Re: Who's in Ill Bethisad anyway?

Frank George Valoczy wrote:
>
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Robert Hailman wrote:
>
> > Frank George Valoczy wrote:
> > >
> > > > "Y'mean my Germanic Soundshift Language? I'm going to get some work done
> > > > on it today, it should have a name by then.
> > > >
> > > > I was thinking that maybe it would be spoken in modern day Switzerland,
> > > > and maybe Austria also."
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hm, that would toss a spanner in the works...Dalmatia, having been a part
> > > of the Austro-Dalmatian Monarchy, subsequently the Austrian Empire, takes
> > > a  great bit of influence from Austrian German...
> >
> > Yes, that could pose quite the problem. Hence the "maybe". I haven't
> > worked out anything, really, with regards to the borders, so it's good
> > that you mention this now.
>
> soon i will have online several maps of dalmatia in history, including
> austro-dalmatia.
Ah. That'd be helpful.
> >
> > The other thing I was thinking is maybe not Austria, but Switzerland and
> > north of there, maybe some of Bavaria. Certainly German would survive,
> > because naturally my language would have a healthy amount of Germanic
> > influence, too.
>
> perhaps switzerland, swabia, aybe south tirolia too? it could well exist
> within historical austria and aybe even modern austria (of which i dont
> know the western borders, only the eastern and southern where they border
> on slovakia, hungary and croatia. it could be a regional/minority language
> there, but having eysterraischisch as the official language?
That'd work. We could have it spoken in westernmost Austria, either as a
minority language, or have Austria's western border in Ill Bethiasad be
just a smidgen west of where they are in our wold.

--
Robert