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Pkwak

Feb 27, 2024, 2 min read

Pkwak is a Sakrat language spoken on the northern coast of Continent A.

History

Pkwak emerged out of a cluster of Sakrat B languages spoken by migrants to the north coast of Continent A between 1000–500 BP, where they gradually displaced the Pre-Pkwak languages previously spoken in that region. This process was only complete by 300 BP. As a result of this gradual displacement, there was extensive substrate influence of the Pre-Pkwak languages on Pkwak.

Dialects

During the period around the year 300 BP, there were four major dialects of Pkwak:

  • Dialect S
  • Dialect M
  • Dialect G
  • Dialect T

These dialects are often divergent grammatically, not only due to contributions in different proportions of the founding Sakrat B varieties, but also due to influence from different Pre-Pkwak substrate languages.

Later, a Koine Pkwak, which combined features from the different dialects, emerged as a standard in the Pkwak-speaking regions.

Resources

Courtesy of @Mickeal.

Google documents

Videos and livestreams:

Discord discussions

(Note: These are in chronological order, all from before Stream #55 and from outside the official Pkwak channel. I am including the poems here because they are often followed by interesting discussions of morphology, semantics and worldbuilding. Many poems did not have names, so I just used the first line as its title for ease of reference.)

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