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Gloms preserve much of the old Germanic oral tradition. (Think "what if Beowulf was written by a Muslim") | Gloms preserve much of the old Germanic oral tradition. (Think "what if Beowulf was written by a Muslim") | ||
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== | ||