Re: CHAT: Is there a conlang inspired in Old English?

Quoting John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

> =?iso-8859-1?q?=C1ngel=20Serrano?= scripsit:
>
> > I have a question: Does anybody know any conlang inspired in Old English?
>
> Absolutely!  Damon Lord's Wessisc, spoken on the Isle of Wight in
> Ill Bethisad, is just what you ordered.
>
> http://members.lycos.co.uk/damonmlord/wessisc/lang.html provides
> both linguistic and concultural information.
I know this may sound vaguely like heresy 8P, but I do
find the borrowing of initial mutation a little odd. It
strikes me as the kind of feature a language would borrow
only under truly *massive* sociolinguistic pressure from
some other language that has it, and usually that much
pressure leads to language obsolescence and even language
death.  (A very cool idea, but still...)

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