Laendish [LAE]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Laendish
Laendish is one of the mainland Colian languages, the vestiges of the once-powerful Colian Empire.
Spoken in the mountains of eastern Edievia, Laendish has preserved some older features and innovated others. Mid-low vowels were raised in open syllables, creating a small class of verbs that have alternating stems. Syllable-final /l/ vocalized to /u̯/, generating another class of verbs that have stems alternating between /l/ and /u̯/ finally. This vocalization also raised mid-low vowels, creating a class of nouns that have identical singular and plural forms. Final /n/ was lost in all words, while the verbal system was overhauled, with tense indicated with auxiliary verbs in the past and future.
Verbs lack the aspectual distinction found in Edievian, but instead innovated tense distinctions with auxiliary verbs. Other Colian features, however, are preserved, such as VSO word order, inflected prepositions, and ablaut in nouns.
Spoken in the mountains of eastern Edievia, Laendish has preserved some older features and innovated others. Mid-low vowels were raised in open syllables, creating a small class of verbs that have alternating stems. Syllable-final /l/ vocalized to /u̯/, generating another class of verbs that have stems alternating between /l/ and /u̯/ finally. This vocalization also raised mid-low vowels, creating a class of nouns that have identical singular and plural forms. Final /n/ was lost in all words, while the verbal system was overhauled, with tense indicated with auxiliary verbs in the past and future.
Verbs lack the aspectual distinction found in Edievian, but instead innovated tense distinctions with auxiliary verbs. Other Colian features, however, are preserved, such as VSO word order, inflected prepositions, and ablaut in nouns.
Sample of Laendish[view] Slem ya òm mau ouc bana. / Slem ya um muu ouc bunu. / Slem ya im miu ouc bini. / Slem ya om mou ouc bono.
I like to eat apples and bananas. / I like to oot ooples and banoonoos. / I like to it ipples and bininis. / I like to oat ohpples and banonos.[view all texts]
I like to eat apples and bananas. / I like to oot ooples and banoonoos. / I like to it ipples and bininis. / I like to oat ohpples and banonos.[view all texts]
Sound samples in Laendish
Some sound samples of Laendish. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Tac bihb ne.
It is raining now.
It is raining now.
Neuhgo che lasto reng?
Who will arrive tomorrow?
Who will arrive tomorrow?
Mi n-e nyoseme dou ya, ouc mi le hbar mbana ahg!
The monkey bit me and stole my banana!
The monkey bit me and stole my banana!
A-nòm n-ebèt ohg ahbar.
My husband doesn't eat children.
My husband doesn't eat children.
A-bpoda lehbu.
Books do not sleep.
Books do not sleep.
Aba n-ahbar ou oucru.
Her children are wolves.
Her children are wolves.
Language family relationships
Language treeSoscarian-Colian
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Proto-Colian-Soscarian
⤷ Proto-Colian
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Colian
⤷ West Colian
⤷ Mainland
⤷ Upland
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Laendish
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Proto-Colian-Soscarian⤷
Proto-Colian⤷
Colian⤷ West Colian
⤷ Mainland
⤷ Upland
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Laendish[view] About Soscarian-ColianThe Soscarian-Colian family is named for its two constituent surviving language families, the Soscarian family and Colian family.
Under considerable construction as protolangs are being back-derived.
Under considerable construction as protolangs are being back-derived.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |||||||
| Nasal | m [m:]1 | n [n:]2 | ŋ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | [θ]3 | ð | s | ʃ | ʒ | [x]4 | ɣ | |||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
- nasal mutation of /m/, allophone of /m/
- nasal mutation of /n/, allophone of /n/
- /ð/ word-finally, allophone of /ð/
- /ɣ/ word-finally, allophone of /ɣ/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | [o]1 | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||
| Open | a | |||
- allophone of /o/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Laendish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| LaendishOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| A a Aa a /a/ | Bb Bb be /b/ | Cc Cc ce /k/ | Dd Dd de /d/ | Ee Ee e /e/ | Xx Èè è /ɛ/ | Ff Ff fe /f/ | Gg Gg ge /g/ | Ii Ii i /i/ | Ll Ll le /l/ | Mm Mm me /m/ |
| Nn Nn ne /n/ | Qq Òò ò /ɔ/ | Oo Oo o /o/ | Pp Pp pe /p/ | Rr Rr re /ɾ/ | Ss Ss se /s/ | Tt Tt te /t/ | Uu Uu u /u/ | Vv Vv ve /v/ | Jj Yy ye /j/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
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