Iermansc 2.0

=General Plan=

The key design goal of Iermansc 2.0 is to simulate the effects of language contact between a ruling Romance-speaking class and a subject Germanic-speaking class in the area roughly corresponding to OTL Bavaria and Austria. The chronology assumes the conquest of southern Germania was accomplished at least tentatively in the first century AD, with a period of several centuries of romanization.

=Northern Romance=

The Roman settlers of Germania came mostly from northern Italy, Norica and Rhaetia. Iermansc has the closest family resemblance to the Romansh, Ladin, Venetian and Fruilian. However, due to its location on the periphery of the Empire, it shares some features with Iberian Romance and Romanian.

=Pre-Old High German=

The state of the language of the conquered Bavarians can best be characterized as somewhere between Germanic and Old High German, namely Pre-OHG. The consonant and vowel shifts which distinguish between proto-Germanic and OHG were under way during the occupation. Reflexes of these shifts affect the phonological development of the language. In addition, the vocabulary is significantly influenced.