Re: GSF revisited
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 8, 2007, 6:20 |
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On 7.5.2007 R A Brown wrote:
> It's meant to have a similar relationship to ancient Greek
> as "Latino sine flexione" has to Classical Latin.
And later:
> BTW I'm dropping the "Bactrian Greeks move eastward"
> scenario for the moment - it producing other distractions
> and is probably not plausible.
Still it caught my imagination, as you saw. I may take it up
some time in the future, if you don't mind.
> I'll just concentrate and keeping the thing as close
> to early Koine Greek as I can, but dropping,
> hopefully, all grammatical flexions. I'll return the
> question of a conhistory/ althistory when the thing
> has taken better shape.
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? :-)
/Ευδαίμων Φιλίππος
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