Northsean [NRS]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Northsean
Northsean is a Germanic language spoken in the Norþsæ archipelago, about halfway between the UK and Scandinavia.
Sample of Northsean[view] Áném sávolberendát arnþ fréleġ ond efenleġ bryðém in gemédneseg ond riġtá. Ðéġ arnþ endovém við géradeng ond ingeþóġte, ond til ánne scoldenþ féran in an gildscipi férġþeng.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
[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 | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k (kʷ) | g | ||||||||||||
Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | (z) | ʃ | x | h | |||||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | (w) | ||||||||||||||||
Trill | r |
Blends | (k͡s) |
Vowels | Front | Central | Near- back | Back | ||||
Close | i | y | ɨ | u | ||||
Near-close | ʊ | |||||||
Close-mid | e | o | ||||||
Mid | ə | |||||||
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||
Near-open | æ | |||||||
Open | a | ɑ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Northsean. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
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Aa a /a/ | Bb be /b/ | Cc ce /t͡ʃ/ | Dd de /d/ | Ee e /ɛ/ | Ff ef /f/ | Ġġ ġa /x/ | Gg ge /g/ | Hh hec /h/ | Ii i /i/ |
Jj ja /j/ | Kk ka /k/ | Ll el /l/ | Mm em /m/ | Nn en /n/ | Oo o /o/ | Pp pe /p/ | Qq quiu /kʷ/1 | Rr er /r/ | Ss es /s/ |
Tt te /t/ | Uu u /ʊ/ | Vv ve /v/ | Ww dubwe /w/2 | Xx ex /k͡s/3 | Yy y /y/ | Zz zeð /z/4 | Ææ æsc /æ/ | Ðð eð /ð/ | Þþ þorn /θ/ |
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