Pictish [PICT]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Pictish
Pictish is an a posteriori conlang based on the Celtic languages as an attempt to mimic their beautiful phonology and orthography with a simplified conjugation system. There is no lenition in Pictish.
Sample of Pictish[view] Cogairdheasàhean. Bha ghòn an thùd tà gòrach ha mi cha phacean . Rà.
Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.[view all texts]
Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.[view all texts]
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 | n | ɲ | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b bʲ | t | d | k kʲ | g gʲ | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f fʲ | v vʲ | ð | s | z | ʃ1 | ʒ | x xʲ | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | ʍ | w | |||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
| Blends | ʃaʊ | ləv | ʃi | ʃʌ | ʃɪ | mi | rəv | ʃo | ʃæ | nəm |
| ʃɔ | ləb | ləm | rʃt | rəl | ʃe | ʃɛ | rəm |
- only when preceding an e/è or i/ì.
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i i: | ɯ | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ ɪ: | ʏ ʏ: | ||||||
| Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||||||
| Mid | ə1 | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | ʌ ʌ: | ɔ ɔ: | |||||
| Near-open | æ æ: | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | aʊɪ | əi əi: | aɪ | əiʃ | iʃ2 | ɔɪ | ʌʃ3 | ɔʃ4 | aʊ | ɛʃ5 |
| eʃ6 | æʃ7 | oɪ | ʏj | ɪʃ8 | ʏʃ |
- Usually at the end of a word.
- At the end of a word.
- At the end of a word.
- At the end of a word.
- At the end of a word.
- At the end of a word.
- At the end of a word.
- At the end of a word.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Pictish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 PictishOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/æ/ | Àà/aʊ/ | Bb/b/ | BH bh/v/ | Cc/k/ | CH ch/x/ | Dd/d/ | DH dh/d͡ʒ/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Èè/e/ |
| Gg/g/ | GH gh/j/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Ìì/i:/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NH nh/ɲ/ | Oo/o/ |
| Òò/ɔ/ | Pp/p/ | PH ph/f/ | Qq/kʲ/ | QH qh/t͡ʃ/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/ð/ | Uu/ʏ/ |
| Ùù/ʌ/ | Ww/w/ | WH wh/ʍ/ | Yy/ɪ/ | Ỳỳ/əi/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/ʒ/ | |||
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||
