Middle-Sea Sunþar [IUM]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Middle-Sea Sunþar
Middle-Sea Sunþar is the lexically and grammatically closest modern descendant of Old Sunþar. This is because Middle Sea Sunþar is spoken by a small population of Crete, Greece, and so very little change has occurred relative to other descendants of Old Sunþar. Chances are, if you can read and speak Middle-Sea Sunþar, you probably can read Old Sunþar.
What It Has:
-3 verb classes including irregulars
-Nominative, Accusative, Dative, and Genitive cases for nouns and pronouns
-Primarily VSO word order, but that can be flexible due to the case system. Future tense is SVO
What It Has:
-3 verb classes including irregulars
-Nominative, Accusative, Dative, and Genitive cases for nouns and pronouns
-Primarily VSO word order, but that can be flexible due to the case system. Future tense is SVO
Sample of Middle-Sea Sunþar[view] Ewes-þu hombil swas bæst þu of Jerþan; / Ewes-þu aiþal swas bæst þu of Strason.
Be humble for you are made of earth; be noble for you are made of stars.[view all texts]
Be humble for you are made of earth; be noble for you are made of stars.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeGermanic
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ South Germanic
⤷ Old Sunþar
⤷ East Sunþar
⤷ Middle-Sea Sunþar
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ South Germanic
⤷ Old Sunþar
⤷ East Sunþar
⤷ Middle-Sea Sunþar
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
Fricative | ɸ | θ | ð | s | z | ɣ | h | |||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
Trill | r |
Blends | ŋk |
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i | u | ||
Close-mid | e | o | ||
Open-mid | ɛ | |||
Open | a |
Polyphthongs | ao |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Middle-Sea Sunþar. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Middle-Sea SunþarOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ff/ɸ/ | Gg/g/ | GH gh/ɣ/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ |
Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/, /z/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Ææ/e/ | Ðð/ð/ | Þþ/θ/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
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