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I was referring specifically to West-Central Canadian English, which is spoken from Ontario to British Columbia. The Maritime accent of, well, the Maritimes and the Newfoundland accent are different from each other and Central Canadian as well.

Hmm that's an impressive skill. I can't tell half the time whether a person is from Canada or the States, unless they have a really distinctive accent, like Newfie or Texan. I wonder if it's a situation where Canadian accents sound distinctive to Americans but not vice-versa... Is it the "eh"...

I'm from BC, and we sound more like people from Seattle than people from Toronto. I think the stereotypical Canadian accent is only preserved by the elderly nowadays. EDIT: That being, said, you are right in that Canadian speech is much much more homogenous than American speech. It also helps...

Yeah I was surprised when I read it too. It was just a footnote in a book I have about the Incas. Theres a little bit of info on Wikipedia too.

The Last Days of the Incas tells me it was Aleixo Garcia. He invaded the Incas in Bolivia with 2000 Guaranis and was defeated by Huayna Capac. This was in 1524, before Pizarro.

It was the Portuguese who contacted the Incas first actually. Some conquistador with a band of Tupis, IIRC. Didn't have any effect though. It would be extremely difficult for the Portuguese to make any lasting contact with the Incas, what with the Amazon and CApe Horn providing significant...

Well, considering the Tainos and the Beothuks suffered a similar fate in OTL...:p. Obviously, any cotanct between the New and Old world will devastate Native populations though diseases. But without the conquistadors, certain cultures like the Aztecs or Maya may be able to survive. I think that...

I don't really buy that nothing will change. Spain was uniquely able to exploit their discovery of the Americas. Kill Columbus and you kill Spanish colonization. Have the Portuguese discover Brazil, or the English discover Newfoundland and you unleash a million butterflies.

I don't know much about Chinese, but I guess by examining the rhymes of Middle Chinese, as well as evidence from other Chinese languages, people have managed to reconstruct Old Chinese. Wikipedia has a good article about it. Linguistic reconstruction isn't really just speculation. Eventhough we...

Sorry to jump into the conversation, but doesn't that make the modern and ancient Assyrians more related than Saudi Arabia and Mexico, whose languages are not related in any way shape or form?

That is an interesting thread, thanks! Satemization would have already occurred at the Proto-Indo-Iranian stage, so "Sino-Aryan" would be a satem language. I have no idea about this. I think that the Chinese script would have been in it's very earliest stages at this point. It might have...

Probably Indo-Aryan actually. The Tocharians are a possibility, but having the Indo-Aryans migrate to China would also have interesting butterflies in India. Plus more is known about their culture, compared to the relatively obscure Tocharians. As an aside about the Centum-Satem split, I've...

Now somebody needs to make a TL! I'm interested in possibly making a conlang now...

I can agree with you there. It's just that typically, I wouldn't consider people from the Middle East as being white (a meaningless term anyways). There is evidence that there was a Uralic component to the Andonovo Culture as well, (and possibly Burushaski and Yenisean as well, although this is...

Interesting thread. The only thing I have to add is that I would hesitate identifying any pre-historic Indo-European populations with being "white", since I don't think that is necessarily the case.

Awesome. Haven't read the whole thing yet, but I'm liking it so far. I noticed the Oyo seem to speak Ojibwe/Algonquin. Any reason why they moved further south in this TL? I'm interested to see what happens when horses get introduced. Having the Great Plains to the west will make things...

I like it. Are those the Khazars in the Pontic Steppe? I'm surprised the Franks didn't get more screwed up as well.

I actually remember thinking of a similar TL a long time ago where the Normans went to Galicia instead of Sicily. I think I ripped it off from a great map from the Map Thread...In my sketch, I had them come as mercenaries, like the Anglo-Saxons in Britain. Soon, they revolted forming their own...

Roman Empire going Assyria to the max?

You can't stop linguistic change though. Political unity =/= linguistic unity. Just look at China or the Late Roman Empire.