Soi - /soj/: matter, substance, material, component Setvai's gone through a number of origin history changes, but I decided that I'd set it around 50,000 years in the future on a former colony world that got cut of from Earth and the other colonies 5,000 years prior to the age in which modern Setvai is set. I wanted a massive gap between now and when the Setvai live on purpose, and I felt like if there is going to be planetary colonization of the type where modification of entire planets is needed, a few centuries into the future is just not enough time. Technology moves fast, but it often doesn't move as fast as we think in the ways we want it to move... like, we still don't have moon colonies. It also allows me to get away without having to work from an existing Earth language. I'm essentially working from the assumption that you can't reliably reconstruct any language further back than 10,000 years. Even Proto Indo European is conjecture despite a lot of good evidence about what word forms may have been, and the date for that is about 7,000 years or so). So, at about 50,000 years into the future, that's four cycles where any language is going to be so different that what it was is basically obliterated. At the same time, I've never said that the language that Setvai originates from actually came from this dimension. Cheating? Maybe. Easy out? Definitely, but I do what I want.
