Introduction
Anglian is the term normally used for the dialects of Old English (or Anglo-Jutic-Saxon) that represent the speech of the descendants of the Angles. Within said classification are two subdialects, that probably would evolve into languages with a Danish-Norwegian type scenario of mutual intelligeability. The first is known as Mercian and takes up the Modern English Midlands and is somewhat the modern standard, while Northumbrian was spoken in Northern England and Scots- speaking zones of Scotland before devolving into Northern English and Modern Scots; this particular form also has a significant Norse influence (as does Mercian, but it's downplayed).
However, sometime around the 800s-900s-1000s, England that spoke Mercian (the focus) was almost entirely either a) captured by the Vikings, or b) culturally subsumed by the West Saxons (see Herr Ratatoskr's West Saxon). This, among tremendous loans, phonological morphing, grammatical simplification, and syntaxial adjustment left the possible impression of the beginning stages of a Norse-Anglian Creole that became subsumed into modern English alongside mergers with West Saxon and Kentish, which were conquered by the later Norman-ruled England.
This project is intended for viewing what would happen if England, alongside Mercian lacked Norman and scaled maybe back Norse influences upon themselves.
Yes, I'm aware this seems a lot like I'm hopping on the anglang baindwain, but it's somewhat more of an attempt to find an easier extension to Inkhorn English/ Anglish done with info attempted to be formatted in the style of a cross between Sevly's Deevie, Hakaku's Okinawan Tutorial on the CBB, and Herr Ratatoskr's West Saxon Rebooted thread.
I've got a schedule of articles below. May take a long time before completion, it's called take one because I might be able to do this well on my first try.
Scratchpad here.
Enjoy.
Contents
0. Introduction
1. (Constructed) History of Mercia and Northumbria
•400-850
•850-1150
•1150-1450
•1450-1850
•1850-Present
2. Old Anglian
•Sound Changes and Orthography
•Inventory and Sandhi
•Nominals 1
•Pronouns 1
•Particles 1
•Verbs 1
•Nominals 2
•Pronouns 2
•Particles 2
•Verbs 2
•Syntax
•Mercian and Northumbrian Split
3. Mercian- Northumbrian Split
•Orthography Changes and Phonologies
•Sandhi and Nominal Morphologies 1
•Nominal Morphologies 2 and Particles
•Verbs 1 and Syntax
•Pronominals
•Verbs 2
•Dialects
4. Middle Mercian
•Orthography
•Phonology
•Nominal Declension and Particles 1
•Verbs and Particles 2
•Pronominals
•Dialects
•Expansion
5. Late (Modern) Mercian
•Orthography
•Phonology
•Nominal Declension and Particles 1
•Verbs and Particles 2
•Pronominals
•Dialects
•Current Status
