New Scots [NOC]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About New Scots
Currently undergoing complete rehaul!
Developed from a North Scots dialect with lots of Scandinavian influence.
Developed from a North Scots dialect with lots of Scandinavian influence.
Sample of New Scots[view] Nei vary witfil, ær þai? Æ leik þat ai ma mæn.
Not too smart, are you? I like that in a man.[view all texts]
Not too smart, are you? I like that in a man.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeGermanic
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ West Germanic
⤷ Anglo-Frisian
⤷ Anglic
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Old English
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Scots
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New Scots
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ West Germanic
⤷ Anglo-Frisian
⤷ Anglic
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Old English⤷
Scots⤷
New Scots[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...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | [ð]1 | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ç | [x]2 | ɣ | |||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]3 | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | ks | ŋk |
- allophone of /θ/
- allophone of /ɣ/
- allophone of /r/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | [œ]1 | ||||||||
| Near-open | [æ] | |||||||||
| Open | a | |||||||||
- allophone of /ʊ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for New Scots. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| New ScotsOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/, [æ] | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh// | Íí/i/ | Ii/ɪ/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ |
| Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/, [ɾ] | SSß/ʒ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ |
| Úú/ə/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ks/ | Yy/j/, /i/ | Zz/z/ | Ææ/ɛ/ | Ðð[ð] | Þþ/θ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
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