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Really, really cool. Are those the Mohawks in the Kentucky area?

I tried making a bunch of sound changes to derive the phonology of Nahuatl from Latin, sort of how Spanish, French, Romanian, etc are descended from Latin. It just ended up an uninteresting mess. Cool. I'd be interested in seeing pronunciation. Same with this.

I just started a conlang, so this thread was bumped at an appropriate time. I'll post something later. It's an isolate spoken on the Azores with a very non-European phonology. I once tried a Nahuatl-Latin hybrid. It didn't turn out as interesting as I had wanted :(. Benkarnell and Iori: I...

I thought they were fishermen and that was part of the reason why stone-age Japan was able to maintain such a large population compared to other stone age peoples? Sort of a similar situation to the Pacific Northwest of North America...

What's the point when they already have tons of snow and ice around to build with? EDIT: Didn't see stewacide's response.

Nothing. In fact, I'd be interested in knowing why Hungarian prevailed over Slavic in Pannonia. I'd assume because it was relatively sparsely populated. Northern Italy, on the other had, would have been densely populated by people speaking a Romance language, which would have been extremely...

I can. It's pretty much inevitable.

Yeah. I don't think Poland started uniting until ~1000. Although I might be wrong as well, so someone may need to correct us both :p

Thank you very much. That pretty much confirms what I was thinking. As for the Taino being extinct, I think it is still fair to say so. There are no pure-blooded descendants and whatever culture is left has been filtered through European culture through 500 years. Maybe their descendants who...

No, a state encompassing all the Slavs would have been thoroughly ASB at this period in time. But you asked if there was a Slavic state in Hungary prior to the arrival of the Magyars, and there was: Great Moravia.

There was this one, but it would still likely be destroyed in this scenario, as the Magyars are going to have to go through it at some point to get to Italy.

That wouldn't do anything. Languages change over time, no matter what the political situation is like. After all, many of the major sound changes in Romance language were already underway well before the collapse of the Empire. The "Latin" spoken in this united Italy would be just as different...

This is a sort of random and quite specific question. I know that disease and Spanish rule decimated the populations of the Cuba, Hispaniola and the other Carribean islands that the Spanish settled very early in their New World adventures, to the point that pretty much all the native ethnicities...

Maltese is definately descended from Arabic though. Any Phoenician connection would have been extremely ancient. Besides, that theory is discredited now. Before the Muslims it would have been Italians inhabiting Malta. Maybe some Greeks as well?

Huh, I was just sitting in my History of Greece and Rome class as we were discussing the Greek colonies wondering to myself if something similar could happen with the Mayan city states.

What do you mean by "Austrics"?

Well, "Chichimeca" was just a Nahuatl term meaning barbarian. It was most often applied to those in the nomadic tribes living in the deserts of northern Mexico. I made a mistake, btw. "Chichimeca" is the term for the tribes themselves. The area they inhabited would have been called "Chichiman".

You could call one of the northern areas Chichimeca...

He probably doesn't know what the word "Arab" means. Here is how the Arab world is normally defined (although I wouldn't include Somalia).

Hmm, it seems like this isn't really plausible, barring a major POD like tilting the axis of the Earth, which would really cause to many butterflies to make the world recognizable...