User:Pisceesumsprecan/West Germanic language

History

The West Germanic language first became widespread in 1921 when it replaced German in official functions. This was one year after S.C. Anderson headed a successful campaign to persuade civilians in Schleswig-Holstein to vote for independence as opposed to joining Germany or Denmark, praising the 'distinctive' history of the region, and sixteen years after the first West Germanic, then Piscean, World Conference. A continued political campaign after the declaration of independence highlighted the presence of the Anglic Frisian people, using this to romanticise an image of the Varangian Guard, whose descendants had settled in Xenia since defending the Byzantine Empire.

Anderson at first presented the artificial language as a dialect of Xenian, on which it was modelled minus the Greek influence and with added elements of German morphology. Later, his propaganda established the 'discovery' of philologists of a great language (named West Germanic after the family whence it came) comprising two dialects: Xenian West Germanic and German West Germanic. He had already planned to make Xenia a protectorate and now only needed an excuse to do so.