RE: Re: Alkorings and Heortlings

From: Mike Holmes <mike_c_holmes_at_...>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 10:06:22 -0600

>From: "Jeff Richard" <richaje_at_...>
>
>I think Peter overstates this.� The Alakoringites of south Peloria are
>or at least were Heortlings.�

So I was reading how there are Theyalan tribes in Railos. And, of course, Prax. Now I know that mountain ranges serve to cause linguistic drift over time as they make travel difficult (perhaps impossible in some cases), but was there any contact with the north or south tribes with the tribes of the east and west when Dragon Pass was off limits?

In any case, the separation in question lasted only a couple of centuries, correct? That's enough time for linguistic drift to cause north and south to separate somewhat linguistically, but not enough likely to make them very far from each other. Consider that despite four centuries (OK, two centruries since we were colonies, and only one without modern communications), the Atlantic ocean, and pentambic iambeter that I can make out Shakespeare. To say nothing of the ease with which I can understand the English of modern British people.

A lot depends, therefore, on how different the tribes' languages were before they became separated to the north and south.

Mike

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