Thiedish

Thiedish is a direct descendant of Middle English and a sibling to English and Scots. Unlike English, it preserves most of the original lexis inherited from Old English. Comparable to Scots, Thiedish has moderate influences from Old Norse, Low German, French and Latin. Old English and Modern English both exert considerable influence upon new vocabulary.

Setting
The language developed as a scholarly lingua franca under the auspices of the English Academy in response to the outright borrowing of foreign terms. The Academy's objective was to establish grammar rules and standardisation for the newly burgeoning Saxon tongue throughout Mediaeval Britain.

Alphabet
Thiedish uses the Frankish/Carolingian alphabet, a descendant of the Latin, in conjunction with some Old English letters. Combinations of letters can be used to produce single phonemes, as in English.

Phonotactics
Consonant clusters are common, and phonotactic rules for Thiedish are the same as Old and Middle English. Clusters 'kn-', 'gn-', 'fn-', etc. are pronounced as they are written.

Typology
Thiedish is a Subject Verb Object (SVO) language, and specifically, a V2 language.

Articles
Articles are similar to those in other West Germanic languages.

Example text
The Lord's Prayer in Thiedish

Ouser Fader,

ðie art in hevens

ȝehálged sij ðijn naam.

Ðijn rijche cum, ðijn will werþ duon, on erþ�as hit is in hevens.

Ouser dæȝliche bread ȝiv ous tuodǽȝ, ond forȝív ous ouser schilds as wie forȝíveþ ouser schildands.

Ond lead ous noaght intuo costning, ok alíes ous from ivel.

Ðann ðijn is ðe rijche ond ðe meaght ond ðe wulder foréaver. Forsúoþ.