Elfic Norse [EVNK]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersElfic Norse is spoken in Phoenix Galaxy.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Elfic Norse
Elvanorsk is a Germanic language spoken by elves and other living beings in the Phoenix Galaxy. It descended from the Nynorsk Norwegian spoken by the elves that colonized the Phoenix Galaxy about 1000 years ago. "Northern Elfic", a variety of Elvanorsk, has a distinct pronunciation, enough to diminish mutual intelligibility.
Sound changesː
er ə → a / _#
kː → gː / V_V
g → j / _[e,i]
D → ∅ / _#
k → tɕ ɕ g / _#
u → ua / _#
em ks → aŋ as / _#
tː → dː
ej el œy → ɛa øu oa
y → i *sporadic
uCC → uaC
ADDITIONAL RULES
er → ɐ / _$
r → ʁ
r → ɐ / _C
a → æ / C_C
d → ð / V_V
d t → ð / _#
b d g → b̥ d̥ g̥
v g → w {j ~ w} / _$
Its morphology has a very strong analytic tendency and the language has lost most of its inflections from Norwegian, and Old Norse. There's no distinction between weak and strong adjectives, nouns are divided into two genders (animate and inanimate) and can be inflected for definiteness and number, and may also get a genitive suffix ({-s}). Verbs have only six synthetic forms:
Verbs can also have a present perfect and a pluperfect formed with the verb håa conjugated in the present and past tenses respectively. The future tense is sometimes formed with the auxiliary verb skoa, but it's often either implied from the context or made explicit with the help of adverbs
Sound changesː
er ə → a / _#
kː → gː / V_V
g → j / _[e,i]
D → ∅ / _#
k → tɕ ɕ g / _#
u → ua / _#
em ks → aŋ as / _#
tː → dː
ej el œy → ɛa øu oa
y → i *sporadic
uCC → uaC
ADDITIONAL RULES
er → ɐ / _$
r → ʁ
r → ɐ / _C
a → æ / C_C
d → ð / V_V
d t → ð / _#
b d g → b̥ d̥ g̥
v g → w {j ~ w} / _$
Its morphology has a very strong analytic tendency and the language has lost most of its inflections from Norwegian, and Old Norse. There's no distinction between weak and strong adjectives, nouns are divided into two genders (animate and inanimate) and can be inflected for definiteness and number, and may also get a genitive suffix ({-s}). Verbs have only six synthetic forms:
| Tense/Mood | Morpheme | Example | Meaning |
| Present/Infinitive | -e | bruk-e | use, uses, to use |
| Imperfect Past/Generic Past/Past Participle | -te ~ -de | bruk-te | used, was using |
| Present (Passive Voice) | -es | bruk-es | is used, is being used, to be used |
| Past (Passive Voice) | -tes ~ -des | bruk-tes | was used |
| Imperative | -Ø | bruk-Ø | use! |
Verbs can also have a present perfect and a pluperfect formed with the verb håa conjugated in the present and past tenses respectively. The future tense is sometimes formed with the auxiliary verb skoa, but it's often either implied from the context or made explicit with the help of adverbs
Language family relationships
Language treeGermanic
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ North Germanic
⤷ Old Norse
⤷ West Norse
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Norwegian Nynorsk
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Elfic Norse
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ North Germanic
⤷ Old Norse
⤷ West Norse
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Norwegian Nynorsk⤷
Elfic Norse[view] About GermanicThe Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of approximately 500 million people mainly in North America, Oceania, Western and Northern Europe. Proto-Germanic , which was spoken in approxima...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | ð | s | ʃ | ɕ | ʁ | h | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | y | ʉ | |||
| Close-mid | e | ø | o | |||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ɔ | |||
| Near-open | ɐ | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Elfic Norse. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Elfic NorseOrthography | |||||||||||
| ᚠ/f/ | ᚢ/ʉ/ | ᚨ/a/ | ᚱ/ʁ/ | ᚲ/k/ | ᚲᛃ/ɕ/ | ᚷ/g/ | ᚹ/v/ | ᚺ/h/ | ᚾ/n/ | ᛁ/i/ | ᛃ/j/ |
| ᛇ/ɛ/ | ᛈ/p/ | ᛊ/s/ | ᛊᚲᛃ/ʃ/ | ᛏ/t/ | ᛒ/b/ | ᛖ/e/ | ᛗ/m/ | ᛚ/l/ | ᛜ/ŋ/ | ᛞ/d/ | ᛟ/o/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order | |||||||||||
