Romance languages and Germanic languages, both evolved from Proto-Indo-European language (PIE), are diversely different in grammar, vocabulary and phonetics. It is thus evident that, while speakers of languages in the same branch can better decipher each other, a speaker of a Germanic language can find it difficult to understand a Romance language speaker. Since both branches are descendants of PIE, it can be postulated that an artificial language can be made to re-merge the two branches. As an experiment, I developed Fleutesprache (Fleute similar to fluid, and hence "glib" and Sprache from German, "language").
Fleutesprache is an a posteriori language, since its grammar is modeled after Latin (most declension and conjugation) and German (certain adjective declension) and has V2 word order, a characteristic of many Germanic languages. It inherits the compound words of German, while having the South-European style of phonemes. Its vocabulary comes from languages like German, Latin, French, and English.
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