Earth'

Earth-Prime, as in "apostrophe-like thing", not "primary". Not as much as a conworld as much as a place to dump phonology sketches on. Regardless, they have quite a bit of interaction so some fleshing-out is inevitable.

Ruff divergence outline:

• "Present day" is around 15000 BCE by absolute chronology. Highest level of technology is mostly mid 1800sy, more advanced in eg. material sciences (rudimentary quantum physics experimentally going on spectroscopy, theoretically far behind) but less advanced in eg. geography & astronomy (1600s-ish).
• Homo sylvatica, on the general level of development of H. erectus, survives in northern woodlands of continental Eurasia as well as a separate subspecies in southeast Asia.
• A possible third hominid species survives in southern Africa?

Project summary

Name	Status	World-internal size	Areal(ish) features contained	Location
Genjax	Sketch	Single language, part of a large family (Mid-Sahel ~ upper Zambezi)	Labiopalatals, no /m/, small vowel system	around Serengeti?
Nilotic'	Sketch	Major family; possibly distantly related to Caucasian'	/tθ kx/; implosivs (West); voiceless nasals (Egyptian'); /j+ j-/, ejectivs & uvulars (South)	All the way along the Nile, eastern Sahara
Zithromax	Very sketch	Major family	Unitary splosivs & prenasals	Let's say Western Sahara
Univax	Sketch	Single language	Allophonic uvulars, stable palatal stop, interdentals, noncontrastiv voicing, voiceless nasals, mid vowel harmony	North Africa
Ouiqál	Beginnings	Notable; family size undecided	Voiceless nasals	Anatolia, originates from SW Central Asia (due to Altaic' expansion)
East Caucasian'	Postulated	Minor family - possibly related to SC'
South Caucasian'	Very sketch	Major but geographically limited family	Clicks (lost in some sub-branches), vricativs, tones, monosyllabic tendency	Caucasus & Levant
Transcaspian'	Very sketch	Small but old family	Palatalization, labialization, pharyngealization, …	West-central Asia
Altaic'	Sketch+	Major family	Uvulars, labial-velars (East); emphatics (West)	Dispersed from Central Asia
Persian'	Sketch++	Medium-sized family	Uvulars; tones, lhaterals, vricativs & multiple sonorant sets (modern branch)	From Persia eastwards (historically also Levant)
Klusterax	Sketch+	Small family	Loose phonotactics, non-contrastiv voicing	Southeast Asia (need to pin down better)
Battlax	Sketch	Currently medium-sized, formerly major family	Vricativs, no /p/; brief /kx/ (branch 3)	NW India & therearound
Sahax	Sketch	Part of a small, fractured family	Vricativs, not keen on labial stops, /u/, /e/;	Woodlands of India
Austric'	Sketch+	Major family of Southern Asia	Small sound inventories; ablaut
Classical Chinese'	Sketch	"Classical Chinese". You do the math.	Polysynthetic, /ʃ/ w/o /s/	Gee, I have no idea… :)
Japonic'	Sketch	Small, formerly medium-sized family	/ɬ/	Coastal East Asia
Telefax	Sketch	Small family	Implosivs, lhaterals, nasal vowels	North India? North Africa?

Sprachbund symmary

• Rare POAs
  • Interdentals: central Sahara to East Africa, ATM
  • Pharyngeals/emphatics: NW Asia
  • Labiovelars: Himalaya(ish)
  • Lhaterals: NW India, …
  • Front rounded vowels: Indonesia, Indochina (feat. vowel harmony), East Himalayan foothills
• Rare MOAs
  • Voiceless nasals: East Mediterranean (limiting line: Black Sea ~ Libya)
  • Clicks: Caucasus
• Odd phonemes or holes
  • No /p/ or even /b/: Southern India
  • No or few nasals: Congo
• Other phonetic stuff
  • Contour tones: Caucasus, Levant, the Indus valley to some extent
  • Register tones: (??)