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| Zirantun | Feb 11 2013, 05:37 PM Post #1 |
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So in the topic "The Next 500 Years", I was trying to probe for likely scenarios that may fit into a certain set of guidelines that I've been given. Let me elaborate on those guidelines. My friend, to whom I have contracted out certain evolutionary aspects of my own con-world so that I can focus on the cultures, has asked me in return to create him an inter-planetary/intergalactic lingua franca for his own books that take place 1500 years in the future. The history behind his setting involves the initial settlement of a single planet from which most other settlers on other worlds descend. In order to decide which language it was going to be or what languages would factor into the creation of a new language, we had to design on which countries on Earth are the superpowers running around space in the next 100-200 years. He expressed an interest in the idea of a Brazil-India dominated world, in which settlers from both countries and countries that they are economically tied to settle a new world, that we'll just call Kurys to keep his project anonymous. The idea then being to create a Hindi-Portuguese mix language that later becomes the inter-planetary lingua franca Now, I have this language pretty well thought out by now. I wanted to get as close to the name of a Portuguese dialect in Guinea-Bissau called Ziguinchor as possible, so I called it Zuchechor (from Zuquete chora). Zuchechor is a mix language between a dialect of Portuguese that developed on Kurys called Sarraipense, and a primarily Hindi-Marathi based creole with other constituent languages (Arabic, Persian, Balochistani, Swahili) called Bochani (from Bambaiya Hindi bachchan meaning "talk"). All of that is pretty well laid out by now both on my computer and in my head. The question then becomes, how do we get a world with India and Brazil as the dominant superpowers in 100-200 years? |
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| Zirantun | Feb 17 2013, 04:16 PM Post #31 |
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Look, I can't even reply to this. This discussion needs to be over... I attempted to incorporate you out of boredom and out of laziness. I can do this on my own. This is just silly, and you, T.Neo, are a very silly individual... Good day. |
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