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==History==
==History==
Gloms preserve much of the old Germanic oral tradition. (Think "what if Beowulf was written by a Muslim")
Hasien Ytfield was a somewhat controversial Simon Stevin-like figure who reformed the language, by essentially creating and promoting his own dialect of Glommish (which eventually turned into modern American Glommish dialects) -- he was a scholar of Germanic philology and invented coinages based on Old English and Old Dutch; he also published a dictionary of the ancient Langobardic language.
 
Hasen Ytfield was a somewhat controversial Simon Stevin-like figure who reformed the language, by essentially creating and promoting his own dialect of Glommish (which eventually turned into modern American Glommish dialects) -- he was a scholar of Germanic philology and invented coinages based on Old English and Old Dutch; he also published a dictionary of the ancient Langobardic language.


==Orthography==
==Orthography==
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''Fí úr, lió Atiénierie, háþ niumen vichtied án av mínem bievráżeriem, vyt ik yncz; sá bielióvvirczend spriákenь sí, þat ik sialv hadie jénachtь ferżaten for ik viérie. Áltbieachtied hánь sí gesażd tvíls ynfat sanþes.''
''Fí úr, lió Atiénierie, háþ niumen vichtied án av mínem bievráżeriem, vyt ik yncz; sá bielióvvirczend spriákenь sí, þat ik sialv hadie jénachtь ferżaten for ik viérie. Áltbieachtied hánь sí gesażd tvíls ynfat sanþes.''


=== Súre 1: Þá Erupneng (tr. Hasen Ytfield) ===
=== Súre 1: Þá Erupneng (tr. Hasien Ytfield) ===
The syntax and diction used are typical of puristic, archaizing Glommish.
The syntax and diction used are typical of puristic, archaizing Glommish.
# Im namenь þes geniáþichenь, líchtliátichenь Gudes.
# Im namenь þes geniáþichenь, líchtliátichenь Gudes.