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Hello all

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I'm Evildea, your God

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And today I want to speak about

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a very new ... or old ...

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depending on your perspective

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language, which I've just uncovered

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So, this film is about the Proto-European language

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but not about a theoretical language which existed

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but about a re-constructed language

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which was created for the game, Far Cry

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Far cry is an adventure game

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which was programmed and published by Ubisoft.

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It made its début on the PlayStation 4 and X-box One

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on the 23rd of February, 2016

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It's the first title in the Far Cry series

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which takes part during the stone age.

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The story is about Takkar

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who at the start is a weapon-less hunter

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and then becomes chief of his tribe

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Everything takes part 10,000 years ago

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In the fictitious land of Oros.

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And now that which most interests me!

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The main writer Keven Shortt

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said that the plan was originally for Far Cry Primal

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to be performed in English

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but active testing proved to the designers

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that English just wasn't suitable

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for the game environment

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The team then contacted linguists

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from the University of Kentucky

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experts on the Proto-European language

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The linguists and couple

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Brenna Reinhart Byrd and Andrew Miles Byrd

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immediately and excitedly started

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working on the new language.

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They created three languages for the game

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Wenja, Udam, and Izila

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all were based on the Proto-European language

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or at least similar to what the linguists

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guess it to be.

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They wanted to create a new language

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which was balanced between

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the authentic Proto-European language

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and at the same time

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an artificial reconstruction.

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In total, they created a grammar and 40,000 words

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for three languages

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Wenja and Udam are grammatically and lexically similar

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but are different in pronunciation.

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Izila, the language of the fire worshippers, is

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grammatically more complex than the other two

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to intentionally indicate the more developed state

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of that tribe.

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The three languages use roots from

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the etymological dictionary of Indo-European languages

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but when a suitable word couldn't be found

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the solution was to

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(1) take them from Latin

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Greek, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, and Hittite languages

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or (2) create them.

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From now, I'll only talk about Wenja

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All the vowels in Wenja are similar to Esperanto

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except in these cases:

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A + Y have the sound ai from "belaj"

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A + W have the sound from the word "aŭ"

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The consonants are more different

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Here are the diferences

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W is equal to the English W

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Similar to the Esperanto word "aŭ" without the A sound

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The letters C + H are equal to CH

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The letters J is equal to G (George)

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The letters S + H are equal to SH

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The Y is equal to Y

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The letters K + W are equal to QU (Quick)

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The letters G + W are equal to GW (Gwen)

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The accent usually falls overn every second syllable

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but not always

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Here are several examples

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And here are the pronouns

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I am MU

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You are TA

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but she, he and it don't have a pronoun

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That one is SA

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We is MAS

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You all is TAN

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They is SAY

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Wenja is Subject-Verb-Object

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But prepositions usually usually fall after

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the pronouns and nouns

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to which they belong

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similar to Chinese

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and function almost like affixes

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and now a few sentences in Wenja

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Go out at night and count the stars

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that is how many years I'll wait for you

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I'm not flirting with you

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I'm just more kind to people

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who are more beautiful than usual

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and that is everything

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If you want to know more

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about this created language for Far Cry

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there are a few links in the description below

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and I'll see you all in the next film

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and if you're not there

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I'll hit you with my bat!