Re: Whatever happened to Cosseran?

On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 02:09:54PM -0800, Barry Garcia wrote:
> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >A cultural exchange between Montrei and Arveuna!
>
> Montrei is quite open to cultural exchanges. After all there's a fair
> number of people descended from French colonists who decided to try to
> make a living there, especially after hearing glowing reports about the
> greatness of the area.
>
> :)
> >
> >
> >Where in Europe do they come from? The Montreianos, I mean.
>
>
> Originally from somewhere in Spain, but I havent figured out where. I'm
> thinking perhaps a small region somewhere near France, Catala, maybe
> Galicia, but it's difficult cause the language resembles many different
> Romance langs (at least I think it does). I picked Spain because i wanted
> the timeline here to be very similar, but instead of Spain trying to
> settle the land with speakers of Castilian, the settlers who chose to come
> (in droves,a nd really the only ones) were Montreianos.
Perhaps I should see if I can get Lainesco to fit into ill old Bethisad
before all the prime real estate's taken :) I really don't know where it
would fit, though I've thought a bit about it... I'm planning for it to
resemble Iberian Romance, but it might have some Gallo-Romance or even
Italo-Romance features eventually... or maybe not. So Iberia, maybe also the
south of Gaul near the Pyrenees, might work... However, I've been told that
the name (<*Latiniscu) would be most plausible in an area where a
Latin/Romance language is somehow out of place, such as how the Romanian
language came to be called Romanian simply because it was the primary reflex
of the Romans' language in that area, surrounded by non-Romance languages;
the -isc- in *Latiniscu seems to suggest a Germanic source, so the general
idea I've developed is that it's in some Romance-speaking enclave surrounded
by Germanic-speakers. Perhaps in the middle of Visigothic Spain?

Anyway, any comments would be welcome. (And actually, if anyone has an idea
to place Lainesco in a reality less divergent from our own than Ill Beth,
that'd be fine too.)

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Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo