Difference between revisions of "The Besokian Languages"

The Besokian languages perhaps are the most self-contradictory in their distribution, once reaching from the Nukna Highlands of Geran to the merchant quarters in every Seligonian city, by the end of the Imperial Era near-extinct save for a handful of idioms—one of them still the most widely spoken language of Elondor, Lécaronian Soskish. As it is the language spoken by most characters in most of my stories, I render it in the language of my writing, originally German, by now English—much like Tolkien reproduced the Westron dialogues in his works as English—, and consequently, the Besokian languages are rendered entirely (except for a few loans in Iilish) as Indo-European: Soskish as West Germanic, with Western Soskish English/German, Eastern Soskish Dutch, and Thárian Soskish Luxemburgish, Reknayan as Russian, and Kattasi as Tocharian B. It is mostly for this fact that I have not given them the attention many of my other families have received, and currently only three of almost forty planned languages are complete enough for a sensible utterance to be made in them.