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Englecymrǣc was a naturalistic language spoken by a small group of Welsh Anglo-Saxons who spoke a language which stemmed from Old English and Old Welsh. This language arose when a faction of the Saxon settlers rebelled and eventually left their people to travel West across Britain to modern-day Wales. There they met a small group of Welsh-speaking people. The group of Saxons didn't try to conquer the Welsh since they were few in numbers and half-starved. Instead, they were welcomed and thus assimilated into the village. For a few hundred years they lived there, until with one thing and another the population dwindled and the village was abandoned, the remnants scattering in different directions. they were never heard from again, until the late 20th century, when a wooden chest with various documents were found in modern-day Wales, some in Old English or Anglocumeric. It contained several unknown literary works of fiction, and excerpts from Beowulf. While most were in Anglocumeric, the Beowulf excerpts were written in both, which helped to decipher the lost language.

Much of the phonology of Englecymrǣc is speculative, but guesses can be made about how things sounded. It is assumed that many sounds merged to form a sort of compromise in order to "appease" both groups.

Many of the phonemic vowel changes in Englecymrǣc are directly from Welsh, but a few formed on their own. Like Welsh, many of the changes that occurred are a result of a vowel being displaced from being the nucleus of the final syllable when a suffix is attached. This type of mutation is sometimes called ''centring''. When a vowel was displaced from the final syllable, it would change to a more central vowel sound, thus the front /i/ > central /ɨ/ or the back /u/ > central-back /ʊ/. This change does not occur if the syllable is stressed.

Like both Old Welsh and Old English, Englecymrǣc has no indefinite article. While many grammatical forms are taken from Old English, articles differ in this respect, since they do not decline for grammatical case, and, like Welsh, differentiate proximal and distal modes.  

Englecymrǣc has two degrees, comparative and superlative. Comparative is marked with ''-ry'' and ''-osþ'' or ''-esþ''. These come mainly from the Old English ''-ra'' and ''-ost''.

Englecymrǣc prepositions are largely derived from Welsh, however, these are often closely related to Old English as well. Contrary to the Welsh influence, they are not conjugated and function the same regardless of person or case.

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