Western languages

From: Peter Larsen <plarsen_at_uri.edu>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 16:20:31 -0400


At 07:01 AM 10/9/2003 -0400, Peter Metcalfe wrote:

me:
> >It's kind of hard to
> >imagine this with characters representing sounds or syllables,
>
>There's actually two examples, both which have been mooted in the past.

         OK, this amplifies the point -- we don't need to appeal to a lot of glyph-using to explain differences in understanding Western religious texts. Different sects can have different allegorical/technical understanding of the texts, different cultures will pronounce them differently, etc. Which raises the question -- are services held in mixed languages in the West? Would a Liturgist, perhaps, use ritual language (in "Classical Western") for much of the ceremony, but relate a story or sermon in whatever common language or dialect the local people happen to speak?

> > Consider the idea further derided -- surely Sartari is descended
> >from Stormspeech, Pelorian from some ur-Solar tongue, Western from
> >Brithini, etc.
>
>Western does not arise from Brithini as the Brithini are a late development.
>All the languages of the west arises from the Spoken Language of the
>Kachasti.

         In any case, Western (both classical and common) is descended from something that is not "Proto-Human," right? I mean, the various peoples of Glorantha, even those who seem to be one "race," may have demonstrably different origins (created by Yelm, descended form Orlanth, etc)....

Peter Larsen

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