Re: Ethnologue.
From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
Date: | Thursday, August 31, 2000, 3:07 |
Okay, here's Rokbeigalmki, with population demographic and religious
tidbits included.
Rokbeigalmki [RKB] ( < RokvméíGálmki "[language] of the Riders of the
Waves" ) Unknown number of speakers, probably a few hundred thousand,
almost all in the Southern Hemisphere of Aambalá (Arda), primarily
concentrated in the area of the island of Tólosed (Itahhalôsednun), with
small scattered settlements along the western coastline of Anti-Valinor
(the Sun-Rising Lands), the south-eastern coast of the Dark Lands
(Southern Middle-Earth Proper), the entire habitable range of the shores
of the South Land, and islands in the seas bounded by these continents.
Very little dialectal variation - the larger and newer homelands are
generally less conservative in colloquial speech, but all varieties of
Rokbeigalmki are completely mutually comprehensible. Very closely
related to the language of the Drughu (Drughmki), and much more distantly
related to Taliska and other Mannish tongues of Middle-Earth. Many
lexical items borrowed from Proto-Elven and Nandorin. Written in an
isolate alphabetic script, although historically morphemographs were
experimented with for a time. The majority of the Rokbeigalm are human,
with substantial elven and mixed-descent minorities. Fiercely
monotheistic with animist leanings. Alternate universe (see: Tolkien).
-Stephen (Steg)
"You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment
that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand
miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light.
Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have
limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there."
~ _jonathan livingston seagull_