Re: Who's in Ill Bethisad anyway? (fwd)

Andrew wrote:

> A German Soundshift language should be made quite clear that it isn't
> Germanech.  Germanech occurs because the Roman Empire and its coloniae
> extended further into Germania than occured *here*.  That effects how
> history turns out.  Rather than repeat that I would accept that a German
> tribe such as the Bayavari (sic) change from OHG to VL and still keep
> the same sound changes.
<coughs politely> I've had a Germanic-based romancelang around for ages-
Jelbäzech. It was inspired by a passage in the Encyclopaedia Britannica:

"It is also evident that Romance languages have been retreating south before
German for some time, and it is probable that Romance tongues were used in
the whole of Switzerland and parts of Bavaria and Austria until roughly the
9th to 10th century."

So, I came up with La Könze Jelbäzech, the County of Helvetia, where El Konz
Ludöwich I unified the country in 782 CE and managed to drive back the
Burgundian and Alemannic tribes. Currently a constitutional monarchy, under
Küng Ludöwich XII, it has a bicameral parliament headed by El Dön Märschalch
(lit. the Lord Marshal) and the country is ruled from Waren (Berne).

IIRC, there is a web-site for it: www.geocities.com/jelbazech/

Would this fit into Ill Bethisad?

Dan

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Ka yokonáu iti báyan: "cas'alyá abhiyo".

Ka tso iti mantabayan: "yama zaláyá
alánekayam la s'alika, cas'alika; ka yama
yavarryekayan arannáam la vácika, labekayam
vácika, ka ali cas'alyeko vanotira."
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Dan Jones
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