Old Frankish [OFN]
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[Deactivated User] on 5 July 2018
Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Frankish
Old Frankish is an attempt to reconstruct the Frankish language in a form that is usable for the purpose of use in historical fiction and alternative history projects. I created it to mirror the historical Frankish language as closely as possible for my own stories. The language is derived from Proto-Germanic, and has loanwords from Latin, Old High German, Old Norse, as well as other sources.
Sample of Old Frankish[view] Þīs sati gangeþ þīn hertan brekan; hīt was ēn þīs wege gemaked. Of þu lōgjēs fūr gelūkkehēdi ēn þīs welda findan, þu lōgjēs ēn wrangam sati
This place will break your heart; it was designed that way. If your looking for happiness in this world you're looking in the wrong place.[view all texts]
This place will break your heart; it was designed that way. If your looking for happiness in this world you're looking in the wrong place.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeGermanic
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ West Germanic
⤷ Frankish
⤷ Old Frankish
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ West Germanic
⤷ Frankish
⤷ Old Frankish
[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 | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | x | ɣ | h | |||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||
Trill | r |
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i | u | ||||
Close-mid | e | o | ||||
Mid | ə | |||||
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
Near-open | æ |