Re: Brithenig universe

Am 04/05 08:56  James Campbell yscrifef:

> I think my question was really whether Jameld, being a West Germanic tongue
> spoken in Northern Alsace by a people descended from migrated Frisians,
> would have any interaction with any of the peoples known to inhabit the
> Brithenig universe.
>
> The Jameld version of reality is largely the same as the one we have to put
> up with, except that at some point currently undefined in the 8th or 9th C a
> small group of Frisian-speakers left Frisia and roamed about a bit for a
> century or so, eventually settling around the River Sauer in Alsace. No one
> else was affected.
>
> Are the inhabitants and languages of France, Germany and Benelux basically
> the same *there* as here?
>
Yes.  I don't think we have seen any major folkwanderings in that part
of *there* yet.

Other answers:

[ll] is a lateral fricative in Brithenig.  I don't think there is any
indication it was palatal.

I think I read somewhere that both the placenames Preston and Prestatyn
come from the same source OE Preosta tu:n, Priests' enclosure.

[y] in Brithenig has the same value as [i], either /'i/ or /I/.


- andrew.
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