Old Neapolitan [ONAP]
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Language type
Proto-Conlang
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Neapolitan
Old Neapolitan is a linguistic reconstruction of the Neapolitan language spoken by Giovanni Trentin in the 15th century (he's a fictional character of my series Biverse Theory, by the way). Old Neapolitan, mixed with other dialects such as Sicilian, Venetian, and Tuscan would give birth to Old Regentish, which would eventually become
Regento-Meridese , a dialect continuum with several mutually intelligible dialects spoken throughout the Biverse, the Gayverse and Arusia fictional universes.
The method I use to reconstruct it is the following: I try to compare a Neapolitan term to its Vulgar Latin. For example, the word for ear is recchia. Then I compare it to Latin: auricula or oric(u)la. Then I guess the evolution of the word, step by step: oːrɪk(ʊ)la → orekla → *orekkja → *ərekkja → *rekkja → *rekkjə. I can then suppose that *orekkja or *ərekkja (I don't know if vowel reduction already existed in older forms of Neapolitan, though) could be the proto-forms that gave birth to modern /rekkja/.
Old Neapolitan is a linguistic reconstruction of the Neapolitan language spoken by Giovanni Trentin in the 15th century (he's a fictional character of my series Biverse Theory, by the way). Old Neapolitan, mixed with other dialects such as Sicilian, Venetian, and Tuscan would give birth to Old Regentish, which would eventually become
Regento-Meridese , a dialect continuum with several mutually intelligible dialects spoken throughout the Biverse, the Gayverse and Arusia fictional universes.The method I use to reconstruct it is the following: I try to compare a Neapolitan term to its Vulgar Latin. For example, the word for ear is recchia. Then I compare it to Latin: auricula or oric(u)la. Then I guess the evolution of the word, step by step: oːrɪk(ʊ)la → orekla → *orekkja → *ərekkja → *rekkja → *rekkjə. I can then suppose that *orekkja or *ərekkja (I don't know if vowel reduction already existed in older forms of Neapolitan, though) could be the proto-forms that gave birth to modern /rekkja/.
Sample of Old Neapolitan[view] Tutti li umani nasceno liberi ed eguali in dignitate e diritti. Isse hanno ragione e conscienza ed hanno da agire 'nfra isse con spirito de fraternitate.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.[view all texts]
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeItalic
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
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Latin
⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Italo-Dalmatian
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Old Neapolitan
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
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Latin⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Italo-Dalmatian
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Old NeapolitanPhonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||
| Fricative | β | f | s | ʃ | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||
| Blends | ʃe | dʒi | dʒe | ʃi | tʃi | tʃe | kw |
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||
| Open | a | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Neapolitan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Old NeapolitanOrthography | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh// | Ii/i/ | Jj/j/ | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Qq// | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/β/ | Zz/t͡s/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order | ||||||||||
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