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--- italocarune <italocarune@hidden.email> wrote:
> > Areas under present investigation regional
> > subdivisions, history, popular culture,
> > economics, political theories and the like.
>
> Regional subdivision=Elba. Brilliant!
Good!
> > > > 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.
Mind you, by "Lombardic" I don't mean a Germanic
language. The Republic of Lombardy is the name of
the northern third of Italy (the other thirds
being the Papal States and the Kingdom of the Two
Sicilies).
> I
> think that for convenience, it may end up as
> more French, simply due to lack of resources
> for Lombardic, but we'll see.
Don't let mere convenience win the day!
Padraic.
Camifi, Marusi, teterani, tester fuferios asteros; tamenio
vem Persaecion empuriase ed ec pasem emduriase!
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