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Hadwan languages (was: Re: CONLANG Digest - 22 Oct 2000 to 23 Oct 2000 (#2000-290))

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 24, 2000, 14:44
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.