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'''Technoquintlan''' is a far-future version of Terra and [[Tricin]] where travel through wormholes or portals between the two planets is possible. | '''Technoquintlan''' is a far-future version of Terra and [[Tricin]] where travel through wormholes or portals between the two planets is possible. | ||
Population: approximately 17.4 billion (fT 2700) | |||
==Locations of portals== | ==Locations of portals== | ||
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The present day, which we take to be about fT 2700 (or about 2450 AD) still has a slim majority of humans living on Earth and Tricin, but there are still sprawling metropoli on other planets as well. Technoquintlan is a placeholder name for the entire system, and as of now there has been no Interplanetary Union. | The present day, which we take to be about fT 2700 (or about 2450 AD) still has a slim majority of humans living on Earth and Tricin, but there are still sprawling metropoli on other planets as well. Technoquintlan is a placeholder name for the entire system, and as of now there has been no Interplanetary Union. | ||
==Broad demographics== | ==Broad demographics== | ||
Terra and Tricin are the only planets with a good mix of both Terrans and Tricians. Other planets or satellites in the Solar System have the vast majority of inhabitants being ethnically Terran, and similarly for the Grian System having the vast majority of inhabitants being ethnically Trician. | Terra and Tricin are the only planets with a good mix of both Terrans and Tricians. Other planets or satellites in the Solar System have the vast majority of inhabitants being ethnically Terran, and similarly for the other planets or satellites in the Grian System having the vast majority of inhabitants being ethnically Trician. | ||
==Constituent countries== | ==Constituent countries== | ||
This list will also include cities which are not affiliated with any constituent countries. | This list will also include cities which are not affiliated with any constituent countries. | ||
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==Languages== | ==Languages== | ||
===Academic languages=== | ===Academic languages=== | ||
The academic languages of Technoquintlan are | The academic languages of Technoquintlan are Akademiesprache and [[Wug Nlab]]. They are the lingua francas of the academic communities: | ||
* Akademiesprache is spoken by applied mathematicians, chemists, and biologists | * Akademiesprache is spoken by applied mathematicians, chemists, and biologists | ||
* [[Wug Nlab]] is spoken by pure mathematicians, physicists, musicians, and astronomers | * [[Wug Nlab]] is spoken by pure mathematicians, physicists, musicians, and astronomers | ||
Akademiesprache is a Germanic language with Hellenic grammar and morphophonology, and [[Wug Nlab]] is a highly engineered descendant of Schlaub. | Akademiesprache is a Germanic language with Hellenic grammar and morphophonology, and [[Wug Nlab]] is a highly engineered descendant of Schlaub. | ||
===Colloquial languages=== | ===Colloquial languages=== | ||
Most people in Technoquintlan have access to neural chips. As such, they are surgically inserted into the brain when very young, probably when a person is two or three years old. Each linguistic neural chip consists of a dictionary of the language and a grammar guide. The majority of such grammar guides are written in Anglo-Clofabosin though a large portion of the remaining are written in Mandarin. Therefore many people are often trilingual, tetralingual, or even pentalingual. | |||
* ??? | |||
The most spoken languages are: (counting L1, L2, L3, L4, and L5 speakers): | |||
* Anglo-Clofabosin, with 14.2 billion speakers | |||
* ??? 7.40 billion speakers | |||
* ??? 6.71 billion speakers | |||
* ??? 6.49 billion speakers | |||
* ??? 5.51 billion speakers | |||
* ??? 5.40 billion speakers | |||
* ??? 5.13 billion speakers | |||
==Music== | ==Music== | ||