Gracchus wrote:Also, in the language section of the Dorvish people, it states that they speak Russian and Bulgarian - Terra already has Russian, it's called
Rodshya (see
http://particracy.wikia.com/wiki/Terran_Language_Families#Delic) and it is spoken in Trigunia and has been for some thousand years or so. Also, linguistically these languages make no sense on Artania given that they are not related to each other. It would be like speaking Chinese and Bantu in the same country. If I could propose a change to languages a bit closer; such as either Low German, Frisian, Danish, or some sort of Dutch but keeping their in-game names. Just a suggestion.
I'm next door in Kirlawa
and I remember our neighbour Dorvik having had some Scandinavian / Nordic influences, long ago (probably before the wiki articles were written).
If you're interested in a second culture and language with some relation to German, may I suggest reviving Nordic, please (whether Danish or other)?
As for Russian, the continent of Keris is pretty much our Eastern Europe, with Russian or Ukrainian in Trigunia, Latvian in Dolgava, and Romanian in New Endralon.
Terra does already have a Nordic nation over in Kazulia, but I feel that adding (or rather restoring) another one would be fine.
OOC Earth has five or six -- Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Finland (although Finland's language is starkly different, being not only non-Germanic, but non-Indo-European) and the Faroe Islands (definitely Nordic, but their total population is only fifty thousand).
I feel that this would clearly be more appropriate than adding another Dutch nation in Dorvik. I've been here for three and a half years, in Dorvik's southeastern neighbour, and I can't remember any past Dutch influences at all in Dorvik ... Terra already has a
very Dutch nation in Vanuku, where there is currently room for six additional parties, for players who would like to join a Dutch nation ... and OOC Earth has only one fully independent Dutch nation anyway (Flanders has a little autonomy but is far from fully independent, and in South Africa the Boers are a minority).
Dutch might be related slightly more closely to German than the Nordic languages are, but nevertheless they're all still Germanic.
Better yet, many OOC Nordic places have names ending in -vik, such as Iceland's capital Reykjavik, Norway's towns Larvik and Gjøvik and Narvik and Leirvik, Sweden's towns Örnsköldsvik and Västervik, and the Faroese towns Klaksvik and Hoyvik, among many others.
Looking at these, Dorvik would fit right in perfectly.