Re: Brithenig

On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 12:09:00 +0200 BP Jonsson <bpj@...> writes:
> The Adur Bursen-Mihr was (and There it still is) one of the three
> most holy
> fires of Sassanian Persia.  (The word I was after was "scion", BTW,
> not
> "sapling"!)  Since Persia There wasn't converted to Islam it
> remained
> Zoroastrian.  In the middle of the 9th century CE Shah Jazdegird V
> went to
> war against the Uighur empire in Central Asia, nominally because he
> considered their Manichaean religion as heretic Zoroastrianism.  The
> eventual outcome was a number of variously Zoroastrian or
> Nestorian-Christian Turkic states in Central Asia.  The impact of
> the
> Mongol conquest was somewhat greater There than Here, in that a
> somewhat
> greater area of Central Asia, plus Siberia, became Mongol-speaking
> and
> Buddhist.  The western Mongols who beset Russia were mostly
> Nestorians
> There, but that didn't mean that their relations with the Orthodox
> Russians
> was any better -- rather the contrary!   Another difference between
> Here
> and There is that the Khazars preserve their ethnic identity and
> Judaic
> religion to this day.  Several Algonquian tribes of Eastern
> Vinlandia also
> were converted to Judaism by Sephardim who emigrated -- voluntarily
> -- from
> Spain in the 13th century CE.  Like the Khazars of the Old World
> they found
> themselves pressed by Arabs and Islamized Arawaks pressing north
> from the
> Caribbean while converting the tribes of what Here is South-Western
> US, and
> the likewise imperialist Iroquois who had been Christianized by the
> Norse,
> English and Basque.  The Basque language still has a sizable
> presence in
> Vinlandia, though most of the speakers are not of Old World descent.
> /BP
>  B.Philip Jonsson  <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@netg.se
.

Wow, interesting...
In the universe of my Judean Romancelang (which is hibernating right
now), one of Judea's official languages is Modern Khazar, since there was
a mass migration (refered to Hebraicly as _gâlût hazâpôn_ [gAluws
has.APown] "the Exile of the North") of Khazarians to Judea when their
homeland was conquered by Russia.
I planned on also making the Modern Khazar conlang (having convergence
with Judean Romance), but i could never find anything anywhere about the
Khazar language, besides a picture at www.khazaria.com of a Khazar
engraving that says _hoqurüm_ "i have read [it]" according to the
caption.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "...but she did not know that in my eyes there is no difference between
my days which have passed and the days of Noahh of which i have heard..."
~ shmu'el hanagid