I have been thinking lately about how 'historical conlangers' go about their work, and am thinking of eventually turning the thoughts into some kind of essay....
Hallo everybody, I began a West Germanic conlang many years ago. At the beginning it looked almost like High German without the second Germanic consonant ...
You could try the Germanic Lexicon Project at http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/ - theres a few useful bits and pieces there, including the "Wörterbuch der ...
No participating in the High German consonant shift, doesn't necessarily mean that the language must be strictly Ingvaeonic/North Sea Germanic. Take a look at...
Hi, ... 'Stad-steden' (city-cities) is the only exception I can think of. As for plural forms in general; in Dutch only the original weak declension has...
Thanks for your answers! I think I have to take a more careful look at the PGmc. nominal stems. I've seen some grammars of Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Low ...
If linguists *there* used the term "Germanic" for a group of northern Romance languages and dialects (aproximately covering the areas of *our* Hochdeutsch and...
... northern Romance languages and dialects (aproximately covering the areas of *our* Hochdeutsch and Mitteldeutsch), does anyone have any thoughts on what...
Because in *that* place, "Germanic" is a branch of the Romance language family tree (developed in a Roman Germania), and nothing to do with the language family...
Teutonic??? From the same root as DE Deutsch and NL Duits and Scandy Tysk and Italian tedesco. From the PG *theudh- root meaning "people". I assume you are...
... Well, I'm playing around with the language rather than the history, but you are spot on with the general "what if" premise - Romans cross the Rhine and ...
I think I'd vote for Teutonic as well (although how this would affect Jameld "Germanits" for Germanic and "Déttsaz" for German is another matter :-) Jameld,...
If in your alternate time-line, the Western Roman Empire suffers a similar fate as in ours, and breaks up accompanied by/caused by barbarian invasions, then...
I would also consider "Ingvaeonic". Why? Because only the the Southern /High German and Gothic germanic languages are not subject to the characteristic...
Is there somewhere online with a good summary of the orthography of earlier (circa mid 9th C) Althochdeutsch, in so far as there was such a thing? Any dialect...
Hi there, Go to http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/~c30310/ahdwbhin.html to download a PDF of a German to Old High German dictionary. Dan _____ From: Peter Collier ...
... This is of course the orthography used in modern grammars. AFAIK contemporary spelling was a lot more irregular, and most importantly AFAIK didn't mark...
Prices start at £78 now! I guess it's hard to come by. I shall be scouring the local reference library instead, I think! Peter ... From: "Melroch 'Aestan"...
Jameld will be 25 years old on Friday 14 September. Not very important in the grand scheme of things, but there you are. Greetings to all Germanic conlangers ...
Älvard J. te Kraamlep wrote/skröf: "Jameld will be 25 years old on Friday 14 September. Not very important in the grand scheme of things, but there you are."...
Jameld will be 25 years old on Friday 14 September. Not very important in the grand scheme of things, but there you are. Gratuleert från den försk vulk ouk ...
... Gratuleert från den försk vulk ouk Congratulations from the fursic people too. << Thanks Israel! I only sent my message yesterday once, I promise, but...
... Yes, that and/or Italian -eria. It obviously must have been borrowed before the Late Middle/Early Modern /i:/ > /ai/ change (which was contemporary with...
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