Collab talk:Suvuma

In this page, we will discuss a few important topics for the progress of Suvuma, including language disposision, Capital Layout and main highway and railway infrastucture

Highways and Railways

Below, I have annexed my idea for the distribution of main highways and secondary highways around the island, together with railway infrastucture, as you can see, I have proposed that the railway infrastucture doesn't connect, the reason behind it is considering the colonial past of Suvuma, where the two colonies would not have a unified reason to have a railway line from the southern half to the northern one.

Enter below your proposals and opinions.

Discussion

I think the railways being separate could work. Perhaps there were efforts post-independence to connect the rail lines, but due to the lack of developments and the high costs of transporting people across the island, which perhaps won't see much demand, such efforts were abandoned. Besides, it's likely the rail lines were built mainly to transport goods than people. It's even possible many of the rail lines got decommissioned in favour of new roads and developments.--Zhenkang (talk) 06:31, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Language

iiEarth proposed this map of linguistic influences over, I will ask everyone to give their opinion of this map to see if it is a consensus.

I never know much about languages but this looks good, I'd just like to propose that perhaps some of the Papuan languages could be used especially in interior areas. --User:Lithium-Ion | [1] (talk) 02:56, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Planned Capital

Below, I open the discussion for proposals of the planned capital of Suvuma, Suviliana. Located in UL33e-12

This is partially more just a starting observation, but considering the central location that seems to be in a place that otherwise would be sparsely populated and not in any major language group, seems worth thinking about how that might have shaped the choice for the capital, when it was placed there, and the style of design/architecture/planning that followed. Seems like the location/setup would be heavily influenced by the political and cultural realities of the country. Ernestpkirby (talk) 03:09, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

It also depends when the capital is built. To me it seems likely to be built some time post-independence, as a "neutral" location to try unite the island and bring more developments into the interior, like how Indonesia is planning to move its capital to one of the less developed islands.--Zhenkang (talk) 06:27, 27 February 2025 (UTC)