Middle Sunþar [MSUN]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Middle Sunþar
Middle Sunþar is direct descendant of Old Sunþar, and was spoken until 900 A.D. as the language evolved into its descendants. However, though it is extremely close grammatically to Old Sunþar, there exists a modern language that is in fact closer grammatically and lexically to Old Sunþar, and that language is Middle-Sea Sunþar. Linguists separate these languages by marking them as East Sunþar, or West Sunþar. There are significantly more languages within the West Sunþar branch.
Sample of Middle Sunþar[view] Ewes-þu obíl, swaswa byst þu uv Jørþa; / Ewes-þu yþlí, swaswa byst þu uv Stirsan.
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
⤷ West Sunþar
⤷ Middle Sunþar
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ South Germanic
⤷ Old Sunþar
⤷ West Sunþar
⤷ Middle Sunþar
[view] About GermanicThe Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of approximately 500 million people mainly in North America, Oceania, Western and Northern Europe. Proto-Germanic , which was spoken in approxima...
[edit] [view] Gaulsk (Gaulic Sunþar)One of the two major dialects of Middle Sunþar. Was spoken in modern day southwestern France. It eventually evolved into modern Gaulsh (Gallish), which is spoken mainly around the border of France and Spain. It is recognized as a minority language. For some strange reason, which linguists pursue the answer of, dental fricatives were kept, though French doesn't have those phonemes.
[edit] [view] Spensk (Hispanic Sunþar)One of the two major dialects of Middle Sunþar. Hispanic Sunþar was spoken in modern day Portugal and Spain. It eventually gave rise to Surspansk (Latin Sunþar), which is now spoken and recognized throughout Brazil as an official language brought to the Americas during the Spanish Conquest.
This dialect is interesting, as it has lost dental fricatives, glottal consonants, labio-velar consonants, and the /œ~ø/ vowels merged with /a~æ/.
This dialect is interesting, as it has lost dental fricatives, glottal consonants, labio-velar consonants, and the /œ~ø/ vowels merged with /a~æ/.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
Fricative | ɸ | β | θ | ð | s | [z]1 | x | ɣ | h | |||||
Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
Trill | r |
- allophone of /s/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
Close | i | u | ||||
Near-close | ɪ | |||||
Close-mid | e | [ø]1 | o | |||
Open-mid | [ɛ]2 | œ | ||||
Open | a |
Polyphthongs | ai | ei |
- allophone of /œ/
- allophone of /e/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Middle Sunþar. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Middle SunþarOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/, [ɛ] | Ff/ɸ/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/ɪ/ | Íí/ai/ |
Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/, [z] |
Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/β/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/i/ | Ðð/ð/ | Øø/œ/, [ø] | Þþ/θ/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
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