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Apr. 24th, 2012 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stakebaitSo dinner and pie out with a friend turned into worldbuilding a new shared project, like you do. And now we need help.
Does anyone here understand linguistic drift? If you stuck a bunch of people who all spoke different languages on the same slow boat and expected them to establish a colony at the other end, what would happen? A bunch of language enclaves? A single lingua franca based on the most populous language, or some other criteria? A new hybrid? A multilingual population?
How much lack of communication is necessary for two populations that originally spoke the same language to plausibly drift apart?
Does anyone here understand linguistic drift? If you stuck a bunch of people who all spoke different languages on the same slow boat and expected them to establish a colony at the other end, what would happen? A bunch of language enclaves? A single lingua franca based on the most populous language, or some other criteria? A new hybrid? A multilingual population?
How much lack of communication is necessary for two populations that originally spoke the same language to plausibly drift apart?
