Dan Jones wrote:
>
> 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:
Urk. This mucks thins up a little. Now there are two Germanic based
Romancelang.
> "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/
I get the "I haven't started building my site yet" page. Ook.
> Would this fit into Ill Bethisad?
Maybe we could fit *both* our langs in Ill Bethisad. Y'know, side by
side? Depending on where the two of them are spoken, we could pull it
off. What say the authorities of Ill Bethisad?
-- Robert