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A bit of background to those unfamiliar with the earlier chapters of (properly) Scottish history, before what scholarship calls the Davidian Revolution (a series of institutional reforms propagated by King David I) was something like your prototypical image of a gaelic kingdom, and it could be...

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!

I was undecided on whether to put this here or in Future History, and as you can see I have placed it here, but it may well fit in both as it has a modern setting. Say, a crackpot English nationalist government comes into power in Britain. Handwaving how as it has no bearing on the question...

One thing that stands out to me about England and the English language is how relatively homogenous they are in terms of language. Yes, I know you have a variety of dialects and accents. But compare that to the continent or Asia, where (historically) travelling just a hundred km or so you find...

Welcome.. Welcome to city- i mean the latest linguistic and ethnic maps thread, for all your ethnic and language maps needs! Feel free to post your ethnicities, language or even culture maps in this thread for easy access, because who wants to search through an entire site instead of a single...

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the colonial borders resulted in very linguistically diverse countries in the aftermath of decolonization. As a result, many of those countries retained the colonial language as the lingua franca, and as the official language of the state. The closest a Sub-Saharan...

Recently, I've been toying with an admittedly unusual concept for my alt-history project. What if, during the late 19th century and forward, Nationalist movements across Europe not only call for traditional nationalist tenants but also for certain nations to adopt new writing systems that...

The USSR as a whole didn't have an official official language, though Russian functioned as one in practice (the 'language of inter-ethnic communication' I believe they called it), but what if the Bolsheviks had been interested in Esperanto instead? Stalin was apparently learning the language...

If the Roman Empire survived to modern times, what would be the predominant language(s)? Also, is it possible for 1 language to be spoken through the entire empire?

I have been trawling through the forum to see if this has come up before, but I can't seem to find anything. Basically, I am wondering how easy it would be for a distinctive Galician (the East Slavic variety) language and culture to develop, separate from Ukrainian. Basically, it needs to be...

In a timeline with a much smaller Roman republic/empire, how small could the Roman state get and still manage to spread Latin letters to a recognizable extent? Of course a lot of Latin alphabets were adopted long after this through religion, trade, or colonization, such as the Vietnamese...

Hello all, I had an idea a while back regarding a kind of industrial revolution kicking off in China during the Song dynasty. Let's say they have everything, including a printing press, what happens to printed Chinese? Does a written standard come about like Martin Luther came up with his...

Since Latin was the language of academics, religion, and government for a while in Catholic Europe for a while, could there be a way for a European country (or multiple) to revive Latin as a widespread tongue during the modern era? There are many ways this can happen: 19th century nationalist...

Ever since the M-Bam map project was finished, there really weren't any other extra patches and the ones that existed died relatively quickly like language, religion etc.. So, i made this thread so we can finally continue creating M-Bam map patches, and most importantly: a language map...

Title. With a POD after July 1776, have the US have the highest possible percentage of Spanish speakers within it’s borders by the present day. How could this be done? More territory taken from Mexico? Annex Cuba and Panama? Something else? Bonus points: make a majority of the US speak Spanish.

As the tin says find a way to keep Cunieform in use by at least one language into the present day. It doesnt have to be used by a major language, or even be commonly known. Likewise you do not need to keep any languages in use that are extinct IOTL.

Does it necessairly have to be the most commonly spoken language in the world, or at least, the second most spoken? Let's assume, for the sake of this argument, that we have an European (but doesn't have to be one!) Great Power, which does have colonies in Africa and Asia, but never managed to...

This is REALLY crazy and out there and its just for fun but what if the Jewish Khazars migrated into Europe in the same manner that the Magyars did? What would their language look like if all the already established Yiddish speakers joined them(Would it have like Yiddish words with Khazar/...

Despite the fact that they've been out of everyday use for quite some time and were once spoken in eras without modern recording, long-extant languages still remain with us in some form or another. Enough, in fact, so that dedicated learners can become fluent and immerse themselves in the works...

As a Jewish American, I was just curious about this nearly impossible alternate reality since I'd wonder if Jews would embrace it and, you know, its creator was literally a Jew. I thought of this concept since the hotel where the Yiddish Police Man's Union begins has Esperanto signs. Anyway, I...