Old World languages and cities, 3000 BC

A companion map to my one of 3000 BC's cultures, matching languages to archaeological cultures. Linguistic reconstruction is always a can of worms, especially in areas without any written evidence whatsoever. Each big color is essentially its own separate family, except for the Afro-Asiatic ones (Akkadian, Amorite, Canaanite, Eblaite, Egyptian, Proto-Berber, Proto-Ethiopian, South Semitic, Subartian Proto-Assyrian are all different shades of green in the Mideast). Paler zones are maybe-yes-maybe-no areas; blank zones are unknown or just big, vague families. All city-name syllables credited to the formidable Tower of Babel project. This map has been made without favoritism and disregarding any nationalist protochronism. Ethnolinguistic comments and suggestions welcome! Feel free to use the map as a resource for Conanesque adventures as well.

The western Mediterranean is under the First Atlantean Empire. Adagh ("mountain") is the capital, a neat little wizards and artists' city of 65,000 (my Atlanteans are quite a bit like the D'ni, come to think of it), its concentric dikes first dug and settled by Iberians but then quickly proto-Guanchized. Underlined cities are provincial capitals; little dots are towns smaller than any of the Asian or Greek ones depicted (3000 BC is pretty early for urbanization: 8,000 counts as a "big city" on this map...). Most of these names are either proto-versions of the Berber names, Proto-Berber names that fit, or just wild guesses based on the later Phoenician names. Gadr ("enclosure") = Agadir, Tagrurt ("walls") = Essaouria, Arṣṣad ("no noise") = Ouarzazate, Hamat ("womb") = Aghmat, Ṣapiw ("flood") = Safi, little Adagh = Adrar, Ṣalah ("nighthawk") = Salé, Lukus = Lixus, Tunga = Tangier. Tiṭṭawin ("eyes") = Tétouan, Hiwart ("lioness") = Tiaret, Buru ("owl") = Algiers. Sirta = Cirta, Begyau ("pierced one") = Béjaïa, Sitṭef ("seizing [the] daughters") = Sétif, Gulgel ("quiet water") = Jijel, Hesagrur ("fire-wall") = Skikda, Habbun ("built[-up] breast [of land]") = Annaba, Sakwali ("plow") = Guelma, Taghradt ("bag") = Souk Ahras. Malha ("salt") = Hadrumetum, Habbun = Bizerte, Mirbat ("pour fast") = Utica, Qarut ("raven") = Carthage, Tabarbart ("going-out") = Sfax, Kabb ("ear of wheat") = Gabès, Fla ("split") = Chott el Djerid, Tibhaskart ("plowed ditches") = Biskra, Igheyaman ("cities") = Germa.

Zhawguli ("wool-spinning" = Motya) is an Atlantean island colony in the Proto-Basque half of the Empire. Barka ("black") = Barcelona, Harriak ("stones") = Cagliari, Lusek ("long," same origin as "Lusitania") = Lisbon, Sasi ("bramble") = Sassari. Shabya ("[mountain's] foot" = Trapani) handles trade with Tyrrhenic Italy (which I gave a toehold in Albania so they can occupy Athens and then be expelled to Lemnos, in accordance with Herodotus) and Iberic Malta (Suryagho, "white mouth"). Italy has the Gaudo Culture, the antecessors of the Apennine Culture, and the IE Remedellans on the Po. Windó ("white") = Vannes is a mere trading post for the bi-coastal pre-Celts, who comprise the megalithic Seine-Oise-Marne and Windmill Hill cultures. The Druids only came in a millennium after these people built Stonehenge.