Create an Alternate/New Dialect

You've heard of creating alternate history about languages, but how about dialects, or even accents?

The challenge this thread contains is to create a dialect found in an alternate history of your design. Your format is:
Name
Language Family
Range
Influences/Divergences
History
Number of Speakers


I'll start you off with this:

Elniugatian Spanish
Language Family

  • Indo-European
    • Italic
      • Romance
        • Western Romance
          • Ibero-Romance
            • West-Iberian
              • Castilian languages
                • Spanish
                  • Elniugatian Spanish
Range - Elnugatia [1][2], Canada, Ternovou [3], New England, Clumbia
Divergences/Influence - Influenced primarily by Miꞌkmaq as well as French and English. Another influence was the cold temperate climate of the country. For instance, soy is pronounced as joy.
History
The first spanish colonies were established in Elnugatia around 1504. During the Seven Years' War, the Mahigamigu Peninsula
(Estimated) Number of Speakers - 7.5 Million
  1. Derived from a Mi'kmaq word meaning town or village
  2. OTL Nova Scotia Peninsula (known as the Mahigamigu Peninsula), coastal New Brunswick, PEI, the Magdalens, and southeatern Maine on the Penobscot River (known ITTL as Río Ranagrande)
  3. Newfoundland Island, St Pierre and Miquelon, and parts of Labrador
Not to be confused with Herixkan, a creole language spoken by basque immigrant people
 
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Name: Ieeyah'i
Language Family:
  • Dené–Yeniseian
    • Yeniseian
      • Greater Xiongnu
        • Western Hordic Xiongnu
          • Euro-Xiongnu Hordic
            • Great Peninsular
              • Ieeyah'i
Range: *Norway, *Iceland, *Western Finland
Influences/Divergences Xiongnu settlers from the Hunnic conquests with a substrate of Germanic and Finno-Urgic roots that are native to Scandinavia. Some wonder if it is a true language or a kind of creole.History. Established by the aforementioned Xiongnu settlers. Significant borrowing from Germanic and Latin languages after the collapse of the Hunnic and Xiongnu empires. Several small tribes eventually united by the tribe based in *Rogaland, and thus that dialect became the most important. Further divided with the rest of Scandinavia converts to Arian Christianity, while the Ieeyah'i'huu convert to Nicene Christianity.
Number of Speakers. 5.8 million
 
Name: Venezuelan Dutch
Language Family:
  • Indo-European
    • Germanic
      • West Germanic
        • Ingvaeonic
          • Low German
            • Venezuela Dutch
Range: Klein-Venedig (Venezuela), New Amsterdam, Dutch Brasil, the Guyanas, Curacao
Influences/Divergences: German settlers in Klein-Venedig (German colony in Venezuela started during Charles V), West African languages, Caribbean creole languages, Spanish, Flemish
History: Klein-Venedig (Little Venice) was the most significant territory of the German colonization of the Americas, from 1528 to 1546, in which the Welser banking family of the Free Imperial City of Augsburg obtained colonial rights in the Province of Venezuela in return for debts owed by Emperor Charles V, who was also King of Spain. The primary motivation was the search for the legendary golden city of El Dorado. The venture was led at first by Ambrosius Ehinger, who founded Maracaibo in 1529. Afterward, a successful colonization ensued and the German colony was later acquired by the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which attached it to its colonies in Guyana, Suriname and northern Brazil. Venezuela which also saw settlement by llaneros, became the main center of the Dutch empire before independence in the 19th century. Venezuelan Dutch expanded through public education and subsumed several creole languages taking influences from them, and standardized orthography that made it distinct from Low German or Dutch.
Number of Speakers: 40 million
 
Name: Garban Kananim
Language Family:

Afro-Asiatic

Range:
Garba Kenan (NE Brazil)
Divergence: Phoenician traders island-hop across the South Atlantic to Brazil.
History: Garba Kenan was settled by Phoenician traders and colonizers between 409 and 198 BC. The coast from the Amazon to Rio de Janerio was settled and a group of city-states formed before being absorbed by Rusighrem (Natal) by 7 AD. They, more technologically advanced than the natives, were able to hold off the Portuguese long enough to build an early modern infrastructure. They were eventually overwhelmed, but after the independence of Brazil they split off and created their own state. (Maranhao, Piaui, Ceara, Bahia, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraiba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe)
Number of Speakers: 57 million
 

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Banned
Name: Isedoniká
Language Family: Isendoniká

  • Indo-European
    • Hellenic
      • Eastern Hellenic
        • Perso-Hellenic
          • Isedoniká
Range: Isedonike (northern Afghanistan, eastern Uzbekistan, southern Kyrgyzstan, and northern Tajikistan)

Influences/Divergences Isedonike's Hellenistic identity is a resort of multiple migrations of Hellenes peoples to Central Asia starting with the resettlement of rebellious Hellenes under multiple Persian kings and commanders reinforced by an increased influx of Macedonians and Ionians under the Argead king Alexander Megas and his eastern Seleucid deputies who would built multiple cities and fortresses in honor of their Argead overlords in Babylon. The land was previously known as Baktriane.

Argead rule would not last forever.

The Issedones, Indo-European nomads from China's eastern reaches, would migrate to and subjugate Baktriane on behalf of their Ounnoite overlords. The Issedones would give Baktriane's its new name but the steppe nomads quickly assimilated and intermarried into the Hellenized population, influencing the Hellenic language with Indo-Iranian, Mongolic, Turkic and even Chinese loan words.

Number of Speakers. 16.2 million
 
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Name: Vinlandic Finnish
Language Family:
  • Uralic
    • Finnich
      • Finnish
        • Eastern Finnish
          • Vinlandic Finnish
Range: Vinland (especially the Atlantic Provinces and Mid-Vinland), United States (especially New England, Ontonagon, and Minnesota)

Influences: Vinlandic Finnish dialects (Viinimaan murteet) are all descended from Eastern Finnish dialects, especially Savonian Finnish, due to many early settlers of Vinland being Forest Finns from the eastern provinces of Finland. The dialects are marked by typical Eastern Finnish features, but incorporate a great amount of Norwegian and Danish influence thanks to those groups being the dominant language during the colonisation of the region. A few American Indian words occur in these dialects, which further separates them. For a Finnish speaker in Tampere or Turku, these dialects are very hard to understand, but for Finnish speakers in places like Kuopio it is easier to understand.

History: The history of Vinlandic Finnish is comparable to the history of the Finns in Vinland [1]. The (re-)colonisation of Vinland in the late 15th century by what would become the United Kingdoms of Scandinavia attracted a variety of people from the Finnish provinces, mostly small-scale farmers, hunters, and trappers. They were among the first settlers of the mainland of the country, and formed the vanguard of Norse colonial expansion in North America. While many assimilated into mainstream Vinlandic culture (indeed, the majority of Vinlanders have Finnish heritage to this day), in their traditional homelands of the Coast Provinces [Maritimes] and in the mid-north and far-north, the inverse occurred and many kept their language and traditions. The Finnish national movement of the 19th century inspired Finnish Vinlanders equally, and helped preserve their culture and customs. At the same time, their homelands were impoverished in many parts (despite early industrialisation), so many emigrated south to the border regions of the United States.

Finnish speakers make up a majority in most rural areas of the Atlantic Provinces, and form significant minorities in the cities. In the Atlantic Provinces, their activism has created a bilingual status in the area between Norse and Finnish. Later immigration of Finns resulted in a solidification of the Finnish identity alongside the Finnish revival back in the United Kingdoms of Scandinavia, but also spread influences of the Western Finnish, Karelian, and even Estonian dialects. Most self-identified Finns remained in the Atlantic provinces, but some moved to the "Mid-Vinland" region in the Subarctic (such as "Apitipi" [Abitibi]), where the Vinlandic government in the late 19th century hoped the Finns could carve out an agricultural existence in the remote Subarctic as their ancestors had carved out an existenance in the initial years of Vinland.

In the United States, these dialects are spoken by a minority of elderly people. These traditional dialects in places like the state of Ontonagon [2] are the most endangered. Originating from 19th century Vinlandic emigrants, Vinlandic Finnish dialects remained important local languages in parts of Minnesota, Upstate New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Maine. [3]

The Vinlandic dialects are divided into many varieties, but the most common is the speech of the Coast Provinces.

Number of Speakers. 1,592,000

The vast majority of speakers of Vinlandic Finnish live in Vinland. Maybe 20,000 live in the United States, who speak unique dialects like Minnesota Finnish, Ontonagon Finnish, and New England Finnish, which are now highly endangered thanks to the elderly age of their speakers.

[1] - Copying a bit from my entry in another thread on Vinlandic Finns. Essentially, these Finnish Vinlanders are comparable to both French Canadians and the Canadian Gaelic, but quite much more successful than either group due to a variety of circumstances.

[2] - "State of Superior" i.e. the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

[3] - We have a fusion of Canadian Gaels, French Canadians, and Finnish Americans/Canadians. I think it's a potential of a "Kalmar Union" colonised Vinland.
 
Name: Amerikaans
Language Family:

  • Indo-European
    • Germanic
      • West Germanic
        • Low Franconic
          • Dutch
            • Amerikaans
Range: New Holland ( official language, spoken mainly in the coastal regions), Pennsylvania (small pockets in the North), New England, Antilles, Suriname, Zuid-Afrika, Holland, and Patagonia (recognised minority language)
Influences:
The word ‘Amerikaans’, similarly to Afrikaans, comes from the Dutch word for ‘American’. While Amerikaans is mainly derivative of Dutch, because of New Holland’s ethnic heterogeneity, the language contains influences from Italian, English, French, and German. The language developed around the early 19th century, when, shortly after the collapse of the Empire of Columbia, during the War of Dutch Succession, several more Dutch migrants moved to what had been the historic ‘New Holland’ region. This was encouraged by the Dutch King, Lodewijk I Napoleon. The language is spoken not only by those of Dutch descent, but also by several non-Dutch residents of the nation. During the early 1900s, after the Crash of 1912, several New Dutch moved to South America, Zuid-Afrika and the Caribbean, all of which remained relatively unaffected by the Crash compared to North America, bringing their language and culture with them.
The language has several dialects, such as Afrikaansamerikaans, mainly spoken by Afro-New Dutch, Ïrsamerikaans, spoken mainly by Irish-New Dutch, Joodiks, spoken by members of the Jewish community, Italiaansamerikaans, spoken by the Italo-New Dutch community, and Pensilvanees, a mixture of Amerikaans and Pennsylvania German.
Number of Speakers: 14 Billion (In New Holland, as a first language)
 
Name: Floridian French
Language Family:
  • Indo-European
  • Romance
  • Western
  • Gallo-Romance
  • Oïl
  • French
  • Floridian French
Range: Southeastern and South-Central North America
Origin: After the conquest of Quebec by the English in 1628, France established colonies on the Southeastern Coast of North America, centered around the port city of Richelieu (OTL Charleston, SC). The dialect emerged out of influences from the various dialects spoken across Northern and Western France, as well as influences from West and Central Africa among the significant Afro-Floridian population, as well as later influences from European immigrants (Spanish, Italian, Irish, Polish etc.). While the accent spoken across different parts of the country varies to a noticeable degree, they're more similar to each other than they are to European French.
Native Speakers: 60 Million for Standard Floridian French and 20 Million for Afro-Floridian French.
 
Name: Qatriyan Aramaic
Language family:
  • AfroAsiatic
    • Semitic
      • Northwest Semitic
        • Aramaic
          • Eastern Aramaic
            • Qatriyan
Range: OTL Qatar, Bahrain, Eastern province of Saudi Arabia
Influences: Basically Mesopotamian Aramaic superstratum over Arabic substratum with Persian influences
History: The area would have gotten under influence of Nestorian missionaries and gravitate to Mesopotamia. Not much to say, for my timeline is rather under construction; we have not gotten post 1000AD yet.
Number of speakers : the population of Qatar, Bahrain and Eastern province of Saudi Arabia
 
Name: Porchugasa Confederama (aka Porchugasa, Confederado Portuguese, São Paulo Portuguese)

Language Family:

Indo-European
  • Italic
    • Romance
      • Western Romance
        • Ibero-Romance
          • West Iberian
            • Galician-Portuguese
              • Portuguese
                • Porchugasa
Range: Confederado settlements in southern Brazil— most notably in pockets in southern São Paulo and some parts of northern Paraná.

Influences and Brief History: Porchugasa Confederama is a simplification and Anglicization of regional Portuguese dialects from around the São Paulo area, blending the unique speech patterns and habits of the United States' "Deep South" with Portuguese. English speaking in the post-1867 extensive "confederado" settlements was discouraged by the Brazilian government, but strict teaching of Portuguese was not enforced, leading to a strange blend of the two languages that, while almost completely Portuguese in its structure and overall vocabulary, utilizes several unnecessary English loanwords and phrasings. It also is famed for its distinctly "Dixie" pronunciation changes, with spelling changes to match, added and standardized within the dialect as a point of pride.
In the modern era, Porchugasa is a dying dialect, and Brazilian culture discourages its use due to it carrying cultural connotations of racism, elitism, and ignorance, as well as the baggage of being generally “foreign.” However, this has not stopped the accent often related with the dialect from becoming a popular faux-accent adopted by indie folk singers in the United States and even Portugal.

(Estimated) Number of Speakers: 112,000

(Projected) Number of Speakers by 2050:
8,000
 
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Mkaatewileni English
Language Family:
Indo- European
  • Germanic
    • West Germanic
      • Anglo-Frisian
        • Anglic
          • English
          • North American English
          • Mkaatewileni English
Range:
Gichigam Peninsula (OTL Michigan UP)
Influences: English and French with Indigenous influence and simplified grammar and spelling
History: During the 19th Century, many escaped slaves from Virginia and Fleurida (A francophone nation consisting of OTL Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida) fled to Tortolia (A pan-indigenous nation in OTL the dakotas, Minnesota Wisconsin, and the UP), where slavery was abolished. Many of them were led by John Potterson, an escaped slave, to the Gichigam Peninsula, where they formed the Mkaatewileni ethnic group (which I mentioned in a previous post).
Number of Speakers: 8 Million
 
Pensilfaneg or Pensulfaneg

Language Family:

  • Indo-European
  • Celtic
  • Brythonic
  • Welsh
  • southern Welsh
  • Pensilfaneg
Range: The Cambria district in central/western Pensylvania, USA
Influence/Divergencies: A mix of south western and south eastern Welsh e.g. 'How are you?' is 'Shwd i hi?' It is noteworthy that the pronouns hi [she] and chi [you (pl)] have fallen together as 'hi'. There are some loanwords from neighbouring colonial German speech, and an ever-growing influence from American English. Various English loanwords are used instead of original Welsh words; but the dialect preserves some Welsh words where an English loan is more usual in Wales.
History: There was intense settlement by Welsh speakers, at first chiefly from Ceredigion and Glamorgan, in central-western Pensylvania from the middle of the 18th century onward; the area became known as Nova Cambria (Cymru Newydd), or simply Cambria, and the dialect is often called Pensylvania Welsh, or (in linguistic publications) Novacambrian. Major Welsh immigration continued until the mid 19th century. Certain counties long had Welsh or Welsh and German majorities and in practice used Welsh in their administration; but the language has never had any official status.
Number of speakers: c7500. The language appears moribund, in spite of efforts to preserve it, except among a few agricultural-religious groups like the Bethelites, where it is still in daily use.
 
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