EAK (was: GSF revisited)

andrew wrote:
> On Tue, 08 May 2007, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
>
>
>>Wouldn't then the best scenario be one where (South) Western
>>Europe was Graecized rather than Latinized, and
>>Παιάνος spoke a "Ephellenic" language derived from
>>Greek, and the only classical prestige languageof his Europe
>>was Attic and Koiné Greek? The scenario which comes most
>>readily to mind is one where Alexander survived and
>>proceeded to conquer the west, I think. (Now of course that
>>would be an extremely interesting althistory in its own
>>right: what would the various Ephellenic languages look
>>like, for starters? :-)
>>
>
> I believe Arnold Toynbee speculated on a counterfactual along these
...and of course there'd be no Romancelangs (and therefore no RomConlang
list   :)

It would present a very interesting alternative linguistic history as well!
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R A Brown wrote:
[snip]
 > I guess if Alexander had conquer the west and his descendants had
 > defeated the Carthaginians, the Greek, not Latin, would have become the
 > auxlang of the whole of medieval Europe. We could then have a scenario
 > in which in 1903 a certain Professor Josephos Peanou proposed reviving a
 > "Greek without flexions" as an artificial auxlang    :)

I think I'll stick with this at the moment as a "working scenario", then
JP would presumably have called the language _Ελληνική άνευ κλίσι_
/Eleni'ke anew 'klisi/ which would be abbreviated as ΕΑΚ or EAK. I
propose to use this rather than the somewhat makeshift 'FG' that I have
been using in recent mails.

A mail on nouns, adjectives and, possibly, pronouns will hopefully
follow shortly   ;)
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