Helvetican [HVC]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersHelvetican is spoken by a population of around 15,703,000 in Helvetica.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Helvetican
Helvetica is a Romlang spoken in Helvetica (or Switzerland in the real world)
Stress is usually Ultimate to Penultimate and rarely Initial
(V = Vowel, C = Consonant)
Verb endings:
First:
-ar/er
-ir
-re
-jar
Second:
-dre
-bre
-Vbre
-Vdre
(when the derivational suffix is after a vowel in a word of only two syllables, it'll be moved to the first conjugation.)
Third:
-ure
Verb to noun usually removes the verb ending, making -(ad/t)or endings, or -or for -re.
The Genitive order is usually noun-of-genitive, but if the genitive is a person, it can be genitive-noun, or noun-(of)-genitive
"I'll make you know" or any other forms of pronouns and verbs replacing "make" would be "2SSecond person singular (person)
addressee (you),SUBSubject (argument) do-1SFirst person singular (person)
speaker, signer, etc.; I,FUTFuture (tense)
action occurring after the moment of speech know-INFInfinitive (TAM)
non-tensed verb"
Stress is usually Ultimate to Penultimate and rarely Initial
(V = Vowel, C = Consonant)
Verb endings:
First:
-ar/er
-ir
-re
-jar
Second:
-dre
-bre
-Vbre
-Vdre
(when the derivational suffix is after a vowel in a word of only two syllables, it'll be moved to the first conjugation.)
Third:
-ure
Verb to noun usually removes the verb ending, making -(ad/t)or endings, or -or for -re.
The Genitive order is usually noun-of-genitive, but if the genitive is a person, it can be genitive-noun, or noun-(of)-genitive
"I'll make you know" or any other forms of pronouns and verbs replacing "make" would be "2SSecond person singular (person)
addressee (you),SUBSubject (argument) do-1SFirst person singular (person)
speaker, signer, etc.; I,FUTFuture (tense)
action occurring after the moment of speech know-INFInfinitive (TAM)
non-tensed verb"
Language family relationships
Language treeItalic
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
⤷
Latin
⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Gallic
⤷ Occitano-Romance
⤷ Helveto-Romance
⤷
Helvetican
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
⤷
Latin⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Gallic
⤷ Occitano-Romance
⤷ Helveto-Romance
⤷
Helvetican [edit] [view] Dialett Helvétiqua d'Ostria (Austrian Dialect)Summary of Changes:
/ua ~ uə/ > /a/
/r/ > /ʁ/
/l/ > /ɹ/ if previous syllable contains /ɹ/
/z/ > /s/
/ɔ/ > /ɒ/
/ʎ/ > /l ~ j/
/ʏ/ > /y/
/lv ~ ɫv/ > /w/
/ua ~ uə/ > /a/
/r/ > /ʁ/
/l/ > /ɹ/ if previous syllable contains /ɹ/
/z/ > /s/
/ɔ/ > /ɒ/
/ʎ/ > /l ~ j/
/ʏ/ > /y/
/lv ~ ɫv/ > /w/
[edit] [view] Dialet Elvétique de Savoyard (Savoyard Dialect)A dialect significantly influenced by French
Summary of changes:
/kʷ/ > /k/
/r ~ ɹ/ > /ʁ/
/ɹ/ > /χ/ before voiceless consonants
/t͡s ~ t͡ʃ/ > /ʃ/
/d͡ʒ/ > /ʒ/
/c/ > /ʃ/
/ə/ > /∅/ finally
/aɫ/ > /a˞/
/əɫ/ > /ɚ/
/ɫ/ > /∅/ otherwise
/ɪ/ > /i/
/ʊ/ > /u/
/ʎ/ > /j/
/kʷa ~ kʷə/ > /kɛ/
/kʷa ~ kʷə/ > /∅/ finally
Droppings of coda plosive and fricatives.
Droppings of final /ə/, /a/ or /ɛ/
Summary of changes:
/kʷ/ > /k/
/r ~ ɹ/ > /ʁ/
/ɹ/ > /χ/ before voiceless consonants
/t͡s ~ t͡ʃ/ > /ʃ/
/d͡ʒ/ > /ʒ/
/c/ > /ʃ/
/ə/ > /∅/ finally
/aɫ/ > /a˞/
/əɫ/ > /ɚ/
/ɫ/ > /∅/ otherwise
/ɪ/ > /i/
/ʊ/ > /u/
/ʎ/ > /j/
/kʷa ~ kʷə/ > /kɛ/
/kʷa ~ kʷə/ > /∅/ finally
Droppings of coda plosive and fricatives.
Droppings of final /ə/, /a/ or /ɛ/
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Other | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | (ŋ)1 | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k kʷ | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ2 | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ɫ3 | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ̠ | j | w | (ɥ) | ||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | (k͡s) |
- Before ⟨k⟩, ⟨q⟩, ⟨c⟩ or ⟨g⟩
- Before /i/, /ɪ/, /y/, /ʏ/, /e/, or /ɛ/
- Non-apical, before consonants, coda
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | y1 | u | |||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | (ʏ) | ʊ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | ø2 | o | |||||||
| Mid | ə3 | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ̃ | ɔ ɔ̃ | ||||||||
| Open | a | ɑ̃ | ||||||||
| Polyphthongs | ei |
- Influenced by palatal vowels and consonants
- Influenced by palatal vowels and consonants
- Rarely appears unstressed, Finally only on 3/more syllable words
Syllable Structure[C] [C] V [C] [C]
Stress informationˈσ.σ
ˌσ.σ.ˈσ
σ.ˈσ.σ.ˌσ
σ.σ.ˈσ.σ.ˌσ
ˌσ.σ.ˈσ
σ.ˈσ.σ.ˌσ
σ.σ.ˈσ.σ.ˌσ
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Helvetican. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| HelveticanOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/, /ə/1 | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡ʃ/2, /k/ | Çç/t͡ʃ/, /ʃ/, /s/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/, /ə/3 | Éé/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/d͡ʒ/4, /g/ |
| Hh// | Ii/i/, /ɪ/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Ĵĵ/ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/, /ɫ/5 | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, /ŋ/6 | Oo/ɔ/, /ø/7 |
| Óó/o/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/k/8 | Rr/r/, /ɹ̠/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/y/9, /ʊ/, /ɥ/10, //11, /u/ | Úú/y/12, /ɥ/13, /ʏ/14 | Vv/v/ |
| Ww/w/ | Xx/k͡s/15 | Yy/j/ | Ýý/ʎ/ | Zz/t͡s/, /z/ | Ââ/ɑ̃/ | Ôô/ɔ̃/ | Êê/ɛ̃/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||
- Rarely appears unstressed, Finally only on 3/more syllable words
- Before /i/, /ɪ/, /y/, /ʏ/, /e/, or /ɛ/
- Rarely appears unstressed, Finally only on 3/more syllable words, loan words only
- Before /i/, /ɪ/, /y/, /ʏ/, /e/, or /ɛ/
- Non-apical, before consonants, coda
- Before ⟨k⟩, ⟨q⟩, ⟨c⟩ or ⟨g⟩, loan words only
- Influenced by palatal vowels and consonants
- Before ⟨u⟩ or ⟨ú⟩
- Influenced by palatal vowels and consonants
- Influenced by /j ~ ʎ/
- Only after ⟨g⟩ and before a vowel
- loan words only
- loan words only
- loan words only
- loan words only
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