Kenani/Punic
Have the Carthaginian settlements on Corvo survive and expand over the rest of the Azores. By the time the Portuguese reach it in 1351, they find a powerful Punic plutocracy positioned perfectly upon the pleasure item routes. The Kenani modernize quickly, and this little Punic rump is a country in the EU by 1991.
Have the Carthaginian settlements on Corvo survive and expand over the rest of the Azores. By the time the Portuguese reach it in 1351, they find a powerful Punic plutocracy positioned perfectly upon the pleasure item routes. The Kenani modernize quickly, and this little Punic rump is a country in the EU by 1991.
Crimean Gothic: Intresting altough not easy. At least you should avoid Mongol invasion to Crimea. Perhaps surviving or at least much longer living Byzantine could control area but never hellenise that.
Cornish: Keep England Catholic or at least avoid oppressive politics towards them. Yes, I know that there is some revival but it hardly i scounted.
Coptic (not just liturgical language): No Arab invasion.
Etruscan: Avoid rise of Rome. Etruscan just have to be more succesful.
Any continental Celtic language: No Roman expansion outside of Italian peninsula would be good start.
Cornish: Keep England Catholic or at least avoid oppressive politics towards them. Yes, I know that there is some revival but it hardly i scounted.
Coptic (not just liturgical language): No Arab invasion.
Etruscan: Avoid rise of Rome. Etruscan just have to be more succesful.
Any continental Celtic language: No Roman expansion outside of Italian peninsula would be good start.
If the rumors of its survival into the early modern era are true, all you might really need to do is screw the Crimean Khanate.
What, only one? But there are so many possibilities! Here's two:
Etruscan. POD 509BC.Lars Porsenna of Clusium conquers Rome, reinstalls an Etruscan dynasty. Rome is 'Etruscanised' and becomes just another Etruscan city. One of the members of the Etruscan League eventually rises to prominence and unites the cities, perhaps in opposition to Gaulish incursions into Italy, into an Etruscan-speaking empire, which survives various vicissitudes to encompass most of the Italian peninsular down to the present day.
Cornish. AD1548 Glasney College is not destroyed but is secularised, and many old manuscripts are preserved there. There's more interest in the reformation in Cornwall in 16th century; during the reign of Elizabeth a translation of the Bible into Cornish is authorised - this is finally completed by 1629. The Prayer Book is also translated and church services are held in Cornish. A certain amount of secular literature is also written in the language. Cornish still declines, but much more slowly than in OTL. In the 20th century it is still the first language of many people in rural Penwith, giving a solid basis for the modern revival movement throughout Cornwall. In the present day it is used in education and the media; there are now five Cornish language primary schools, and in 2016 the first all-Cornish secondary school (Scol Michal Joseph Angof) was opened at Penzans.
Etruscan. POD 509BC.Lars Porsenna of Clusium conquers Rome, reinstalls an Etruscan dynasty. Rome is 'Etruscanised' and becomes just another Etruscan city. One of the members of the Etruscan League eventually rises to prominence and unites the cities, perhaps in opposition to Gaulish incursions into Italy, into an Etruscan-speaking empire, which survives various vicissitudes to encompass most of the Italian peninsular down to the present day.
Cornish. AD1548 Glasney College is not destroyed but is secularised, and many old manuscripts are preserved there. There's more interest in the reformation in Cornwall in 16th century; during the reign of Elizabeth a translation of the Bible into Cornish is authorised - this is finally completed by 1629. The Prayer Book is also translated and church services are held in Cornish. A certain amount of secular literature is also written in the language. Cornish still declines, but much more slowly than in OTL. In the 20th century it is still the first language of many people in rural Penwith, giving a solid basis for the modern revival movement throughout Cornwall. In the present day it is used in education and the media; there are now five Cornish language primary schools, and in 2016 the first all-Cornish secondary school (Scol Michal Joseph Angof) was opened at Penzans.
Proto-Indo-European never diverges into multiple languages and it remains a language isolate spoken in the Pontic Steppe until the present day.
Middle Egyptian remains the language of trade, science, academia, and diplomacy across the Mediterranean
Middle Egyptian remains the language of trade, science, academia, and diplomacy across the Mediterranean
I like this idea, but do you have any references for 'Carthaginian settlements'? The standard history is that the Azores were not discovered until C14th/15th.
Manx The Isle of Mann comes to dominate a large area of the North Atlantic Islands
The Yeniseian languages of Siberia and Central Asia (although one language still exists, filed as endangered).
Greenlandic Norse. Similarly to Icelandic, it would be probably quite conservative, though probably with quite few Greenlandic loan words. If they continue to make journeys to other parts of North America, I would assume that they might pick few loan words from there too.
There was a small cache of Carthaginian coinage and tools found in Corvo in 1749. Should be on the wiki, try coins of Corvo or something like that.