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On 14.1.2008 peter21691 wrote:
Linguistically during this period (more or less the imperial period) there's palatisation across all of the West, including Germania in the North when the right conditions exist.
So how are you going to implement platalization? It just occured to me that it may interfere with the West Germanic change of consonant + j into geminate consonant, which probably should happen in Germano-Romance!
Finally from the 5th century on, there is the North Roman (HG) consonant shift taking place east of the Rhine, and intervocalic voicing to the west, which is going to force everyone to pack their phrasebooks when they plan a trip to the other side of the River. Sound about right?
Sounds absolutely right! A separate political development for Germania from the mid 4th century will of course speed the process!
Why don't you have a dabble at that Alano-Slavic language for OTL Pommerania/Brandenburg? That would be something!
Indeed. IIRC North Iranian is almost virgin territory apart
from the *ry > l change evidenced by the word *a:ria:nam >
Alani[^1] itself and what can be gleaned from Ossetian.
What's more Alan in the west and Ossetian in the east
needn't be very similar. However I expect a situation
similar to Bulgarian in OTL: essentialy Polabian Slavic
(extinct in OTL!) with a few Alan loan words.
I'd love to do the Romance lang spoken by the guys in North-
West Germany who may or may not go over to Britain in the
ATL, though!
BTW I've decided to call the ATL Mundus Germaniae Romanae,
MGR, since the acronym "MGM" is probably TM-protected!
/Maledictus Gothus
[^1]: Alani is cognate with Iran, i:ra:n < e:ra:n <
*aira:n < airya:nam < *a:rya:nam, originally the gen.pl.
of *a:rya-. The form _airya:nam_ is even the gen.pl.
attested in Avestan!