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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...

With any POD, make it so that a creole forms between Portuguese and Hawaiian on the Hawaiian islands. How might this language look? Maybe something like Papiamentu, but with Hawaiian influence instead of Dutch, and influence from East Asian languages like Japanese and Mandarin? How would the...

Romance languages have feminine nouns derived from Latin feminine and masculine derived from Latin masculine and neuter. Sound changes tend to render this two-way distinction one way or another, (almost) always merging masculine and neuter. Could a Romance language plausibly go through sound...

Most Romance languages have two genders. Feminine derived from Latin feminine, and masculine derived from Latin masculine and neuter. Some keep a vestigial neuter, but this thread is not about that. In many Romance languages, feminine nouns end with -a while masculine nouns end with -o. In...

The Ancient Egyptian goddess Neith seems very interesting. How could a religion with Neith as its monotheistic god emerge? Where might it grow and thrive? The Cult of Isis, for example, spread to Rome. A syncretic religion of some sort is okay, as long as God is referred to as Neith (and as...

What if in the 16th (or maybe 17th) century Spanish ships, on their way between New Spain and the Philippines, were blown off course and landed on the Hawaiian islands? Let's say the people on board end up stranded on the islands, completely cut off from New Spain. How might they adapt to life...