Thread:Argali1/@comment-26210095-20160921214211/@comment-26210095-20160921215353

It'd be much better to do it on chat, but okay.

Since you're a linguistic fanatic, I thought I'd ask you.

I'm working on a new universe, it's extremely in depth and I want to make a new language for it. Except that'd take way too long. So I'm going to do somthing similar to the LOTR, English will be my "common tongue" and I'll use (relatively obsucre) languages as "stand-ins" for representing foreign languages. I'll use pretty obscure ones, such as Occitan, Romani, and Oscan so it doesn't sound like I'm copying and pasting from other languages.

Trouble is, I need to understand the relations between all of these languages, so I can decide which ones to do where. This is where you come in.

If it isn't too much to ask, could you help me to find suitable languages, as well as give me a concice but detailed history of all Indo-European languages (with emphasis on the smaller, lesser known ones)? I'm more interested in the European side of things then the Indian/Iranian portion, but to include them would be nice.

You game?