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--- James Campbell <james@hidden.email> wrote: > Can I just say that this list is really fascinating > at the moment? > Well, of course you can. We have no restrictions on free speech . . . Oh, wait that's not what you meant . . . *ducks cream pie* > about possible sound shifts for my new baby: a South > Germanic (or > Mediterranean Germanic) lang for a people who ended > up on an island near > Corsica called Capraia, around 200 CE. Of course, > there will be many Romance > borrowings (and the orthography is heavily > Romance-influenced). Anyone got > any thoughts on which local Italian dialects to > borrow from? I'm borrowing > at different times, but trying to construct the > modern language through > sound changes. > Well, I'd certainly look at Pisan since Pisa ruled Corsica during the 1200's and 1300's IIRC. Genoese too. Actually everything in the region traded back and forth between Genoa and Pisa for ages till Pisa took a ride with the tidybowl man and never recovered. Corsican, Sicilian, Provencal and perhaps Catalan are non-Italian langs that should also be of interest. Your little island is in a volatile area and has likely had many foreign rulers/overlords. You probably need to concider Byzantium, Saracens, Pisa, Genoa, the Kingdom of Sicily, Aragon, France, Naples at least, up to the 1400's. Any or all of them could have had profound influence on the history of your island. How many of them left tongue prints? Only you can decide. Adam