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'''English in the Irta timeline''' (Northern Hivantish: ''Yȧzalathā Nowā'', Irta Irish: ''an Ásailis'', Irta French: ''Asalais'', Irta Latin: ''lingua | '''English in the Irta timeline''' (Northern Hivantish: ''Yȧzalathā Nowā'', Irta Irish: ''an Ásailis'', Irta French: ''Asalais'', Irta Latin: ''lingua Ingoelica'') is Indo-European and pretty much has exactly the same vocabulary and grammar as our English, but with a very different history and orthography created by Praimhín. In particular, it is an [[Azalic]] language, not a Germanic one. Also missing are some loans from German and Modern Scandinavian such as ''schadenfreude'' and ''smörgåsbord''. Words (even words directly inherited from PIE) may not have the same etymologies as in our English. | ||
Some idioms we think of as quintessentially Englishy such as ''make up one's mind'', ''make out'' ('to tell') could be a result of Irish influence in Irta | Some idioms we think of as quintessentially Englishy such as ''make up one's mind'', ''make out'' ('to tell') could be a result of Irish influence in Irta | ||