Colonial Gaelic [CLNGC]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Colonial Gaelic
This language is a look at what could have occurred, had America been colonized by primarily Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic speaking folk. Hence the name Colonial Gaelic.
It's most noticeable features include:
- Lack of nominal cases (Except for SGSingular (number)
one countable entity/PLPlural (number)
more than one/few and GENGenitive (case)
possessive)
- Strict VSO
- Consonant mutation shifted to ONLY verb conjugation
- ACTActive voice (valency, volition)
the subject acts, voluntarily and PASSPassive voice (valency)
be verb-ed voices
- Evolution of θ and ð into the Gaelic phonology
It's most noticeable features include:
- Lack of nominal cases (Except for SGSingular (number)
one countable entity/PLPlural (number)
more than one/few and GENGenitive (case)
possessive)
- Strict VSO
- Consonant mutation shifted to ONLY verb conjugation
- ACTActive voice (valency, volition)
the subject acts, voluntarily and PASSPassive voice (valency)
be verb-ed voices
- Evolution of θ and ð into the Gaelic phonology
Sample of Colonial Gaelic[view] Dhèa cogarèan cthain bìt brèthanas?
Do you always whisper when you're being judgemental?[view all texts]
Do you always whisper when you're being judgemental?[view all texts]
Sound samples in Colonial Gaelic
Some sound samples of Colonial Gaelic. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Bìm èn bròdor dhuisg. Èn òlpèast ir to tromlèghen. Èn namhèd da mìlla aghèden...
I am the lucid dream. The monster in your nightmares. The fiend of a thousand faces...Warning: Link provided is not a supported filetype (wav, ogg, mp3). You can navigate to the link provided at your own risk.
I am the lucid dream. The monster in your nightmares. The fiend of a thousand faces...Warning: Link provided is not a supported filetype (wav, ogg, mp3). You can navigate to the link provided at your own risk.
Language family relationships
Language treeCeltic
⤷ Proto-Celtic
⤷ Insular Celtic
⤷ Goidelic
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Colonial Gaelic
⤷ Proto-Celtic
⤷ Insular Celtic
⤷ Goidelic
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Colonial Gaelic[view] About CelticThe Celtic languages (usually pronounced /ˈkɛltɪk/ but sometimes /ˈsɛltɪk/) are descended from Proto-Celtic, or "Common Celtic"; a branch of the greater Indo-European language family. The term "Celtic" was first used to describe this language group b...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | β | θ | ð | s | [z]1 | ʃ | ʒ | [ç]2 | ɣ | ||
| Affricate | k͡x | [g͡ɣ]3 | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||
| Approximant | [ɹ]4 | j | ||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||
| Blends | dj | mj | sj | pj | ɸj | kj |
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /ɣ/
- allophone of /k͡x/
- allophone of /r/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ɔ | |||||
| Open | a | |||||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Colonial Gaelic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Colonial GaelicOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Àà/ə/ | Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Èè/e/ | Ff/ɸ/ | Gg/g/ | Ii/i/ | Ìì/ɪ/ | Jj/ʒ/ |
| Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Òò/ɔ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/, [ɹ] | Ss/s/, [z] | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Yy/j/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
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