Unkish [UROS]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Unkish
Unkish is a Germanic conlang and mainly based on what has been reconstructed as Proto-Germanic by several linguists.
This conlang is intended to have a precise vocabulary and to be intuitive/original in how words are formed. The most notable feature of Unkish is its strong reliance on umlauting and nasal vowels, causing a high quantity of both vowels and diphthongs. Another feature is the introduction of future and imperfective verb endings.
The entirely fictional culture is thought to be settled in what is, in reality, major parts of the Ukraine. The Unkish people especially loaned words from Slavic and Turkic languages regarding wildlife and agriculture.
This conlang is intended to have a precise vocabulary and to be intuitive/original in how words are formed. The most notable feature of Unkish is its strong reliance on umlauting and nasal vowels, causing a high quantity of both vowels and diphthongs. Another feature is the introduction of future and imperfective verb endings.
The entirely fictional culture is thought to be settled in what is, in reality, major parts of the Ukraine. The Unkish people especially loaned words from Slavic and Turkic languages regarding wildlife and agriculture.
Sample of Unkish[view] Ëka vünskî hit ne hleotán skuldê ündír mainô stègâ, íþ sví dùnþ alô þäjós under svìþôn toimûn. Ak níst þesô völlíns. Alô vois völlín kunnúms íst hvot dùms gán uns gebaném täimín.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
[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 | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Other | ||||||||
| Nasal | m̥1 | m | n̥2 | n n: | ŋ̊ | ŋ | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t t: | d d: | k kʷ k: | g gʷ g: | ||||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | β: | θ | ð: | s | z: | x xʷ | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ3 | d͡ʒ4 | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | [l̥]5 | l l: | [ɫ̥]6 | [ɫ]7 | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r̥ | r: | ||||||||||||||
- before voiceless consonants
- before voiceless consonants
- /kː/ after i-umlauted vowel
- /gː/ after i-umlauted vowel
- /l/ before unvoiced consonants, allophone of /l/
- /l/ after back vowels + before unvoiced consonants, allophone of /l/
- /l/ after back vowels, allophone of /l/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i i: ĩ: | y y: ỹ: | u u:1 ũ: | |
| Close-mid | ẽ̝:2 [e̝:]3 e̝4 | ø̝̃:5 ø̝:6 ø̝7 | [o:]8 | |
| Mid | e̞ e̞: ẽ̞: | o̞9 o̞:10 õ̞:11 | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ12 ɛ:13 ɛ̃:14 | |||
| Near-open | æ15 æ:16 æ̃:17 | |||
| Open | a a: ã: | [ɒ]18 [ɒ:]19 [ɒ̃:]20 | ||
| Polyphthongs | æi21 | æỹ̯22 æy̯23 | aũ̯24 au̯ | øĩ̯25 øi̯26 | oĩ̯27 oi̯28 | øy̯29 | iu̯30 | iy̯31 | ie̞̯ | e̞o̞̯32 |
| e̞u̯ | uo̯ | ae̞̯33 | e̞i̯ | yø̯34 | oe̞̯35 | ou̯ | ai̯ | ao̞̯36 | eo̞̯̝37 |
- also: u-umlaut of /uo̯/ (character: ù)
- i-/u-umlaut of /ẽ̞:/
- a-umlaut of /e̞i̯/, allophone of /e̞:/
- i-/u-umlaut of /e̞/
- i-umlaut of /õ̝ː/
- i-umlaut of /o:/
- i-umlaut of /o/
- regional allophone; a-umlaut of /ou̯/, allophone of /o̞:/
- u-umlaut of /a/; a-umlaut of /u/
- u-umlaut of /a:/; a-umlaut of /u:/; a-umlaut of /ou̯/ (character: ò)
- also: a-umlaut of /ũː/, u-umlaut of /ãː/
- a-umlaut of /i/
- a-umlaut of /i:/
- a-umlaut of /ĩ:/
- i-umlaut of /a/
- i-umlaut of /a:/
- i-umlaut of /ã:/
- optionally before nasals, allophone of /a/
- optionally before nasals, allophone of /a:/
- optionally before nasals, allophone of /ã:/
- i-umlaut of /ai̯/
- i-umlaut of /aũ̯/
- i-umlaut of /au̯/
- from nazalized PG *-un- before h
- i-umlaut of /oĩ̯/
- i-umlaut of /o̞i̯/
- from nazalized PG *-in- before h
- u-umlaut of /ai̯/
- i-umlaut of /o̞u̯/
- u-umlaut of /e̞u̯/
- i-umlaut of /e̞u̯/
- a-umlaut of /e̞u̯/
- a-umlaut of /ai̯/
- i-umlaut of /uo̞̯/
- a-umlaut of /ai̯/ after /w/
- a-umlaut of /au̯/
- a-umlaut of /e̞u/ + prepending /j/ or /w/.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Unkish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 UnkishOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/, [ɒ]1 | Ää/æ/2 | Áá/a:/, [ɒ:]3 | Ââ/ã:/, [ɒ̃:]4 | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e̞/ | Ëë/ɛ/5 | Éé/e̞:/ | Èè/e̞:/6, [e̝:]7 |
| Êê/ẽ̞:/ | Ff/ɸ/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/x/ | Ii/i/ | Ïï/e̝/8 | Íí/i:/ | Ìì/i:/9 | Îî/ĩ:/ | Jj/j/ |
| Kk/k/ | Ll/l/, [ɫ̥]10, [ɫ]11, [l̥]12 | Mm/m̥/13, /m/ | Nn/n/, /n̥/14 | Oo/o̞/15 | Öö/ø̝/16 | Óó/o̞:/17 | Òò/o̞:/18, [o:]19 | Ôô/õ̞:/20 | Pp/p/ |
| Rr/r̥/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Þþ/θ/ | Uu/u/ | Üü/y/ | Úú/u:/21 | Ùù/u:/22 | Ûû/ũ:/ | Vv/w/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||
- optionally before nasals
- i-umlaut of /a/
- optionally before nasals
- optionally before nasals
- a-umlaut of /i/
- a-umlaut of /e̞i̯/
- a-umlaut of /e̞i̯/
- i-/u-umlaut of /e̞/
- i-/u-umlaut of /ie̞̯/
- /l/ after back vowels + before unvoiced consonants
- /l/ after back vowels
- /l/ before unvoiced consonants
- before voiceless consonants
- before voiceless consonants
- u-umlaut of /a/; a-umlaut of /u/
- i-umlaut of /o/
- u-umlaut of /a:/; a-umlaut of /u:/; a-umlaut of /ou̯/ (character: ò)
- a-umlaut of /o̞u̯/
- regional allophone; a-umlaut of /ou̯/
- also: a-umlaut of /ũː/, u-umlaut of /ãː/
- also: u-umlaut of /uo̯/ (character: ù)
- u-umlaut of /uo̯/
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
Aspects: Perfective and Imperfective
Small article about the Unkish aspect system.
29-Aug-22 19:37
