Nióruais [NIO]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Nióruais
Nióruais (natively Niórge) is a Goidelic Celtic language with significant influence from Old Norse. It descended from Old Irish over the course of centuries after the Gaelic Empire set up a large merchant republic based in Bergen after conquering all of Norway in 959 (and Denmark in 1018). A fateful visit from High King Scellán the Mad in 1141 granting Niórua independence from the Gaelic Empire sealed the language's fate as a noticeably distinct language from its parent tongue. The language attained its spread during the tenure of the Nióruais Empire, which at its greatest extent in 1873 covered most of the Americas (including all of South America, approximately 30% of Central America, and approximately 45% of North America), all of Australia and much of Oceania, a large chunk of Africa, and a large portion of Scandinavia including all of Denmark, Norway and Svealand, Livonia and Novgorodskaya Rus.
Nióruais differs from Irish in that many words seem fused with Old Norse syllables, and also the gradual (though not total) loss of palatal sounds has led to its slender/broad system to become wildly inconsistent in how certain sounds transform.
Due to the (legally-binding) unbreakable alliance between Niórua and Carpathia, many citizens of both inhabit either and as a result, many Nióruais loanwords can be found in
Carpathian (namely placenames) whilst a good few Carpathian loanwords can be found in Nióruais.
Nióruais differs from Irish in that many words seem fused with Old Norse syllables, and also the gradual (though not total) loss of palatal sounds has led to its slender/broad system to become wildly inconsistent in how certain sounds transform.
Due to the (legally-binding) unbreakable alliance between Niórua and Carpathia, many citizens of both inhabit either and as a result, many Nióruais loanwords can be found in
Carpathian (namely placenames) whilst a good few Carpathian loanwords can be found in Nióruais.
Sound samples in Nióruais
Some sound samples of Nióruais. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Óise stán stuir...
It was a big rock...
It was a big rock...
ios le máibh niá diom cháid níom diom ég carn muinn dérfár e siogúr e en oibnegh
its a good day to do what has to be done by me and help my brother to defeat the enemys
its a good day to do what has to be done by me and help my brother to defeat the enemys
Ios barg rósta. Fédarlóm ciúnn abín. Ios élg, nuégh neis. Duil cúnc soin.
This is toast. It refills your mana. That’s it, nothing more. Fuck you.
This is toast. It refills your mana. That’s it, nothing more. Fuck you.
Nuégh táib cóm mib den iond áns.
I have no memory of this place.
I have no memory of this place.
Lhú niá boir mib bólat no, giob matratóibh niá past mé, ég giob cúr lúm áit chímr rúcaigh gú stáclad...
Enough to buy me a new homestead, pay up a dowry to be wed, and raise however many spawn my seed wak...
Enough to buy me a new homestead, pay up a dowry to be wed, and raise however many spawn my seed wak...
Muach ao cót, muach e greip en gróm! Ó, buadiom síd en breoda?
Early to bed, early to catch the worm! Or, is it the bagel?
Early to bed, early to catch the worm! Or, is it the bagel?
Language family relationships
[view] About CelticThe Celtic languages (usually pronounced /ˈkɛltɪk/ but sometimes /ˈsɛltɪk/) are descended from Proto-Celtic, or "Common Celtic"; a branch of the greater Indo-European language family. The term "Celtic" was first used to describe this language group b...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m mʷ | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | f | v | ð | s | z | ʃ | (ʒ) | ɣ | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | k͡x | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʟ | ||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | w | |||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
| Blends | wɪ | ju | (ks) | jə | wə | sʟ |
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | ø | o | |||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ʌ | ɔ | |||||
| Near-open | æ | |||||||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||||||
| Polyphthongs | au | [æu]1 | aɪ | ae |
- allophone of /au/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Nióruais. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 NióruaisOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa as /a/ | Áá ás /ɑ/ | AI ai ais /æ/ | Bb bá /b/ | BH bh biá /v/ | Cc cá /k/ | CH ch chá /k͡x/ | Dd dá /d/ | DH dh diá /ð/ | Ee es /ə/ |
| Éé és /e/ | EI ei eis /ɛ/ | Ff fá /f/ | FH fh fhá /ɸ/ | Gg gá /g/ | GH gh ghá /ɣ/ | Ii ìs /ɪ/ | Íí ís /i/ | Ll lá /l/ | LH lh lhá /ʟ/ |
| Mm/m/ | MH mh mhá /mʷ/ | Nn ná /n/ | NH nh niád /ɲ/ | NN nn ánn /ŋ/ | Óó ós /o/ | Oo os /ø/ | OI oi ois /ɔ/ | Pp pá /p/ | Rr rá /ɹ/ |
| RH rh rhá /r/ | Ss sá /s/ | SH sh siá /ʃ/ | Tt tá /t/ | TH th thá /h/ | Úú ús /u/ | Uu us /ʌ/ | |||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
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