Earthy Language » Culture http://www.earthylanguage.com Sat, 22 May 2010 23:59:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The Ancestral Culture http://www.earthylanguage.com/2010/04/the-ancestral-culture/ http://www.earthylanguage.com/2010/04/the-ancestral-culture/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:51:00 +0000 Brent http://www.earthylanguage.com/?p=691 Continue reading →]]> The Ancestral language was, of course, the creation of the Ancestral culture, that prehistoric but in no way primitive civilization which lies at the root of mankind’s modern family tree. It displays, for the most part, the characteristics of any earthy language, but the unique circumstances of its development undoubtedly explain several of its more unusual features.

First and foremost, the Ancestral language was a work of art that was, like music or dance, consciously and/or unconsciously shaped by its creators to reflect its native habitat — prehistoric South Asia. I believe this fact explains, for example, Ancestral’s very large consonant inventory, which could be used to convey (within the limits of the human vocal system) many of this environment’s unique sounds.

Second, the Ancestral language developed in isolation, with no apparent influence from any other human language. I believe this fact explains Ancestral’s high degree of regularity. Fortunately for us, this makes Ancestral a relatively easy language to learn.

Last but not least, at the time South Asia was very much a hunter-gatherer’s paradise, not without its dangers but with fairly few day-to-day challenges. I believe this fact explains Ancestral’s semantic preoccupation with the natural cycles of evolution, growth, and decay, as expressed in its vocalic patterns.

All this is not say that Ancestral was a static creation, fixed and unchanging. My initial attempts at the internal reconstruction of Pre-Ancestral suggest, for example, that it had three vowels, not five. Like any other natural language, Ancestral evolved over time in response to its speakers’ ever-changing circumstances. And thereby hangs a tale.

]]> http://www.earthylanguage.com/2010/04/the-ancestral-culture/feed/ 0 The Department Of Culture http://www.earthylanguage.com/2009/08/the-department-of-culture/ http://www.earthylanguage.com/2009/08/the-department-of-culture/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:03:27 +0000 Brent http://www.earthylanguage.com/?p=345 Infrastructure

  • Arts Center
  • Cultural Environments
  • Cultural History Center
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  • Culture

Feigned History Museum

  • Explorers’ Club
  • Secret Passages
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  • Art Gallery
  • Ballroom
  • Canteen
  • Comedy Club
  • Commissary
  • Concert Hall
  • Country Dance Club
  • Dance Theater
  • Fiction Library and Bookstore
  • Jazz Club
  • Latin Dance Club
  • Magic Club
  • Movie Theater
  • Photography Gallery
  • Pop Dance Club
  • Publishing House
  • Radio Stations
  • Sculpture Gallery
  • Shakespearean Theater
  • Studio Store
  • Television Studios
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  • Culture

Infrastructure

  • B-26
  • Flashman’s Britain
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  • Culture

Infrastructure

  • Cultural History Globe
  • Anthropology Lab
  • Archaeology Lab
  • Linguistics Lab
  • Mythology Lab
  • Endangered Languages Project
  • Genetic Linguistics Project
  • Epigraphy Project
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  • Culture

Afro-Asiatic Quarter

  • Arabic Palace
  • Bedouin Tent
  • Berber
  • Egyptian Palace
  • Hebrew

Altaic Quarter

  • Mongolian Yurt
  • Turkish Ottoman Palace

Australian Quarter

  • Australian Dreamtime
  • Papuan Treehouse

Austronesian Quarter

  • Dayak Long House
  • Polynesian Village

Basque Quarter

  • Basque Village

Kra-Dai Quarter

  • Thai

Indo-European Quarter

  • Celtic Otherworld
  • Germanic Mead Hall
  • Greek
  • Italic Villa
  • Slavic

Niger-Congo

  • Bantu

Sino-Tibetan Quarter

  • Chinese
  • Tibetan

Uralic Quarter

  • Finnish Farm
  • Hungarian Castle
  • Samoyed Camp
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  • Medical Center
  • Spiritual Center
  • Sports Center
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  • Aerobics Studio
  • Archery Range
  • Basketball Court
  • Billiards Room
  • Bowling Lane
  • Cricket Field
  • Diving Pool
  • Dojo
  • Football Pitch
  • Golf Course
  • Olympic Swimming Pool
  • Olympic Water Polo Pool
  • Polo Field
  • Pool Room
  • Recreational Pool
  • Rock Climbing Wall
  • Sauna
  • Scuba Certification Pool
  • Scuba Resort
  • Softball Field
  • Shooting Range
  • Skating Rink
  • Ski Resort
  • Spa
  • Sporting Goods Store
  • Sports Bar
  • Sports Bar
  • Surfing Beach
  • Tennis Court
  • Volleyball Court
  • Waterslide
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  • Health

Infrastructure

  • Buddhist Temple
  • Christian Cathedral
  • Hindu Temple
  • Islamic Mosque
  • Jainist Temple
  • Jewish Synagogue
  • Shinto Shrine
  • Taoist Temple
  • Cemetery
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