Brilliant and thank youOriginally Posted by Mouse
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Thankyou The_Sleeping_Dragon I will go throught your posts that are very interesting and informative, One thing I was not sure if to adopt only a latin style naming for the whole world so latinizing names as said for example for aztlantia or use both a LAtin for the west and a more local one for the others ... Or perhaps add both like a latinization and an original name under. OR finally go for the classic fantasy style with english labeling like city of , desert of etc...
Sorry to play the devil's advocate here, but I'd like to point out that the 12 900 BP impact hypothesis is speculative, and has been widely criticized. Even if one accepts the theory, I don't believe anyone has suggested a massive flood, let alone one lasting for hundreds of years. Personally, I think the idea remains a bit far fetched. Similarly, the other "catastrophe theories" that link floods and other catastrophic events into specific human cultures or advances in lifestyle (such as animal husbandry), are very speculative, and tend to be lacking in substantial evidence.
One might point out, as an example, that animal domestication has occurred as far back as the domestication of dogs (at least 13 000 BC), and "re-invented" numerous times on numerous continents and locales (such as the domestication of turkey in Mesoamerica ca. 200 BC, or the domestication of the reindeer ca. 3000 BC in northern Eurasia). It is unlikely that a connection exists between animal domestication and any catastrophe event, given that this appears a more-or-less universal practice (btw, these numbers are from wikipedia).
Similarly, the advent of language cannot be connected to adoption of animal husbandry (or similar changes in lifestyle). The reason being that there were (and still are, in some cases) plenty of human populations that have never had any other lifestyle than hunter-gathering (the Inuit, numerous American Indian groups, the San people, to name a few), yet they obviously still possess a language of their own. Similarly, all known human groups have some kind of belief regarding their origin, the origin of the world, and so forth, as well as some system of social laws. Therefore, I would consider all these an essentially base component of any human society, and such structures probably have existed in some form for a very long time indeed.
Last edited by Charerg; 06-10-2017 at 01:34 PM.
Ok Somehow its seeming a little unrealistic to place latin names for the whole world , what you think?
Updated with Version II
The Map features a combination of Latin Toponymy, I also realized an English and a fictional language to create new toponimies in the future, but for now I liked Latin.
I also created a Hypsographic , Biome , Batymetric map.
thersis_geographycal_map_by_n_a_i_m_a-dbbz81x.jpg
Original
Here is the fictional language I was working on they have a resemblance in origin with Earth cultures, but are not the same and when possible I am referring to ancient forms of the languages as Inspiration.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing
I worked on the following :
Aerdian : Equivalent to an Indoeuropean
Aequilan : Equivalent to an - Italic - Latin
Virmanian : Equivalent to a - German
Kaltian : Equivalent to a - Gaulish
Other :
Xorian : Mongol/Turkich
Hyrkan : Scyto/ Sarmatian
Kethan : Egyptian/Copt
Ophirian : Semitic/Arab/Jew/ Aramaic
Bamu : Ancient Bantu
Indran : Sanskrit/Hindu
Yanian : Ancient Chinese
Kangan: Ancient Burmese/Tibetan
Intica: Incan
Ixtec : Aztec
Pacuan : Polinesian
I will base some or many location names on a possible word composition based on those.
Some Projections.
http://orig09.deviantart.net/2d46/f/..._a-dbd93fq.png
I love what you have done here, Naima. The land shapes are excellent and the colours are spot on.
A very nice map! I am impressed by your mastery of this real, almost photographic rendering! Very impressive !
edit : I just wish I could zoom in your map... I'd love to see the details
Thankyou very much.
I have yet to add many names and the legend with the not so easy to read biomes, but I wanted to make them very blended. some are easy to recognize other harder .
Thankyou , you can zoom by going to the link , because the image upload did allow me to attach only a small image.
Even Deviant art doesn't allow me to upload the full res map that is 21 k.
A comment on languages - if you think of maps as being a function of culture, then it makes sense to have them in a single language; on earth we certainly do that! it would be interesting to do a map where the features inside of territory lands were of the language(s) of the people living there, but places where multiple languages overlap might be trickier to space out.
I personally love the idea of taking a natural features map and modifying it to fit the mindsets of different cultures to see what is kept and lost - like how in the US we mark addresses by number and street and the numbers are in order, whereas in Japan they mark addresses by number and block and the numbers are according to which building came first. I think it can be a lens through which you lay out the unspoken perspective of differing cultures.
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