Proto-Lakelandic [TAI]
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Language type
Proto-Conlang
Species
Human/humanoid
About Proto-Lakelandic
The mother of all Lakelandic languages.
Out of universe: This is the first of the various proto-languages of the language families I like to call "landic-languages". It was not my first conlang overall, but I wasn't very experienced with conlanging when I started to conjure it up, so to speak. My initial plan was to use, in a rather vague manner, elements of Uralic (mainly Saami, Samoyedic and Baltic Finnic languages), Ancient Greek and some words postulated to originate in Paleo-European languages (hence the name "Lakelandic" which is inspired by [read: lifted from] the Saami linguist Ante Aikio) to create a language (with a priori vocabulary) used to portray fictional history for a northern part of an Earth-like planet.
Early vocabulary of Proto-Lakelandic reflects this goal to a degree, but eventually things got more complex, ideas got abandoned and new ones were adopted (most notably, perhaps, Chukotko-Kamchatkan elements). Now I have probably too many language families for a single person to manage, with elements inspired by languages as diverse as Navajo and Kartvelian languages, but still remembering the original idea of predominantly a priori vocabulary. And now I realize this has little to do with Proto-Lakelandic in particular, but oh well.
Out of universe: This is the first of the various proto-languages of the language families I like to call "landic-languages". It was not my first conlang overall, but I wasn't very experienced with conlanging when I started to conjure it up, so to speak. My initial plan was to use, in a rather vague manner, elements of Uralic (mainly Saami, Samoyedic and Baltic Finnic languages), Ancient Greek and some words postulated to originate in Paleo-European languages (hence the name "Lakelandic" which is inspired by [read: lifted from] the Saami linguist Ante Aikio) to create a language (with a priori vocabulary) used to portray fictional history for a northern part of an Earth-like planet.
Early vocabulary of Proto-Lakelandic reflects this goal to a degree, but eventually things got more complex, ideas got abandoned and new ones were adopted (most notably, perhaps, Chukotko-Kamchatkan elements). Now I have probably too many language families for a single person to manage, with elements inspired by languages as diverse as Navajo and Kartvelian languages, but still remembering the original idea of predominantly a priori vocabulary. And now I realize this has little to do with Proto-Lakelandic in particular, but oh well.
Language family relationships
Language treeLakelandic
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m m: ˀm | n n: ˀn | ɲ | ŋ ŋ: ˀŋ | ||||||||||||||
Plosive | p p: ˀp | t̪ t̪: ˀt̪ | k k: ˀk | ʔ | ||||||||||||||
Fricative | ð ð: | s s: | ʃ ʃ: | x | ʁ | |||||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s t͡s: | t͡ʃ t͡ʃ: | ||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l l: | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j j: | w w: |
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i1 | y | ɯ | u |
Close-mid | e | o | ||
Near-open | æ | |||
Open | ɑ |
- Neutral vowel
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Proto-Lakelandic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Proto-LakelandicOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
Aa/ɑ/ | Ää äh /æ/ | BP bp/ˀp/ | Čč ča /t͡ʃ/ | Cc ca /t͡s/ | DT dt/ˀt̪/ | Ee eh /e/ | GK gk/ˀk/ | Hh ha /x/ | Ïï/ɯ/ |
Ii ih /i/1 | Jj ja /j/ | Kk ka /k/ | Ll la /l/ | Mm ma /m/ | Nn na /n/ | NJ nj/ɲ/ | Oo oh /o/ | Pp pa /p/ | Qq/ʔ/ |
Rr/ʁ/ | Ss sa /s/ | Šš ša /ʃ/ | Tt ta /t̪/ | Uu uh /u/ | Ww wa /w/ | Yy/y/ | Ŋŋ ŋa /ŋ/ | Δδ δa /ð/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- Neutral vowel
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