Hadwan languages (was: Re: CONLANG Digest - 22 Oct 2000 to 23 Oct 2000 (#2000-290))
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> | 
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 24, 2000, 14:44 | 
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En réponse à Muke Tever <alrivera@...>:
>
> {1} The tree of Hadwan type languages looks something like this:
>
>                        Proto-Hadwan (middle east/caucasus, centuries BC)
>                             |
>                --------------------------------
>                |                              |
>             Hadwan (Greece, early AD)     [? "eastern"]  (Tibet, China,
> Japan)
>                |
>       -----------------------------------------
>       |                                       |
> (Atlantic) (Iberia, Medit., middle ages)    [? "northern"] (Eastern
> Europe)
>       |
> (Modern Atlantic) (same, contemporary)
>       |
> [? "future"]  (Mars, 500+ years from now)
>       |
> [? "creole"]  (same, Hadwan-English creole)
>
> (parentheses) are languages that have some work on them done
> [brackets] are languages that I know "must" be there, but have no
> information on (yet).
Well, as I see this tree, you're simply creating a languages family equivalent
to the Indo-European family! (and with some common places!) Is this a world
where Indo-European also exists, or is Proto-Hadwan the exact equivalent *there*
of PIE *here*?
Christophe.