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Laendish Orthography
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Laendish carries similar orthography conventions as its closest relative, Edievian. Laendish also makes use of the same script as does Edievian, called the auftet colès "Colian alphabet" in Laendish (as opposed to Edievian's more self-centered approach; calling it the alfotet taaevaes "Edievian alphabet")Laendish's seven phonemic vowels are written with nine different characters.
/a/ - <a>
/ɛ/ - <è>
/e/ - <e, ê, é>
/i/ - <i>
/ɔ/ - <ò>
/o/ - <o, ô>
/u/ - <u>
Like the other Colian languages, Laendish makes use of vocalic ablaut to make the singular/plural distinction in nouns. Like Edievian, the vowel of the final syllable changes in quality to denote the plural. The pairs are as follows (shown orthographically):
a - a
è - e
ê - e
e - i
ò - o
ô - o
o - u
As seen above, /u i/ do not occur in the final syllables of any Laendish words. This ablaut is the reason for the two orthographic representations of /e o/. Laendish raised /ɛ ɔ/ to /e o/ in open syllables in the 1600s, so words with original /ɛ ɔ/ use <ê ô> to represent /e o/ so that their plurals can be accurately predicted as also being /e o/. For example, vê "ear" /ve/ has a plural as ve /ve/. Syllables ending in /u̯/ were also raised, but do not have orthographic convention to show which have plurals with ablaut and which do not: gou "sea(s)", but peyeu, peyiu "beet, beets".
<é> appears as a variant of <e> in certain prepositional inflections, and represents the contraction of two /e/, usually in prepositions with roots that end in /e/ and then gain another from the definite article, such as vane "over" and vané "over the".
Consonants are rather straight forward, however the occurrence of initial mutations leads to some orthographic variance of how phonemes are represented. The consonants, and all their orthographic variants are:
/p/ - <p>
/t/ - <t>
/k/ - <c>
/b/ - <b, bp>
/d/ - <d, dt>
/g/ - <g, gc>
/f/ - <f>
/s/ - <s>
/ʃ/ - <ch>
/ʒ/ - <hy>
/v/ - <v, hb, hbf>
/ð/, [θ] - <hd> (realized as [θ] word-finally)
/ɣ/, [x] - <hg> (realized as [x] word-finally)
/m/ - <m, mb, mv, hm>
/n/ - <n, nd>
/ŋ/ - <ng>
/l/ - <l>
/ɾ/ - <r>
/j/ - <y, ych>
The written variants <bp dt gc nd mb mv hm hbf ych> only occur as mutations. ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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