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

quick question: in Rumantsch, how does one articulate the sound spelled
with 'tg'?

On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, 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:
>
> "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
> ----- Original Message -----
>
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