Points of divergence concerning the development of various languages and of linguistic sciences.

Alternate language challenge grab bag

The survival of languages that went extinct in OTL

Alternate World Languages

Save these OTL languages !

Which ethnolinguistic group deserves a wank ?

Language revivals in alternate histories

Alternate Phonetic Changes

WI: No surnames

WI more widespread use of Esperanto ?

Challenge: Esperanto as Air Traffic and Aviation Language

New languages in the future

Which new first names could emerge in ATLs or future histories ?

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Etruscan language survival

WI: Standard Latin language

How did Latin "die" ?

Challenge: More languages in Europe that survive to the present (with a 1300 POD)

Challenge: As many OTL European dialects developing into full languages as possible

Challenge: Cyrillic alphabet more widespread than in OTL

WI: Masovian language not extinct

More "Ancient Names" in Britain ?

Challenge: A completely alien "English" language

What would the English language look and sound like if the Norse conquer England ?

The development of the English language in a timeline without a succesful Norman invasion ?

Limit the use of the English language to England only

Effect of no Shakespeare on the English Language ?

Largest possible number of Germanic languages ?

Challenge: Germanic Languages have separate alphabet

Challenge: Latin-speaking Germany

WI Dutch was far closer to German ?

Discussion on making the Dutch speak German (Deutsch)

Plausibility check: Germanized Lithuania in the 14th century

WI: More Germanic/Romance hybrid languages like English ?

How would the Irish langauge fare with Ireland as protestant as England ?

Survival of Gaulish or Norican language ?

Challenge: Make German as widely spoken in the US as Spanish (with a POD no earlier than the ratification of the Constitution)

Development of German language in a world where the Central Powers won WWI

Challenge: Make Cornish the world's lingua franca by 2000

Eastern Catalan dialects still using "salat" (sigmatic definitive article)

Orthography POD

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Arabic as the default language in Europe

How would a Romance Language with Arabic as a parent evolve ?

An idle thought on the Ottoman Turkish language

WI: No Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)

Myanmar's Pyu language survived

Linguistic effects of Brit/Canuck settlement of a mainly Chinese area in the 1800s

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Challenge: Prevent Afrikaans from diverging from Dutch

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Challenge: Preserve Tupi as the dominant language of colonial Brazil

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