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AboutThe peoples of Industria Pacificum have for many tens of thousands of years communicated through complex systems of markings, gestures and vocal expressions, with the languages of the world showing signs of descending from a common ancestor somewhere in central Cymlun millennia ago. As of the present date, there are estimated to be anywhere from 5000 to 7000 languages actively spoken, organised into a few dozen language families. This portal focuses on featuring all such languages and the articles detailing them, with articles for languages themselves, their grammar, creoles and dialects, language families, and so fourth. |
Featured Article Wunal is a gendered, agglutinative language that features inflection for articles and pronouns to achieve prepositional, numerical and even limited descriptive functions, conjugation of verbs for tense, and a free word order facilitated by a several noun cases. In speaking the language, Wunal is often mentioned by native speakers of Atraelish, or any of the analogously soft Amleian languages, as harsh and uncompromising. Grammatically however, Wunal is regarded - specifically by many contemporary western linguists - as an efficient and largely intuitive language, with a great allowance for freedom of expression and descriptive capability that far outstrips the common languages of the western and even old worlds... (read more) |
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