New Saxonian [NWX]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersNew Saxonian is spoken by a population of around 6,700,000 in New Saxony.
Species
Human/humanoid
About New Saxonian
New Saxonian is a West Germanic language that evolved separate from English. Despite being an Anglo-Frisian language, it bares some resemblance to German (such as with the capitalization of nouns), since it is a subsidiary of Dutch and Frisian.
Sample of New Saxonian[view] Das Col is Wagenbirnstoff, das we birnatt Grejtaxelas getacken.
Coals is a fossil fuel. Which means setting fire to dinosaurs.[view all texts]
Coals is a fossil fuel. Which means setting fire to dinosaurs.[view all texts]
Sound samples in New Saxonian
Some sound samples of New Saxonian. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Swa swa Engineir, he wat das an full Buck of mindlich Grundsettung ne was an Cornes of goden hevijen...
As an engineer, he knew that a bucket-load of philosophical principles wasn’t worth a grain of good ...
As an engineer, he knew that a bucket-load of philosophical principles wasn’t worth a grain of good ...
Mict gelibben in los Ding was grejt Tol.
An ability to believe in things that weren’t true was a powerful tool.
An ability to believe in things that weren’t true was a powerful tool.
An Träppe and je bist gesticked wit da Tesel.
One trick and you're stuck with the dice.
One trick and you're stuck with the dice.
Language family relationships
Language treeGermanic
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ West Germanic
⤷ Anglo-Frisian
⤷ Anglic
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Old English
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New Saxonian
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ West Germanic
⤷ Anglo-Frisian
⤷ Anglic
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Old English⤷
New Saxonian[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 | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ1 | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | [z]2 | ʃ | [x]3 | [ɣ]4 | ʁ | h | |||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | [ʋ]5 | j | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | [r]6 | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | ks |
- Replaces /n/ when before a velar consonant.
- Happens after rounded vowels, allophone of /s/
- Happens after voiceless consonants, allophone of /ʁ/
- allophone of /ʁ/
- allophone of /v/
- Uncommon, allophone of /ʁ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | y | u | |||||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]1 | [ʏ]2 | [ʊ]3 | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | ø | o | |||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||||
| Open-mid | [ɛ]4 | [ɔ]5 | ||||||||
| Near-open | [æ]6 | [ɐ]7 | ||||||||
| Open | a | [ɑ]8 | ||||||||
| Polyphthongs | ɛi |
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /y/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /o/
- allophone of /ɛ/
- allophone of /ə/
- allophone of /a/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for New Saxonian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| New SaxonianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa a /a/, [ɑ] | Ää ä /ɛ/, [æ] | Bb be /b/ | Cc che /k/ | Dd de /d/ | Ee e /e/, [ɛ] | Ff ef /f/ | Gg ge /g/ | Hh ach /h/ |
| Ii i /i/, [ɪ] | Jj jog /j/ | Kk ke /k/ | Ll el /l/ | Mm em /m/ | Nn en /n/ | Oo o /o/, [ɔ] | Öö ö /ø/ | Pp pe /p/ |
| Rr er /ʁ/, [x]1, [r]2, [ɣ] | Ss es /s/, [z]3 | Tt te /t/ | Uu u /u/, [ʊ] | Üü ü /y/, [ʏ] | Vv ve /v/, [ʋ] | Ww twegen ve /v/, [ʋ] | Xx ex /ks/ | Zz ze /t͡s/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||
- Happens after voiceless consonants
- Uncommon
- Happens after rounded vowels.
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