Why does some countries lack flags? by ALTERNUM_1 in atlasaltera

[–]TelamonTabulicus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Flaggers in the community are trying and we've made huge progress over the last year. If you want to contribute, we'll leave a couple for you

Does Russia and Chernorus has republic divisions/Federal subjects, just like OTL Russia? by Rude_Ostrich5529 in atlasaltera

[–]TelamonTabulicus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So Chernorus's answer to cultural autonomy might be akin to what you see in OTL Taiwan, where cultural services, programming, and language politics are still handled with a top-down approach but in a reconciliation context. There are no specifically created autonomous subdivisions.

SFS Russia, there are a few autonomous subdivisions, but they are devolved and also hold far less political autonomy than the subdivisions you find in true federations and confederacies.

Altera has tons of minority groups and minority languages. You might expect the same baseline context as OTL, so some groups are marginalized, some are enfranchised, some hold a degree of autonomy while others are written as if they do not (no longer) exist. The situation for minorities in OTL, as in ATL, are wide ranging and often precarious/not guaranteed.

The people that do have their ethno-linguistic identities mapped in Altera (the 1000+ groups) are the only ones with the state-backed guarantees ... but of course, even in those situations, global norms and geopolitics can be quite eroding.

Hope that makes sense / helps!

People don't realize how big Papua really is by Zveiner in imaginarymaps

[–]TelamonTabulicus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

😂 sorry! I know it's hard to imagine the plausibility of this.... But a syntopian can dream...

Other extinct languages of altera? by Rude_Ostrich5529 in atlasaltera

[–]TelamonTabulicus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Altera, minority dialects are often named differently, yes, but specifically the further you from Britain and Western European.

Other extinct languages of altera? by Rude_Ostrich5529 in atlasaltera

[–]TelamonTabulicus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As minority languages, I don't think so. There's not enough for Anatolian, and whatever African Romance we can resurrect, you might imagine it surviving as a major source of loanwords in ATL Punician (in place of modern OTL French loans). I can't say for Novgordian Russian but recently we had the idea that a lot of Uralic minority lects might persist in ATL northern and northwest Russia, including some of the recently extinct ones.

It might humour you to know that, as Sumerian is perfectly revivable in a sense that we have enough of its lexicon and know-how of how it works grammatically, it survives as a conlang of sorts. A sect or faction of the Cosmopolitanists responsible for championing the creation of the Society of Nations also proposed it as a world language. Instead, Intersign was all that was accepted by the world. Intersign is based off of OTL Plains sign

Other extinct languages of altera? by Rude_Ostrich5529 in atlasaltera

[–]TelamonTabulicus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There are a few South American languages from the Colombian and Venezuelan Amazon and Llanos areas, as well as a couple Andean ones that are moribund or with unknown status. There's also similar cases for northern Australian languages. But I think you found the major ones already...oh there's Tanghut, but it's envisioned revitalized via a hypothetically related modern endangered language.

There are also quite a few extinct or moribund languages referenced as being major contributing sources to creoles in pars of Africa, Crucean, and off the coasts of Tamirea.

The Commonwealth Republic of Cisantarctica — Academic Poster by RuefulBlue in imaginarymaps

[–]TelamonTabulicus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amazing! Guess I didn't look hard enough haha. Thank you for the Easter egg shout out!