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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...> wrote: > > --- italocarune <italocarune@...> 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). Oops! My bad. I forgot! > > 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. I won't. But I worked around it differently. I now have a whole range of links to check out for Corsican, Neapolitan, French, a bit on Romansch, Italian, and Dalmatian from IB. I think I'm going to keep the phonology (at least for Old Elbic) as I have it, but I may get ideas for more sound changes as I look at those sites to get to Middle and Modern Elbic. Thanks for the advice!