Folgya [FOR]
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[Deactivated User] on 28 January 2017
Language type
Creole
Species
Human/humanoid
About Folgya
I love Faroese, and I love the simplicity of Irish grammar and the Welsh use of particles, so this language is a creole-ish mix of all of those
Language family relationships
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||||
Nasal | [m̥]1 | m | n nʲ [n̥]2 | ŋ | ||||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b [b̥]3 | t ʰt | d [d̥]4 | k | g [g̥]5 | ||||||||||||||
Fricative | ɸ | f | v | θ | s | ʃ | ʒ | [ʂ]6 | [ʐ]7 | ç | x | ɣ | h | |||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
Approximant | ʋ | ɹ | j | w |
Blends | dl | dn | tn̥ | tl̥ |
- Before an unvoiced consonant, allophone of /m/
- Before an unvoiced consonant, allophone of /n/
- Finally, or before an unvoiced consonant, allophone of /b/
- Finally, or before an unvoiced consonant, allophone of /d/
- Finally, or before an unvoiced consonant, allophone of /g/
- In a consonant cluster, before a voiceless consonant, allophone of /ɹ/
- In a consonant cluster, before a voiced consonant, allophone of /ɹ/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i | u | ||||||||
Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
Close-mid | e | ø | o | |||||||
Mid | [ə] | |||||||||
Open-mid | ɛ | ʌ | ||||||||
Near-open | [æ]1 | |||||||||
Open | a | ɒ |
Polyphthongs | əi | uə | ɛi | au | əu | ai |
- allophone of /a/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Folgya. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
FolgyaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
Aa a /a/, [æ], [ə] | Ââ â lângi /ɒ/ | Bb bæ /b/, [b̥]1 | Cc cæ /k/ | CH ch braidh cæ /x/, /ç/ | Dd dæ /d/, [d̥]2 | DH dh braidh dæ /j/, /ʋ/, /ɣ/ | Ee e /ɛ/ | Ff ef /f/ |
Gg eg /g/, [g̥]3 | GH gh braidh eg /ɣ/, /j/, /w/ | Hh hacy /h/ | Ii i /ɪ/ | Îî î lângi /i/ | Ll el /l/ | Mm em /m/, [m̥]4 | Nn en /n/, [n̥]5 | NG ng eng /ŋ/ |
Ôô ô lângi /o/ | Oo o /ʌ/ | Pp pæ /p/ | PH ph braidh pæ /f/ | Rr er /ɹ/, [ʐ]6, [ʂ]7 | RH rh braidh er /ʒ/ | Ss es /s/ | SH sh braidh es /ʃ/ | Tt tæ /t/ |
TH th braidh tæ /θ/ | Ûû û lângi /u/ | Uu u /ʊ/ | Vv væ /v/ | Ww twivæ /w/ | Yy yôgh /j/ | Ææ æsh /e/ | Øø ø /ø/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- Finally, or before an unvoiced consonant
- Finally, or before an unvoiced consonant
- Finally, or before an unvoiced consonant
- Before an unvoiced consonant
- Before an unvoiced consonant
- In a consonant cluster, before a voiced consonant
- In a consonant cluster, before a voiceless consonant