The Origins of Soliani

MIR Barker was a professor of South Asian languages at the University of Minnesota for many years. In addition to his linguistics work, which included work on the Klamath language, and then on Urdu,. Professor Barker invented his own language called Tekumel or Tekumel. And so in 1975 he published a game much in the same vein as Dungeons and Dragons called Empire of the Petal Throne. He created an intricately detailed world with a massive history to it and a language that everyone was both amazed and enchanted by.