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I think the simplest answer is a Royalist Vendée state, although it seems pretty unlikely to me.

I have started. Also I made this little map of the basic linguistic situation I'm envisioning for this region. The gradient is the Sanakak dialect continuum, Blue is the Aldinaku language group, green is the Ashar languages, and purple is the Duwa languages. EDIT: Changing the location of the...

Sanakak language I've worked out a bit of a sketch for a kind of of dialect continuum around the Tavaranic and Mhanid cultures. Based phonologically in the Egyptian Language, but then there's some sound changes that differentiate Upper Sanakak (around Mnari) and Lower Sanakak (around...

Hi there everyone. Just thought I'd say that I'm currently working on the languages of and around the Tavaranic and Mnarid cultures. Gotta say that I'm mostly throwing out the supposed real-world language bases. I've really only kept a vaguely Ancient Egyptian phonology for the Mnarid language...

I've been trying to come up with a TL that ends up with greater Spanish involvement in British Columbia starting with more settlement in the 1770s/80s. A few PoD ideas I've been throwing around include more Russian settlement in that area instigating more Spanish settlement, James Cook dying...

Thanks a lot (or in Éirarabic: بيخـس)! I don't speak either, just a brief look on wikipedia and a passion :)

Very rough, but here: Halam! Ta creb-m vi a-lugha Éirarabic. Mhaih-m terich bedil. [hello! am write-I with the-language IrishArabic. like-I history alternative] (Hello! I am writing in the Irish-Arabic language. I like alternate history.) What it sounds like

Must... resist urge... to conlang! This is a great thread though.

I chose the Chinese languages because that would probably be clearer to more people. (Also I don't know about that situation with Limburgish :p) Not quite, as has been seen above. I have grown up bilingual in Canada since I was 4. I find it easier to read Occitan than written Walloon...

Exactly, they are not mutually intelligible. Standard French and Walloon are distinct languages. Related, yes, but the situation is similar to Mandarin/Cantonese.

I've been playing with the idea of a (more) active "linguistic romanticism" movement in the 19th century, which could-- among other things-- curb the IAL fanaticism of the time (or at least push it towards something more like Latin revivalism), and (given the right groups of activists) serious...

I decided to make an OTL statistics map today, so here is as far as I've gotten in a map of countries by number of schools running the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program. I also did Canada, US, Mexico, Australia, and Ecuador subdivisions, because they were some of the highest, but I...

Thanks! I've been getting most of the words from the DOST section of the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, since the PoD happens around in the Middle Scots era. Then I applied some standardisation rules, imagining at some point ITTL there was an effort to standardise the language to keep it vibrant...

A map of some ideas from this thread regarding the Scots language. The PoD is basically that there is earlier and more successful Scottish colonization of the Americas, funded in part by the Spanish, to keep a buffer between them and the English (in North America) and the Portuguese (in South...

Well we would end up with some funny homophones: (found with google translate and looking at lists of minimal pairs) girei - pretty OR ceremony gin - gold OR silver ginkou - suburbs OR bank chinko - penis OR safety deposit box tachi - collective suffix OR waterfall rachi - abduction OR lucky...