Re: Thylean, continued

After apparently boring everyone to death, I'm going to change the subject
to pronouns, adverbs, and various random utility words in Thylean. Also,
I'd like to talk a bit about the alternate world in which Thyle is set.

So Thyle is the colony of a splinter group of Romans who left Rome when the
Republic collapsed, led by the Republic's main proponents, Brutus, Cicero,
various senators, intelligentsia, and others. Inspired by the legend of
Aeneas who left fallen Troy to start anew, founding Rome, the Republicans
headed out to the unknown to found a new democratic Rome. After a long
perilous voyage north to Britain, they took land in Caledonia (Scotland),
from where they sent out ships to find better places to stay. On Pliny's
account of a land far in the north called Thyle, they sent ships to the
north as well. So they found the island that we now call Iceland, alias
Thyle, to which they sailed and settled and prospered (the North Atlantic
has had extended periods of "warm" climate, such as in the Viking age,
which is why people bothered to settle Iceland and Greenland in the first
place).
  Ok, this story has already been posted. However, some of the settlers did
not want to risk the voyage to Thyle and abandon their settlement in
Caledonia; 10000 stayed behind, where they were to become Caledonians, yet
another group of Romans up north. Their language obviously took a rather
different course from that of Thylean, though some later contact between
the groups has effected a reapproach between the two languages. But
Thyleans and Caledonians have a hard time understanding each other even in
500 AD (when the posted version of Thylean is spoken).
  Thylean people have also long inhabited the islands between modern
Britain and Iceland, i.e. the modern Faroes, Orkneys, and Shetland. The
idiom of those small communities has also taken on a strong identity,
though its status as a separate language is yet blurred.
  Furthermore, after some feuds between powerful Thylean families, one
faction packed up and sailed west into the unknown; by then an honourable
solution among this race of wanderers. 200 years later, there are no
reports of their success, which has discouraged any further Thylean
expansion to the west.
  What is to happen later in the timeline is a major Viking expansion, a la
RW history, which brings a wave of Nordic settlers and raiders to the
Thylean region. The Northmen at first prey on the weaker Thylean
communities, but later on a mutual respect develops among the two cultures.
The external threat caused by the Northmen acts to unify the Thylean
people, resulting in the first real Thylean state (it had never been much
more than a "commonwealth", with no executive powers). The North Atlantic
becomes characterized by trade, cultural exchange, and migration of people,
with many Northmen coming to settle the Thylean islands. A widespread
Nordic-Thylean pidgin develops, used not only between Thyleans and
Northmen, but also between Thyleans from different islands.

  So, I've mapped out a lot of conlanging opportunities there; Caledonian,
Insular Thylean, possibly a New World Thylean, and best of all, the Nordic-
Thylean pidgin. The last would not be hard for me, except I'm not very
knowledgeable on how pidgins are made up. Caledonian would be hard for me,
as it calls for Celtic influence, while I'm not familiar with the Celtic
family.

Next post I hope to present Thylean adverbs, conjunctions, and pronouns of
all kinds. I should by then have enough to write some text.

Óskar