How about a conlang that is English but with all or most of the
French/Latin/Greek out of it?
Would it look alot like Dutch or Frisian or what?
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tristan Alexander McLeay" <conlang@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: Reinventing NATLANGs
> On 11/07/06, Michael Adams <abrigon@...> wrote:
> >
> > Niederdeutsch does that include in some aspects English? Or
was the shift
> > the divide between Frisian and English?
> >
> > What about dielects/seperate lanugages like Dutch or
Yiddish? As well as
> > forms outside of what is now Germany and related areas..
>
> Yiddish is a High German language (i.e. a descendant of Middle
High
> German e.g. it's had a substanital portion of the 2nd
consonant
> shift), but it's not "Hochdeutsch". But as for the rest the
term "Low
> German" is sometimes used to include Dutch (there is or was
till
> relatively recently a dialect continuum between Highest German
and
> Dutch), but rarely if ever English and Frisian, which are just
(not
> High German) West Germanic languages (and no dialect continuum
exists
> between them and Dutch/German, tho Frisian has been influenced
by
> Dutch/German to a greater extent, and much less by French).
>
> Note that "East Frisian Low Saxon" is a different language
form "East
> Frisian". One is the dialect of Low Saxon (Low German) spoken
in East
> Frisia in Germany; the other is an eastern form of Frisian
spoken in
> Germany.
>
> > English seemed to have had some Nordic influences from an
early day, even
> > before the move to Britain.
>
> English is based on dialects that were spoken on the same
peninsula as
> Danish/Old Norse, so there's probably some sort of
similarities. It's
> still clearly West Germanic, though. But I think i-umlaut was
most
> complete in Old English and North Germanic...
>
> --
> Tristan