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the-chattering-tower · 2 years ago

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hey i noticed on your post about Gale + friends, you mention Gale is ‘mapping out’ the North-Plague Talonok dialect, and ik it’s just lore and i’m overthinking it but out of curiosity is it like a sociolinguistic discourse analysis or like a etymological analysis or something else? - 🦇

Oh if you could see how I grinned reading this!!

It's etymology, with a notable reliance on comparative linguistics (both with other Talonok dialects, and with various local languages for loan words) bc Talonok in general tend to be nomadic communities and Plague flocks especially so, so they don't have extensive written records and rely heavily on oral tradition

Hence also Gale's passion for the Proto-Talonok project, since it's overall a very related topic that he can contribute to from the Plague side of things!

#nature and wind talonok communities generally have better written history #not by a landslide bc theyre still constantly on the move but its still Better #gale likes a challenge i guess #ask #anonymous #gale #my lore #a lot of plague and wind talonok words for agriculture are loanwords from longneck #whereas nature talonok got most of the same vocab from centaurs #they uhh. like to argue about this if you put them in vicinity of each other #sornieth linguistics

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