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* Monkchester (blue) — The privileges of the ''Haliwerfolc'' have been much abused over the centuries by coal merchants and slave traders; though Monkchester itself was no slave port, there is not a building in the city unstained with the trade's blood. Best known today for the antics of its Lord President's social media influencer son. | * Monkchester (blue) — The privileges of the ''Haliwerfolc'' have been much abused over the centuries by coal merchants and slave traders; though Monkchester itself was no slave port, there is not a building in the city unstained with the trade's blood. Best known today for the antics of its Lord President's social media influencer son. | ||
* Gow ([[wikipedia:Dutch language|Gowsh]]: ''Gouw'') (rose) — 21st-century mercantile Protestant republicanism. Once had the world's greatest colonial empire, now its largest financial services industry. | * Gow ([[wikipedia:Dutch language|Gowsh]]: ''Gouw'') (rose) — 21st-century mercantile Protestant republicanism. Once had the world's greatest colonial empire, now its largest financial services industry. | ||
* Roland (grey) — Normans without the Latin influence, basically; they speak English because it's funny. "nooo that's not how languages work!!!" Don't care. | |||
* All non-Eastern Romance languages except Dalmatian are extinct. The !Italian and !Iberian peninsulas have been thoroughly Germanicised and, respectively, Slavicised and Arabicised. | |||
* Azadistan | * Azadistan | ||
* Saranidia | * Saranidia | ||
* Sharifistan | * Sharifistan | ||
Revision as of 17:55, 14 February 2023
Most original NS closed-world region map
- Allsaxony (green) — Großwestsachsen. In using Anglish rather than a West Saxon-derived conlang I am of course merely following the example of using one language to represent another, fictional one set by a certain childhood friend marrier and holder of the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship.
- Caitland (Caitish: Cataibh) (turquoise) — Dalriadan gf Bernician bf
- Cumberland (Cumbrish: Cumbry) (brown) — In our world, Cumbric died out and Welsh lived; here, it's the other way round.
- Monkchester (blue) — The privileges of the Haliwerfolc have been much abused over the centuries by coal merchants and slave traders; though Monkchester itself was no slave port, there is not a building in the city unstained with the trade's blood. Best known today for the antics of its Lord President's social media influencer son.
- Gow (Gowsh: Gouw) (rose) — 21st-century mercantile Protestant republicanism. Once had the world's greatest colonial empire, now its largest financial services industry.
- Roland (grey) — Normans without the Latin influence, basically; they speak English because it's funny. "nooo that's not how languages work!!!" Don't care.
- All non-Eastern Romance languages except Dalmatian are extinct. The !Italian and !Iberian peninsulas have been thoroughly Germanicised and, respectively, Slavicised and Arabicised.
- Azadistan
- Saranidia
- Sharifistan