Re: Who's in Ill Bethisad anyway?

On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Robert Hailman wrote:

> Frank George Valoczy wrote:
> >
> > > "Y'mean my Germanic Soundshift Language? I'm going to get some work done
> > > on it today, it should have a name by then.
> > >
> > > I was thinking that maybe it would be spoken in modern day Switzerland,
> > > and maybe Austria also."
> > >
> >
> > Hm, that would toss a spanner in the works...Dalmatia, having been a part
> > of the Austro-Dalmatian Monarchy, subsequently the Austrian Empire, takes
> > a  great bit of influence from Austrian German...
>
> Yes, that could pose quite the problem. Hence the "maybe". I haven't
> worked out anything, really, with regards to the borders, so it's good
> that you mention this now.
soon i will have online several maps of dalmatia in history, including
austro-dalmatia.

>
> The other thing I was thinking is maybe not Austria, but Switzerland and
> north of there, maybe some of Bavaria. Certainly German would survive,
> because naturally my language would have a healthy amount of Germanic
> influence, too.
perhaps switzerland, swabia, aybe south tirolia too? it could well exist
within historical austria and aybe even modern austria (of which i dont
know the western borders, only the eastern and southern where they border
on slovakia, hungary and croatia. it could be a regional/minority language
there, but having eysterraischisch as the official language?

-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy

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