Re: political Zera

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>> From: Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
>
>> What about a Dano-Inuit creole? But I think more interesting would be
>> a Juto-Inuit creole. The really really old dialects in Jutland are
>> almost entirely non-intelligible to Eastern Danes. So perhaps a form
>> of Danish could have evolve in those territories from some older form
>> of Juttish. I'm reminded of Afrikaans and Dutch. I'm part Juttish myself
>> so I could contribute. Maybe I should join the Hangkerim mailing list
>> for that.
>
>Make it a Norse/Inuit creole, perhaps --- I don't see how speakers of
>anything like modern Jutland dialects would have been present in any
>significant numbers on Greenland.
I'm not up to par on Zera's history. But in *our* world, the Nordics
in Greenland died out in the early Middle Ages. When Danes came back
to Greenland, it was already after the Renaissance. I was picturing
the same situation in Zera. Since Northern Jutland was in most places
infertile bogland, it would have seemed ideal for Jutlanders to move
to what is in our world Northern Canada -- not necessarily Greenland.
The Danes, afterall, colonized Northern Canada as well in the world of
Zera.

>Contrary to Romantic beliefs, the dialects found in Jutland now aren't
>'old'. They do preserve some very old features, but they are generally
>_less_ conservative than the inland Zealand dialects that formed the
>basis for current Standard Danish. At least that's what I was always
>told.
I was refering to the generation of Jutlanders who are old -- those born
before the German occupation. Relative to Jutlanders who are born after
1975, these older generation Jutlanders speak an 'old' dialect. They
are certainly NOT "speaking Danish" when I hear them. ;-)

-kristian- 8)