Northumbrian [THDC]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersNorthumbrian is spoken in Nordembreland.
Species
Human/humanoid
Language family relationships
Language treeGermanic
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ West Germanic
⤷ Anglo-Frisian
⤷ Anglic
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Old English
⤷ Old Northumbrian
⤷ Middle Northumbrian
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Northumbrian
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ West Germanic
⤷ Anglo-Frisian
⤷ Anglic
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Old English⤷ Old Northumbrian
⤷ Middle Northumbrian
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Northumbrian[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 | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m [m:] | n [n:] | [ɳ] | ŋ | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p [pʰ] | t [tʰ] | [ʈ]1 [ʈʰ]2 | k [kʰ] | ||||||||||||||||
| Fricative | [β]3 | f | v | [ð]4 | s | z | [ʂ]5 | [ʐ]6 | [ç]7 | [x]8 | [ɣ] | [χ]9 | ʁ | h | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | l [l:] | [ɭ]10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | ʍ | [w]11 | |||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /p/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /z/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /ʁ/
- allophone of /l/
- allophone of /k/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i: | y: | ɨ: | ʉ: | u: | |||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʏ | ʊ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e e: | ø ø: | ɘ [ɘ:] | ɵ [ɵ:] | o o: | |||||
| Mid | [ə] | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ [ɛ:] | œ [œ:] | ɔ [ɔ:] | |||||||
| Near-open | [ɐ] | |||||||||
| Open | ɑ ɑ: | |||||||||
| Polyphthongs | eɪ | oʊ | øʏ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Northumbrian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| NorthumbrianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| a/ɑ/, /ɑ:/ | á/o:/, /ɔ/ | b/p/, [β] | d/t/, [ð] | e/ɛ/, /e:/, [ə] | é/eɪ/, /e/ | f/f/, [p] | g/k/, [ɣ], [w], [j] | h/h/, [ç], [x] | i/ɘ/, /ɨ:/ |
| í/i:/, /ɪ/ | j/j/ | k/k/, [kʰ] | l/l/ | m/m/ | n/n/ | o/ɔ/, /o:/ | ó/o/, /oʊ/ | p/p/, [pʰ] | r/ʁ/, [χ] |
| s/z/, /s/ | t/t/, [tʰ] | u/ʉ:/, /ɵ/ | ú/u:/, /ʊ/ | v/v/, [f] | y/ɨ:/, /ɘ/ | ý/y:/, /ʏ/ | ä/ɛ/, /e:/ | ö/œ/, /ø:/ | ő/ø/, /øʏ/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||
