Re: Pidgin Gothic (Was: Re: New Lang, but Just For Fun)

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Rob Nierse wrote:
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>BTW, I have some more questions:
>1) Thinking of loanwords, I was thinking of what happened in
>that world. What made those Goths become so powerful that their
>language became the trading language (and not Russian or
>Turkish or ...). Anyone with a suggestion on this conculture topic?
There were, of course, Gothic speakers in the Crimea at least up to
the 16th century. Perhaps if sometime between the 4th and 16th
centuries or so, these other Goths are able to forge themselves into
a halfway decent and powerful state, perhaps based upon Black Sea
trade. They'd have to able to either fight off or absorb waves of
incomming barbarians, and eventually Turks and Russians.

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>2) What do you think, will the [T] (thorn) be maintained or will
>it be replaced by another sounds (because the spekaers of
>the other languages don't have that sounds) like [t], [s] or [f].
Crimean Gothic has thorn. Look up Alphonse Juilland's "Crimean Gothic"
for more. If you can't find it, I have it and will you help as I may.

Padraic.

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>What do you think? (or as Dutch people say: what do you fink of it?)
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>Rob
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