Berdenstreek [BRD]
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Registered by
[Deactivated User] on 30 September 2015
Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Berdenstreek
Berdenstreek is a language I am creating for my fantasy world. It is based off Dutch, with a bit of German and English thrown in for good measure.
Language family relationships
Language treeGermanic
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ West Germanic
⤷ Frankish
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Dutch
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Berdenstreek
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ West Germanic
⤷ Frankish
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Dutch⤷
Berdenstreek[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 | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | z | ʃ | x | ʁ | h | |||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | j | w | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | |||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | ø | o | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ||||||
| Near-open | ɐ | |||||||
| Open | a | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | yu | œy | ɑu | ɑi | oi | iu | ui | ɛɪ | ai | eu |
| ɔi |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Berdenstreek. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| BerdenstreekOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Aa a /ɐ/ | Bb be /b/ | Cc ce /k/ | Dd de /d/ | Ee e /ɛ/ | Ff fe /f/ | Gg ge /x/ | Hh he /h/ | Ii i /ɪ/ | IJ ij lang ij /ɛɪ/ | Jj je /j/ | Kk ke /k/ |
| Ll le /l/ | Mm me /m/ | Nn ne /n/ | Oo o /o/ | Pp pe /p/ | Rr re /ʁ/ | Ss se /s/ | Tt te /t/ | Vv ve /ʋ/ | Ww we /w/ | Zz ze /z/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
