Frellish [FRSH]
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Language type
Mixed
Species
Human/humanoid
About Frellish
Spoken by the frelliks, a race of small, friendly, fuzzy creatures who reside in unused spaces. Inspired by Wicked's Oz-isms (definish, confusifying), the names of various Borrowers (Eggletina), old-fashioned English words (splendiferous), and some of the words used in Fraggle Rock (preachification) and the Dark Crystal (insert Kira/Podling gibberish here). The goal is to make a language that sounds familiar to English speakers as far as words go, but has just enough of a difference to make it stand on its own. Kind of a child's speech kind of thing, where a kid knows the rules of a language just enough to communicate but not perfectly.
I now know a little bit more about frelliks, and am working on some basic conculture stuff.
Orthography is going to be the biggest problem for now, because I want it to look nice. In the meantime, I'll be listing the "original" form of the word as its main dictionary entry, with anglicized frelliktokken in the alternate word part. From what I have so far, the anglicized version looks a lot prettier and is more intuitive. But I don't really want to deal with difficult PhoMo, so I'm being lazy.
I now know a little bit more about frelliks, and am working on some basic conculture stuff.
Orthography is going to be the biggest problem for now, because I want it to look nice. In the meantime, I'll be listing the "original" form of the word as its main dictionary entry, with anglicized frelliktokken in the alternate word part. From what I have so far, the anglicized version looks a lot prettier and is more intuitive. But I don't really want to deal with difficult PhoMo, so I'm being lazy.
Sample of Frellish[view] De woda vee zo kelt! / Nou et vee zo helt. / Nou et vee zo kelt. / Nou et vee zo dup.
The water's too cold! / Now it's too hot. / Now it's too cold. / Now it's too deep.[view all texts]
The water's too cold! / Now it's too hot. / Now it's too cold. / Now it's too deep.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | h | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | w | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | o | |||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||||||
| Open | a | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | ɑʊ | oʊ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Frellish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 FrellishOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | EE ee/i/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/ɪ/ |
| Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/ɑʊ/, /o/ | OO oo/u/ | OU ou/oʊ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɹ/ |
| Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/ð/ | Uu/ə/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/ʒ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
What is a Frellik?
A short overview of native frelliktokklers
28-Jan-22 01:50
