Californian [CLFN]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
Language family relationships
Language treeGermanic
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ West Germanic
⤷ Anglo-Frisian
⤷ Anglic
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Old English
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Middle English
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English
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Californian
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ West Germanic
⤷ Anglo-Frisian
⤷ Anglic
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Old English⤷
Middle English⤷
English⤷
Californian[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 | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | h | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | w | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ʌ | ||||||||
| Open | ɑ | |||||||||
| Polyphthongs | ɔɪ | aʊ | oʊ | eɪ | aɪ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Californian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| CalifornianOrthography | |||||||||||
| Aa/ɑ/, /ə/, /ʌ/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/ɪ/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/oʊ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/, /ɹ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/ʊ/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order | |||||||||||
