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Origin of Your Nation's language(s)

Postby Corunia and Mironor » Tue Nov 25, 2014 7:25 pm

How did the language(s) of your nation come to be? And I mean in RP, not IRL.

Corunian evolved from a dialect of Late Middle English.
Mironorese is a language isolate, and originally came from northeast-central Atia (fictional continent comparable to Asia), but the speakers of it ended up in southwest Eurovium (fictional continent comparable to Europe). The southern dialects suffered intense foreign influence, while the northern dialects didn't have as much influence (while the north and south dialects are still mutually intelligible)
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Postby Tuskamo » Tue Nov 25, 2014 9:54 pm

The origins of our official language: English and our co-official language: French should be able to easily be looked up. However, Ancient Polar, a language spoken, read, and written by the government to keep certain topics confidential, can have it's roots traced.

Ancient Polar is as ancient as it can be. The language dates back to the early start of the Native Tuskamocans, who were Eskimos, who were active almost five thousand years ago. When Captain Tusk Chekov (later the king of Tuskamo) traveled to the land, which would later be known as Tuskamo, he slowly learned how to communicate with the Native Tuskamocans through the language only language the natives knew of: Ancient Polar. And as Tuskamo was being slowly founded, King Tusk realized that knowing how to speak and write of this language could help the Kingdom Council deal with security, especially during the times of the Lava War, and the language's rarity among the Tuskamocan citizens and everyone else in the world. It gradually became a requirement to at least know the basics of speaking Ancient Polar for the important members of the Kingdom Council.
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Postby Evethia » Tue Nov 25, 2014 11:42 pm

Evethian (which sounds like a mixture of Swedish and Dutch) is a language that came together from a mixture of sources and evolved over a period of centuries. Linguists theorize that the basis of the language can be found in ancient tribal dialects, dating as far back as the region has been inhabited. After the successful conquest of Evethia by the long-forgotten Empire, however, Evethian tribal languages fell out of speaking as the newly conquered peoples were made to speak the language of the Empire. Following the Revolution against the Empire, Evethians turned to their old, native tongue as a sign of heritage and identity, though it is likely that the language evolved further, adapting with grammar and word choice from the Imperial tongue. Now, in the modern time, Evethian as a language is a portal back to the ancient peoples that long ago settled this land, adapted with more modern languages, but retaining its old world charm.
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Postby Arlenton » Wed Nov 26, 2014 12:13 am

Modern Arlenish has come from the old Arlenish language that was been spoken by the first Arlen settlers who came to what is now Arlenton.

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Postby Elvion » Wed Nov 26, 2014 12:30 am

Since the primary mode of communication is telepathy, that ability developed as our species evolved the mental capacity to employ this mode of communication.

The Elvonine language itself is as old as the Elvonine species itself (several billion years), but it is generally assumed Elvonine, or its linguistic ancestor(s), originated as the language of the inhabitants of the area of Vallens, our capital city.

Many of the Great Houses also have their own private languages used among their members.
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Postby YellowApple » Wed Nov 26, 2014 1:22 am

YellowApplan English, unsurprisingly enough, originated from English (specifically the American dialect(s) thereof, particularly Pacific Southwestern/Northwestern, Rocky Mountain, Southwestern, and Upper Midwestern), which in turn originated as a West Germanic language with strong North Germanic and Gallo-Romance influences.

Equestrian, on the other hand, is a Harric language. As the two official languages of YellowApple, Inc., both (YellowApplan) English and local dialects of Equestrian have seen bidirectional influence from one another, exchanging significant amounts of lexical and grammatical characteristics.

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Postby Tolmakia » Wed Nov 26, 2014 3:57 am

Because of Tolmakians merging with the Angles for 1000 years, the origin of the language of Tolmakians is almost not known. It is believed to either have been created, and influenced by the English language; or to have existed before the incorporation of Tolmakians, and been modified.
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Postby The Calrian Republic » Wed Nov 26, 2014 8:30 am

Spanish (of course) originated in Spain, the country of our old colonial masters.

The indigenous languages Almori and Xuna are languages of the Izina language family, and are the two surviving languages of that family's Calrian branch. Almori and Xuna are both descendants of the Middle Calrian language spoken between the 13th and 17th centuries. Middle Calrian was spoken by both the Almor and Xuna ethnic groups, and was a contemporary of relatives Sugir and Yunala (spoken by ethnicities of the same name), but effectively ceased to exist when the Almors adopted the Latin alphabet introduced by Spanish missionaries in replacement of the native logographic system that the Xuna continued to use. At the time, the two burgeoning languages were at either end of a dialect continuum, but they lost mutual intelligibility as the Almors assimilated the Sugir ethnic group and the Xuna assimilated the Yunala ethnic group, taking lexical and grammatical influences from both.

The other extant indigenous language, Polmani, is a language isolate, with no known genetic relations to any other language. It has taken some lexical and grammatical influences from its neighboring languages, but otherwise has been its own language since at least the 11th century with little evolution and large dialectal variation. In addition, it never used the logographic system of the other Calrian languages, preferring its own alphasyllabary until the 19th century, when it adopted the Latin alphabet by force.

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Postby Dinake » Wed Nov 26, 2014 8:39 am

Dinakese is a language isolate, not generally considered a member of the amerindian group. As far as linguists can tell, it's always been there, in some form or another.
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Postby Gorgashia » Wed Nov 26, 2014 10:38 am

Modern Plains/Mountain-Gorgashi developed over time from the natives that wandered into Gorgashia thousands of years ago. It's basically Amerindian.

Ameri-Gorgashian is basically adopted straight from the Ameri (French) settlers in Gorgashia and thus finds it's origins in Amerique.

Métis is basically a fusion of Plains/Mountain-Gorhashi (it borrows more from Plains-Gorgashi though) that borrows Ameri characters when used in writing.
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Postby Greater Weselton » Wed Nov 26, 2014 11:29 am

German evolved from West Germanic languages.
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Postby Germanahii » Wed Nov 26, 2014 11:32 am

Coporean originated from Biian dialects when all the smaller Bii tribes merged together. Later after the Bii takeover it became the main language of Germhanahii

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Postby Estenia » Wed Nov 26, 2014 11:39 am

Traditionaly, Estenian language was adopted by the Bratislavan. Yet again, no, traditions are wrong enough to trick us off. Estenian language has its origin from the land of Estenia, first spoken on 1509 when it became the nation's national language, it was easy to be learnt. Inventor of the language was King Andrei II Ganeshi so he could undercover himself from his enemies.
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Postby Gavania » Wed Nov 26, 2014 11:40 am

It is its own form of Gaelic mixed with elements of German and english. It originated from years of change.
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Origin of Your Nation's language(s)

Postby Singhla » Wed Nov 26, 2014 11:48 am

Singhla gained independence from British India in 1895 (roleplay), So There are many languages in Singhla alone.
English Is the main language in South Central Singhla. Towards the east . the state of Nyongesa Damur(Largest State of Singhla, Located to the east and northeast of the Capital State, Damur Means North in Singhlanese) Speaks a language Called Nyongese Singhlanese which was adapted as one of the countries languages, Towards the deep south, Most of the south speaks English, but The Twin state of Nyongesa Damur, Nyongesa Damar(Damar Means South) Speak Nyongese, but with a mixture of other indigenous languages. The State Of Cape Anastasia speaks English as well as Dutch as the cape was occupied by The Netherlands in 1899(roleplay again lel). The biggest region of Singhla which is the Sashmaki Coast, speaks Only English, although People of Nyongesa Damar have moved to Shamik(another state). But The Official Language of The Kingdom of Singhla is English.


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Postby Elejamie » Wed Nov 26, 2014 12:20 pm

English (arguably the official language of Elejamie) and Spanish (mostly spoken in the southeast of the country) came from their West Germanic and Latin (respectively) language roots.

Old Iyilim (Ol Iyilim, "Ohl Ee-yeel-eem") was a language isolate, spoken by the Iyilim who resided (and continue to reside, although some have moved to the mainland) on the islands of Rosetta and Bruirn. When English settlers landed in Rosetta in 1881, there was a massive language barrier; as a compensation, a new language - New Iyilim (Niu Iyilim, "Nee-ah Ee-yeel-eem, a pidgin language that eventually became a creole - was created the following year. Although Old Iyilim went extinct in 1905 following the death of its last speaker Royal Inaetar ("Roh-yehl Ee-nay-tehr") - as virtually everyone else had adopted the new language - New Iyilim (which dropped the "New" prefix in 1907) continues to thrive to this day, with around 20,000 people speaking it as a first language.
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Postby Corinthi » Wed Nov 26, 2014 1:25 pm

To go over all of the origins of all of the languages in Cornithi would take more time and space than possible. The Holy Empire of Corinthi consists of four-hundred solar systems and about one-thousands sentient species', each with their own cultures and languages.

The origin of 'Basic', the political and legal language used throughout the Empire, has it's origin on 'Earth', where the Holy Empire began in the year 2098 AD, almost three thousand years ago.

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Postby Rhodesia » Wed Nov 26, 2014 1:33 pm

Everyone knows – or should know, especially if they speak it – the history of the English language. I shan't repeat it.

The various African languages spoken in Rhodesia actually have greater diversity to them than European languages do and one of them especially, San (also known as Khoi), is thought to be one of the oldest still spoken languages in the world.
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Postby Avaerilon » Wed Nov 26, 2014 2:04 pm

(Since far too many languages are native to Avaerilon, I'll spare you the misery and just talk about one :p )

Avaerilonian (Avaeriled) is a Celtic language of the Fereldic branch, and traces its origins to Classical Fereldonian, spoken from around 8000 B.C.. By then, significant number of Sindarin-speaking elves were present in Fereldan, and large numbers of Fereldic humans speaking Fereldonian were present in Arnlor (the first humans of Avaerilon originated in Fereldan, and the first elves in Arnalor), so mixing of languages was a natural occurrence. Principally, Fereldonian in some areas began to show signs of Sindarin influences in sound changes, orthography and initial consonantal mutations. By around 5000 B.C., these changes had created a language entirely distinct from Fereldonian, although clearly related. Now we refer to this language as Avaerilonian, but that term was not used until coined by Arthur in the 8th Century AD, and before then was simply referred to as the Western Tongue. It became the main language of the kingdom of Nyrmenor and of Gondor, too, and began to enjoy status a a sort-of lingua franca by the various rulers of the kingdoms present in the realm. It was also adopted by diplomats, mages, poets and other luminaries, who increased its popularity among the peoples of modern-day Avaerilon.
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Postby Rhodesia » Wed Nov 26, 2014 3:15 pm

Avaerilon wrote:(Since far too many languages are native to Avaerilon, I'll spare you the misery and just talk about one :p )

Avaerilonian (Avaeriled) is a Celtic language of the Fereldic branch, and traces its origins to Classical Fereldonian, spoken from around 8000 B.C.. By then, significant number of Sindarin-speaking elves were present in Fereldan, and large numbers of Fereldic humans speaking Fereldonian were present in Arnlor (the first humans of Avaerilon originated in Fereldan, and the first elves in Arnalor), so mixing of languages was a natural occurrence. Principally, Fereldonian in some areas began to show signs of Sindarin influences in sound changes, orthography and initial consonantal mutations. By around 5000 B.C., these changes had created a language entirely distinct from Fereldonian, although clearly related. Now we refer to this language as Avaerilonian, but that term was not used until coined by Arthur in the 8th Century AD, and before then was simply referred to as the Western Tongue. It became the main language of the kingdom of Nyrmenor and of Gondor, too, and began to enjoy status a a sort-of lingua franca by the various rulers of the kingdoms present in the realm. It was also adopted by diplomats, mages, poets and other luminaries, who increased its popularity among the peoples of modern-day Avaerilon.

Is Avaeriled a conlang or just a renaming of another language?
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Postby Anollasia » Wed Nov 26, 2014 3:18 pm

Anollasian evolved from a mix of Turkish and English being spoken by rural dwellers in the early 1800s.

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Postby Thylacinia » Wed Nov 26, 2014 3:19 pm

From our factbook (IIwiki):

The most commonly used language in our nation, Thylasyns /ˈtɛi.lɐ.ˌsɛins/, is a West Germanic language spoken in Thylacinia and its colonial empire. It is an offshoot of several Dutch dialects introduced by explorers and settlers from Dutch-speaking lands and adopted by the Thylacines, and has gradually begun to develop independently as a language in its own right. Hence, historically, it is a daughter language of Dutch, and is still referred to in informal contexts by its speakers as Kerkduits (Historically Church-Dutch, now taken to mean Church-German). (OOC: Thylasyns is a clone of Afrikaans)

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Postby Abidawe » Wed Nov 26, 2014 5:51 pm

The national language of Abidawe is Abida and it is spoken by 100% of the population. It was derived from a mix of many major languages in the nation and created by a small sect who called themselves the "Åbëdîs". They petitioned the government to make this language nationally spoken and bring it into every school and were listened to.
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Postby Themiclesia » Wed Nov 26, 2014 5:54 pm

Pulian, the court language that nobody speaks as a first language, is an isolated member of the Nostratic superfamily.
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