Lahob languages: Difference between revisions

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* ''Šlokhowdeš'' is an isolate among the larger Lahob family, spoken in a hilly area in the Baran river basin in north-central Greater Evandor. Probably it is the only surviving language of a formerly larger branch.

* ''Chlouvānem languages'' include [[Chlouvānem]] and all its descendants. Despite being by far the most spoken of the whole family and having the longest documented history, it took a long time to recognize the Lahob origin of Chlouvānem, due to many factors (including the long distance (some 10,000 km) from the Lahob homeland, the enormous lexical influence of other languages, the genetic difference between the Chlouvānem and other Lahob speakers (though mainly due to interbreeding with other peoples) and the fact all other Lahob languages have a very different morphology, changed in more than 5000 years; Chlouvānem is morphologically extremely close to Proto-Lahob).

Excluding Chlouvānem (and its daughter languages) with more than 1.4 billion speakers, the other Lahob languages are fairly small by number of speakers, with about 200,000 speakers collectively, 40% of which speaking Łaȟoḇszer. Other relatively large languages are Tundra Pwaɬasd (about 21,000), Yełeshian Lawo (about 20,000), and Coastal Tlengast (about 17,000).

[[File:Lahob languages.png|thumb|Distribution of Lahob branches in Evandor and Márusúturon.]]

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 * ''Šlokhowdeš'' is an isolate among the larger Lahob family, spoken in a hilly area in the Baran river basin in north-central Greater Evandor. Probably it is the only surviving language of a formerly larger branch.
 * ''Chlouvānem languages'' include [[Chlouvānem]] and all its descendants. Despite being by far the most spoken of the whole family and having the longest documented history, it took a long time to recognize the Lahob origin of Chlouvānem, due to many factors (including the long distance (some 10,000 km) from the Lahob homeland, the enormous lexical influence of other languages, the genetic difference between the Chlouvānem and other Lahob speakers (though mainly due to interbreeding with other peoples) and the fact all other Lahob languages have a very different morphology, changed in more than 5000 years; Chlouvānem is morphologically extremely close to Proto-Lahob).
+Excluding Chlouvānem (and its daughter languages) with more than 1.4 billion speakers, the other Lahob languages are fairly small by number of speakers, with about 200,000 speakers collectively, 40% of which speaking Łaȟoḇszer. Other relatively large languages are Tundra Pwaɬasd (about 21,000), Yełeshian Lawo (about 20,000), and Coastal Tlengast (about 17,000).
 [[File:Lahob languages.png|thumb|Distribution of Lahob branches in Evandor and Márusúturon.]]