AkanaWiki:Kečǽnə
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In 2005 Legion had a brilliant idea: he challenged the members of the ZBB to create a proto-language and a set of daughter languages, and then have people try to reconstruct the proto-language from the daughters only. Two teams were organized; Ran created Proto-Isles for the first team, and Radius created Ndak Ta for the second.
No name was given to the planet at the time. I called it “Ranradius” for awhile. Kečǽnə [kɛˈʧæ.nə] is the Fáralo name; the wimpier Adāta name Akana is also used. We still need a name from Team One.
It was mostly my (Zompist’s) pushing that put both teams on the same planet. The major effect was through my nation, Huyfárah, which serves as a sort of linguistic/cultural bottleneck between the Ndak and Proto-Isles spheres. Huyfárah adapted the religion of Siixtaguna, created by Rory, which resulted in some two-way lexical borrowing.
After a hiatus, work on the languages continued with an impressive collection of descendants of Adāta, and then more general work.
Team One
Team One’s work started with Proto-Isles, the protolanguage worked out by Ran. Its original area is not (yet) known, except that it’s in a region of many islands. The daughter languages, their nations, and their creators:
- Thokyunèhòta - Thumapahìthì - Legion - {original description; the version on this wiki is a revised one by Dunomapuka}
- Mûtsipsa' - Mûtsinamtsys - Rory - {backup link}
- Máotatšàli - Tymytỳs - kolyn - {backup links: grammar / lexicon}
- Zele - Zeluzh - brandrinn - {backup link; the version on this wiki is a revised one by Thedukeofnuke}
- Ppãrwak - Ttiruku - Avaja - {backup link}
Team Two
Team Two’s protolanguage was Ndak Ta, created by Radius; its homeland was the Aiwa valley, in the center of the map. Ndak Ta was the language of the ancient Ndak empire; but in modern times the most powerful nation is Huyfárah, to the north.
- Adāta - Rathedān - Dewrad - {backup link}
- Fáralo - Huyfárah - zompist - {original description}
- Ndok Aisô - Axôltseubeu - ghur {backup link; the version on this wiki is a revised one by Dunomapuka}
- Naidda - Kasca - Radius {backup link; the version on this wiki is a revised one by the original author}
- Qedik - Space Dracula