Talk:Caveballs/@comment-32440229-20180330193719/@comment-64757-20190209201755

Your idea is interesting; however, I would offer the following critique:

Turkic, Uralic, Indo-Iranians, Semitic/Middle Eastern. Those are language families associated with specific ethnic groups. Turkic and Uralic people range from Caucasoid to Mongoloid, while Indo-Iranians range from Caucasoid to Australoid. Semitic languages are a subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic languages.

Meanwhile, 1ball, 2ball, 3ball, 5ball, 7ball and 8ball are associated with larger groups of people with a common genetic origin, each spanning a lot of ethnic groups and (aside from 7ball) language families. Arguably, 3ball and 7ball could be categorized as descendants or siblings of 1ball.

Perhaps a more generic ball would give a better representation to native peoples of an intermediate region spanning from the Sahara to Central Asia and maybe Siberia, which don't clearly fall within the other groups. It would be a sibling group of 2ball, with influences from 1ball (Turkic, Uralic), 5ball (Indo-Iranians) and/or 8ball (Afro-Asiatic peoples in the Sahara and the Horn of Africa).