Derhetch [DEC]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Derhetch
another germanic-like language. more art than aux, hence tagged as artlang.
canonically created by a group of artists in a germanic-people-only afterlife, reconstructed from some words they remembered and some words they thought sounded right.
name describes that it is a language of people called the Degets.
uses western germanic V2 as word order.
canonically created by a group of artists in a germanic-people-only afterlife, reconstructed from some words they remembered and some words they thought sounded right.
name describes that it is a language of people called the Degets.
uses western germanic V2 as word order.
Sample of Derhetch[view] Feel zuls egal wat galden. Beeter dhem dan wie.
Many will die no matter what we do. Better them than us.[view all texts]
Many will die no matter what we do. Better them than us.[view all texts]
Sound samples in Derhetch
Some sound samples of Derhetch. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Feel zuls egal wat galden. Beeter dhem dan wie.
Many will die no matter what we do. Better them than us.Warning: Link provided is not a supported filetype (wav, ogg, mp3). You can navigate to the link provided at your own risk.
Many will die no matter what we do. Better them than us.Warning: Link provided is not a supported filetype (wav, ogg, mp3). You can navigate to the link provided at your own risk.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | pʰ | b | tʰ | d | kʰ | g | [ʔ]1 | |||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | [v]2 | θ | ð | s̪͆ | z̪͆ | [ʃ̪͆]3 | [ʒ̪͆]4 | ç | (ʝ)5 | (x) | [χ]6 | [h]7 | ɦ | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s̪͆ | d͡z̪͆ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | (ɬ) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | [ʋ]8 | ɹ | [ɻ]9 | j | [ʍ]10 | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | (r)11 | ʀ̥ | ||||||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /tʰ/
- does not appear in final position, allophone of /f/
- allophone of /s̪͆/
- allophone of /z̪͆/
- allophone of /j/ in native words
- allophone of /ʀ̥/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /w/
- allophone of /ɹ/
- allophone of /w/
- long by most speakers
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | (y)1 | u | |||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʏ | [ʊ]2 | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | (o) | ||||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ɔ | |||||||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||||||||
| Polyphthongs | ɛi | ɑi | ou | œy | ɑu | uɑ | eu | iɑ | ie | əi |
- allophone of /ʏ/ in native words
- allophone of /u/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Derhetch. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 DerhetchOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Aa a /ɑ/ | Bb bie /b/ | Dd ed /d/ | Ee e /ɛ/ | Ff ef /f/ | Gg ge /ʀ̥/ | GH gh/ʝ/1 | Hh eh /ɦ/ | Ii i /ɪ/ | Jj jij /j/ | Kk ek /kʰ/ | Ll el /l/ |
| Mm em /m/ | Nn en /n/ | Oo o /ɔ/ | Pp ep /pʰ/ | Rr er /ɹ/ | Ss es /s̪͆/ | Tt et /tʰ/ | Uu u /ʏ/ | Ww dubl-u /w/ | Xx/x/2 | Zz ez /z̪͆/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
- allophone of /j/ in native words, loan words only
- loan words only
