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.

A basic highway network for Suvuma. While I have not drafted a railroad network yet, I do have some ideas in mind. As for the handful of disconnected trunk roads interspersed throughout the country, I based it off an idea about a highway expansion proposal that was either unfinished, stopped abruptly, or never received enough funding to be completed. Let me know your thoughts. Geoc3ladus (talk) 17:04, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

I really like this proposal, although I think Suviliana should be fully connected to at least one of the other major cities with a motorway. I particularly appreciate/support Port Thunder being fully disconnected from anywhere else. --User:Lithium-Ion | [1] (talk) 18:34, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

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)

Completely agreed about these proposal (highway and railway). I like to compare it to Amazonia and Pantanal regions, and seems realistic to me. -- BMSOUZA (talk) 12:10, 1 March 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 | [2] (talk) 02:56, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

I think that this map is great! Maybe there could be some kind of pidgin between those northern languages and Ingerish? --Kyunzi (talk) 11:58, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Lithium, about adding Papuan languages, I believe that having 3 different language families in Suvuma might be a bit of overload, so I ask you to clarify how we would introduce Papuan Languages. Kyunzi, refering to your idea of Pigdin, I do believe that Ingrean would be the oficial lingua franca of Suvuma, so there might be minority pigdin languages in each region. Davieerr (talk) 20:04, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

Hi, how does the proposal for a batch of Dravidian languages in Suvuma coexist, derive from or integrate with the same languages in North Archanta?

/wangi (talk) 10:50, 1 March 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)

If we are to take the linguistic map into consideration, Pembasa and Khoris were both very centered on the Dravidian side of the island, and probably the most populated, shifting the capital to a more central and less populated region to take into account both cultural regions. Davieerr (talk) 20:06, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

Possible Izaki - "Japonic" influence on Suvuma

I am following the developments on Suvuma Island with interest. Let me share with you a possible contribution... I imagine that Izaland and all the soon to be Japanese nations were important trading nations, like the Netherlands with the East Indies. In fact, Izaland still has Equatorial Izaland in central Archanta. As you can see on the attached map, I was thinking about some possible commercial colonization by Izaland and the Kingdom of UL30c (which used to control the entire southern block of S.E. Uletha, from Belphenia to Yosen). These cities on Suvuma would have served either as intermediate stops for trade to Tarephia and S.W. Uletha, and also for the exploitation of some local resources (rubber, spices, etc.). I am only thinking of some post cities, similar to Goa in India or Malacca in Malaysia for Portugal. So today the linguistic influence would be close to zero, but some Izaki/Japanese influences in architecture and urban design could still be present. What do you think? --Izaland Terramorphing Committee (talk) 09:51, 1 March 2025 (UTC)