Board Thread:Article Discussion/@comment-4504370-20130125232520/@comment-4504370-20130126001747

HS664 wrote: Exodvs wrote: HS664 wrote: Exodvs wrote: Monk the Cat wrote: From what I know of Mobius... there were a few surviving humans (who rebuilt their population), which communicated with the mobians just fine. So I'm guessing they still speak regular English. In the thousands of years between when Earth became Mobius and the present timeline, couldn't have English radically changed? No. They were WAY too isolated for that possiblity Isolation doesn't always ensure a lack of sound changes. Spain, for example, was isolated from the rest of Europe, but still had some sound changes from Latin. (confusion of v and b, the c being pronounced th, etc). Iceland was really, REALLY isolated, but yet had sound changes from Old Norse. With a population of what? 4000? Within a single mountain?

Approximate population of the Proto-Germanics at the time Grimm's Law took place in a mountainous region as well.