Leprechaunian [LPC]
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Registered by
Shareenear on 11 January 2018
Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersLeprechaunian is spoken by a population of around 500,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Leprechaunian
Welcome to the Leprechaunian language, where's words that sound normal are written as if a cat had walked on a keyboard, and words that are written normal sound like a Welsh person trying to speak Polish! Why? Because it's a celtic-based language and it's orthography is kinda similar to Irish but not exactly like it.
Spoken by leprechauns(obviously) in my conworld, mainly on the Leprechaun Island in Cyclopia. This language isn't mutually intelligeble with any other but the closest languages to Leprechaunian are Elemental, Arachnese, Shadowese and Insectian.
It's a VSO language, which means that tge verb is the first in a sentece. Leprechaunian has easy analytical grammar, but not really easy phonology. By the way, there's also no the "yes" and "no" words in Leprechaunean just like it's being said about Scottish and Irish(but for some reason there are those words in dictionaries)
A shitty cover in this lang:
Spoken by leprechauns(obviously) in my conworld, mainly on the Leprechaun Island in Cyclopia. This language isn't mutually intelligeble with any other but the closest languages to Leprechaunian are Elemental, Arachnese, Shadowese and Insectian.
It's a VSO language, which means that tge verb is the first in a sentece. Leprechaunian has easy analytical grammar, but not really easy phonology. By the way, there's also no the "yes" and "no" words in Leprechaunean just like it's being said about Scottish and Irish(but for some reason there are those words in dictionaries)
A shitty cover in this lang:
Sample of Leprechaunian[view] Beathaidh fisc ann uisce chybh.
The fish will live in an aquarium.[view all texts]
The fish will live in an aquarium.[view all texts]
Sound samples in Leprechaunian
Some sound samples of Leprechaunian. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Beathaidh fisc ann uisce chybh.
The fish will live in an aquarium.
The fish will live in an aquarium.
Styrghiá dearg golaidh de segin ttú earseaw. Styrghiá glaes diull.
A red light means you have to stop. Green means go.
A red light means you have to stop. Green means go.
Siwadd, gwybí ni siadd conaes earseaw.
Unfortunately, they didn’t know how to stop.
Unfortunately, they didn’t know how to stop.
Earseaw! Llawan oll ddo ceann!
Stop! Put your hands behind your head!
Stop! Put your hands behind your head!
Ttaicí ni mi ni aon mádra tiu.
I haven't seen a single dog today.
I haven't seen a single dog today.
Ycheá ttú sinn bwydydd!
You're eating my food!
You're eating my food!
Language family relationships
[view] Ceghbhandoir (Cevandir)Spoken on the continent. Has a grave(` ) instead of accute (´ ).
Source languages are switched: Irish with Scottish and Cornish with Breton.
Source languages are switched: Irish with Scottish and Cornish with Breton.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m mʲ | n | ȵ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʲ | b bʲ | t | d | c | ɟ | k | g | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f fʲ | v vʲ | θ | ð | s | ʃ | ç | x | χ | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ȴ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r rʲ r̥ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | ɨ | u u: | |||
| Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||||
| Open | a a: | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Leprechaunian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 LeprechaunianOrthography | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Áá/a:/ | Éé/e:/ | Íí/i:/ | Óó/o:/ | Úú/u:/ | Bb/b/, /bʲ/ | BH bh/v/, /vʲ/ | Cc/k/, /c/ | CH ch/x/, /ç/ | Dd/d͡ʒ/, /d/ |
| DD dd/ð/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/, /fʲ/ | Gg/g/, /ɟ/ | Ii/i/, /j/ | Ll/l/, /ȴ/ | LL ll/ɬ/ | Mm/m/, /mʲ/ | Nn/n/, /ȵ/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/o/ |
| Pp/p/, /pʲ/ | Rr/r/, /rʲ/ | RH rh/r̥/ | Ss/ʃ/, /s/ | Tt/t/, /t͡ʃ/ | TT tt/θ/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | WH wh/χ/ | Yy/ɨ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | ||||||||||
