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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...> wrote: > > --- italocarune <italocarune@...> 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! That would be fun. I'll look into both groups, though in our world Dalmatic is dead. :( > > > 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. Regional subdivision=Elba. Brilliant! > > > 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. Will do. I can find out about French easily, and I'll ask about the dialect of Italian from that area, and check the (very limited) information that I can find online about Lombardic. I think that for convenience, it may end up as more French, simply due to lack of resources for Lombardic, but we'll see. > > 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. Thanks. I think I'm going to stick with Elba, but I'll keep these thoughts in mind just in case I'm unable to for some reason.