Very WIP. Suggestions and comments would be appreciated>iceberg charts are reddit!Fuck off.
>>17275445Where's Rongorongo?
>>17275445Ancient Belgian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Human_language
>>17275445Just a few off the top of my head:Etruscan (and Lemnian)Ligurian (ancient)TartessianHurrianLydianSogdianJiroft (pre-proto-Elamite?)GandhariOld Khmer
>>17275629The underlying language of Rongorongo is probably just Rapa Nui, which is still spoken nowadays.>>17275802Will definitely add this one as a hypothetical language.>>17275907Thank you. Jiroft in particular is very interesting, I didn't know about it before.
>>17275907some more:Tocharian (Kroranian/Tocharian C is a phantom)PaliAshokan PrakritClassic Mayan/Ch'olti', also Proto-MayanClassical Nahualt and proto-NahuanOld Hungarian/OmagyarBulgar (also Hunnic, Avar, Khazar...)PechenegScythianBactrianKithanWest Baltic (Old Prussian, Old Curonian, Sudovian etc)Gothic languages (Visigothic, Ostrogothic, Vandalic, Crimean Gothic...)Dacian (might be the same as Thracian?)
>>17275802We know, and can know, very little about the specific traits it had, if indeed it existed, but the idea of it isn't obscure; it seems to be the first question to occur to everyone being introduced to historical linguistics.
>>17275445African-Romance
>>17275629the script = language schizo at it again.
Paleo-European language(s)
>>17275907>picwoah, based playstation controller language
>>17275445Got it unlisted, here's the chart with explanations, updated a little:https://icebergcharts.com/i/Historical_Languages>>17276353Indeed. Even reconstructed Proto-Borean words go like "well all we know is this word was a consonant followed by a vowel." Proto-Human is entirely unreconstructable.
