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A crappy map of the major branches of Nahtak.

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Tomorrow I'll probably make a diagram of the major branches with isoglosses. Thinner lines represent closer relationships, so that the Thanahapic languages are more closely related to the Western Steppe languages than they are to the Inland Quomonak languages. This doesn't show isoglosses that stretch across subfamilies or are broken by an intervening family. For example, while it's true that Quomonakian and the Western branch have several similarities and are more closely related to each other than either is to, say, Omashaloan, the Southern Coast family is a (divergent, but verifiable) member of the Central branch. Moreover, while the similarities within each larger group are usually tight enough to justify the classification, there is some cross-contamination: for example, while almost all of Quomonakian, Western and Central all share the change *r -> *l, Thanahapic instead merges *l with *ł and keeps *r separate, a state of affairs otherwise only found in Kothavasnic- but it is clearly close enough to the rest of Western to justify considering it as a member.

The Urheimat of the Nahtak languages is probably near the north coast of the Gulf of the East, roughly about the modern border between the Hovapaquequian and Soric languages on the map.

It is likely that my sense of scale is totally off with this map, but whatever. This map also does not represent the modern-day state of affairs, but rather the situation in the early centuries of the 1st millenium, about 0-250. (I am not entirely sure what a modern map would show. It's quite likely that Coastal Quomonak would encompass a far greater range than it currently does, that the Western Steppe languages would have descendents scattered as far as the Mediterranean climate south of the Insular Omashaloan territory on the map, and a couple branches- Thanhapic? North Coast?- would not appear at all.

Shitty map again with macro-branches labeled:

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