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--- italocarune <italocarune@hidden.email> wrote:
> > Realistically, I don't see how there can be
> > any
> > room for any new major languages in Europe,
> > especially Romance ones. Small dialects no
> > one has ever heard of -- sure.
>
> How about something with as many speakers as,
> say, Rumantsch?
Possibly. What region would you be interested in?
> A very small island would be good. I'll look
> around some maps of the Adriatic and see
> what I can find for perhaps a few small
> islands.
Fine. What country would they be part of? The
whole area is Romance: Italic on the left,
Dalmatic on the right. You could have a field day
in that region!
> > At this point, IB seems to be
> > looking for depth more than breadth.
>
> How so?
There's really not room for more countries.
There's only so much land area to put them all.
Areas under present investigation regional
subdivisions, history, popular culture,
economics, political theories and the like.
> > A smallish corner of Europe could probably be
> > explored for a minor language.
> >
> > Let's hear what you have in mind and we'll
> > see if
> > it can fit!
>
> Well, say the island of Elba and its neighbor
> Pianosa and any other mini-islands there were
> home to a dialect of Italian that got mixed up
> with Corsican (or French, whichever is
> dominant in Corsica) and spawned its own
> language, ending up with its own language?
Elba and Pianosa were Lombardic (North Italian).
You'd need to research whatever there is on
Corsica (French) and Lombardy to see how that
could work out.
> It
> wouldn't necessarily have to be its own country
> (though that would be nice, it's only a little
> bit smaller than Malta, after all), but it
> would be a nice little area to work on.
Size isn't so much the issue! Malta is a country
today because England had the forsight and
rectitude to wrest it from its French invaders.
How would tiny Elba be able to defend itself?
> Maybe it
> starts of as an administrative division of
> Italy, but eventually declares its
> independence.
It would be interesting to see what sort of
proposal you come up with!
> There are several alternatives I can think of,
> and different other languages they could mix
> with (the Isole Lipari that I mentioned above,
> Isola di Pantelleria, or possibly, moving
> further away, such islands as Cres, Dugi Otok,
> Kornat, and the like off the coast of
> Dalmatia).
An interesting area indeed.
Padraic.
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vem Persaecion empuriase ed ec pasem emduriase!
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