What if the Germanic tribes of central Europe managed to hold back the western Slavic migrations, or even push them back?
Doesn't matter. The Moonmen arrival negates all potential Aboriginal life.
All interesting ideas.That's a weird way to spell Maƕnmanic.
Aside from the weird spelling the above poster is right. The Germanic peoples would have likely spread westwards and southwards once they checked the Slavs, completely overrunning the Maƕnmanic peoples and getting rid of the black sheep of the Indo-European languages, which falls in neither centum nor satem but completely eschews the sibilant 's' in any meaningful way. And without the Maƕnmanic languages and their substantial Old European substrates we would have no knowledge of the Tyrrhenian languages such as Etruscan and Rhaelian.
So good thing them Germanics got relegated to Scandinavia and that one outpost in the Crimea or we might have been completely ignorant about Old European history.
I am not overly certain as said Etruscan and Celtic records are the only known records we have that have been accurately translated, though what little we do know is that they were polytheistic in nature and had a reverence for axes and the oak tree.Any experts here have any insights to this Germanic culture? Typical early agricultural & preliterate subsistence farmers and warrior bands? Was their religion or culture anything like the Celtic groups that inhabit the western littorals of Europe? Or closer to the Slavs of the eastern regions? What little we know of them is handed down by the Etruscan empires propagandists. We know how biased they were.
the Maƕnmanic peoples and getting rid of the black sheep of the Indo-European languages, which falls in neither centum nor satem but completely eschews the sibilant 's' in any meaningful way
Wasn't that mostly with the Germanics who settled in the Alps though?They loved Hercules more than any other gods and they thought Mercury was the king of the gods. One of the Greek philosophers said that. I'd say their religion was probably very much like Etruscan and Greek religion.
Don't forget that there are still a few Germanics today in Scandia. There are traces of Old Septentrial religion in the way the Scandii practice Scythio-Zoroastrianism. IIRC, they don't even believe in the Demiurge.They loved Hercules more than any other gods and they thought Mercury was the king of the gods. One of the Greek philosophers said that. I'd say their religion was probably very much like Etruscan and Greek religion.
All interesting ideas.
Is it accurate to call the Crimean's Germanic though?
I mean yes their language is derivative of the old Germanic dialects that went extinct in the 4th century, but it's been so heavily Tartarized and Hellenized that it sounds nothing like the scandinavian dialects.
Any experts here have any insights to this Germanic culture? Typical early agricultural & preliterate subsistence farmers and warrior bands? Was their religion or culture anything like the Celtic groups that inhabit the western littorals of Europe? Or closer to the Slavs of the eastern regions? What little we know of them is handed down by the Etruscan empires propagandists. We know how biased they were.
OOC: is this a thing OTL? If not, it needs to be
The Germanic peoples would have likely spread westwards and southwards once they checked the Slavs, completely overrunning the Maƕnmanic peoples and getting rid of the black sheep of the Indo-European languages, which falls in neither centum nor satem but completely eschews the sibilant 's' in any meaningful way.
Meh, that's a bit of an oversimplification. Maƕnmanic is satem, the s just later turned into an h like in the (centum) Greek.
I don't think Germanic languages were ever big enough to dominate an entire region of Europe. It's a miracle they didn't go completely extinct like Italic. Although I suppose you could get a global Germanic empire (I mean, aside from the Grand Duchy of Germania's foray into the Penobscot Bay) if Germanics had managed to take hold in the British Isles.
Also Italic isn't extinct, not yet atleast. There are atleast five mountain towns in Oχnava (OOC: Campania and Western Apulia) that speak a bastardised Oscan tongue.
OK, I was getting a little ahead of myself, but given how nationalistic the current Oχnavian regime is, I think the clock is ticking sadly. Although, checking Wikipedia, there appears to be a small but significant Oscan immigrant community in China, so maybe the language can live on there.