language families

Is there an active thread for alt!historical conlanging? If not, would anyone else be interested in starting one? I don't have much capacity to work on any projects right now but this is definitely a major area of interest for me!

By Maltese I mean a Christian population in Europe who speak a language based off of Siculo-Arabic. I guess Sicily would have to be more thoroughly Arabised by the time of a Christian conquest, and also the conqueror having less of a base in Italy or less ready to send Italian colons to the...

One of the largest and most influential language-shifts in global history could be traced back to the invasion of Europe by Attila the Hun. Before the Huns most of Europe spoke various Indo-European tongues with Latin being the prestige language; the Attila's hordes crushed most of the 5th...

Interslavic is a composite language promoted as a means of understandable communication between speakers of all Slavic languages. While at first glance it may sound modernistic, Interslavic is actually a few centuries old, with prototypes dating back to the 17th century. So, with that in mind...

The premise is simple. With a POD between 350 AD and 1000 AD (part of the ethno-linguistic formative years of modern Europe), have Germanic languages be more widespread (by which I mean more majority Germanic-speaking countries). There are a lot of countries in Europe that were established by...

A while back I had the idea to start up a spreadsheet/add on to my EU4 modding spreadsheet with colors associated with different religions and languages/cultures. It was only today when I thought "Hey, those guys at althis.com would enjoy this" Also, personal progress has lagged a bit since as...

What POD or PODs would you need to have to have countries from Iceland to Cyprus speak a Romance language or Greek dialect. Germanic and Slavic tribes assimilate into already Romance and Greek speaking populations?

The largest linguistic group in the world and one who has given shape to all the civilizations in the Western world. The celts, greeks, germanic tribes all of them spoke related languages. If somehow they vanish from history, would the world might be still similar to ours or it'd be quite...

Like would that language need to be spread around the world with several countries or would it need to be the language of the world's largest Economy? Are there other factors that could lead to a language becoming as popular as OTL English? I guess that basically I am asking what was the most...

Linguistics is based on opinion. Linguists attempt to classify languages into one family each. Do the classifications tell us everything about ancestry? Absolutely not. They tend to shortcut history, misleading all who listen. Is English a Romance Language? English has part Romance blood in it...

consider the far eastern branches of the Indo European language family, and the lifestyle of the people who spoke said languages: Most of them were steppe people such as the Iranians and Tochars and thus had a wide berth to travel. Now consider the migrations of the Inuit and other Siberian...