Verse:A TT-English-verse

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TT-English, take 2

Germanic and Balto-Slavic isoglosses now split differently between a TT-English branch and a Germano-Balto-Slavic satem branch (Riphean take 2)

Icelandic giblang?

Possibly related to Albionian? Should sound like Bgapian gibberish to Bgapian speakers

Portupie

PIE into European Portuguese gib

Bgapi Island

Home of a Greek dialect as well as an isolate Bgapian language -- it's assumed to be Nostratic

Phonology of Bgapian

p pʰ f v t tʰ θ ð ts tsʰ s/ʃ z/ʒ k kʰ x ɣ q m n ŋ mb nd ndz ŋɡ (in some dialects) w j ɾ l r ɮ a e i o u ə

aspirates are written as geminates as in Cypriot Greek and Kapingamarangi

Syntax of Bgapian

SOV, cases, suffixaufnahme, lots of participles

use phrasings from literary Koine Greek

Celtic

Galatian, Lepontic, Celtiberian, TT-Welsh

Turkey

Heavily multilingual and IE with its own sprachbund, includes Greek, a Romance language, Galatian, some Iranian languages, some surviving Anatolian languages

Hungary

Entirely IE?

Albionian

Britain is completely non-IE in this timeline?

America

Includes an Iroquoian-speaking country and an Uto-Aztecan-speaking country covering OTL's Southwestern US and Northern Mexico