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English has -s and -'s, which are pronounced the same. E.g. cats vs cat's

I would love to see such a language! Someone posted a snippet of a Portuguese-Japanese creole on reddit, Nagasaki-Ringu. Maybe the language of the Kirishtans could share similarities with that one.

This would be too late, but apparently Britain considered giving the British West Indies to Canada after WWI. I also remember hearing about a similar proposal much earlier, but I can't find info on it right now (I could be misremembering though).

I believe the links below cover roughly what you're looking for. Section 1.4 touches on how southern Britain could have become Romance speaking. 1. Introduction 2. Preliminary Considerations 3. Phonology: Consonants 4. Phonology: Vowels 5. Orthography

If Venice becomes part of a unified Italy soon enough (or maybe even are the unifiers themselves), might the Venetian language have a larger influence on the Italian language adopted after unification? For example, distinguishing voiceless /ts/ from voiced /dz/ in spelling like Venetian does (ç...

I wonder what the flag would end up as if the maple leaf wasn't chosen? Maybe if Vesperia was the name, the flag would have a star on it to signify the evening star, and purple colour used as a backdrop to signify the evening? I assume Ursalia's flag would have a bear on it somewhere...

Do any of these have descent sized American towns, as the OP specified?

I remember hearing that the condition of women in Rome was slowly improving until the patriarchal system of the time was made into religion. Once that happened, it was unfortunately set in stone. In the ATL, Christianity would never absorb this patriarchy and thus would be more egalitarian...

I wonder what would happen to consonant clusters with L or R as the second element? Clusters with L swapped out their L for an I /j/ in Italian, and that is the theory as to how they became ll in Spanish and ch in Portuguese as well, but these changes happened long before this time period. Is...

Lernu, a website for learning Esperanto, gives the definition of li as: he "the male person or person of unknown gender talked about" Anyway, I wonder if there's any possibility of some alternate US type entity with a lot more Spanish speaking territory that adopts Esperanto as an auxiliary...

From a thread about Spanish Hawaii: So if something like this were to happen, how would it affect history? (As for the POD, 17th century is fine, but 16th century would work too if it's at all plausible.) Would Hawaii retain Spanish as a spoken language, a Spanish-Hawaiian Creole, or perhaps...

If a Hawaiian Chamorro were to form, what Spanish sounds could make it into the language? Maybe s /s/, or y /ʝ/ (perhaps simplified to /j/ as in English y)? How about ch /tʃ/? In Chamorro itself, ch becomes /ts/; might this language follow a similar pattern? How would syllable structure be...

I don't suppose the OTL Portuguese routes took them anywhere near Hawaii? What about other Polynesian islands? Could Portuguese have formed a Creole with a different Polynesian language?

The -iĉo suffix is not a standard suffix, so I might not be understood if I used it. Also, if I said patro for example, people would think I meant father and not parent. The standard Esperanto word for parent is... nothing. There isn't one. Some people have back-formed gepatro for parent...

I get that, but that doesn't mean it can't be changed now. Would it really be that hard to say that patro used to mean father back when the world was more sexist, and now in the modern day, patro is parent while patriĉo is father? This would be a much better balance with patrino (mother), and...

On the note of Esperanto speaking nations, there was also the micro-nation Republic of Rose Island (Esperanto: Respubliko de la Insulo de la Rozoj, lit. "Republic of the Island of Roses").

There was a plan to make Neutral Moresnet an independent Esperanto-speaking nation called Amikejo (friendship place). Maybe if that had have happened somehow, it could be a start. Speaking of criticism, I would probably be fluent if not for my hang-up over how it handles gender. Like, c'mon...

How likely would the Creole be to retain nasalized vowels? If it lost nasalized vowels, would the nasal palatal approximant nh /j̃/ denasalize into a regular palatal approximant /j/ (like y in English "yes")? How might the spelling change to reflect this?

So perhaps have Spain discover the islands early, while the Iberian Union is still in effect. The Spanish use it as a stopover between New Spain and the Philippines, and the Portuguese merchants set up shop. After the Iberian union falls apart, enough Portuguese merchants have settled on the...

I don't suppose Portuguese Hawaii could happen without Portuguese Mexico? What other ways could Portugal get to Hawaii? Due to the way the New World was divided between Spain and Portugal, it seems Spain pretty much owned the Pacific coasts of North and South America, at least in theory. Is...