Puck's Argot [PRG]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Puck's Argot
The Puck's Argot was a code language used by a band of criminals living in London during the late 19th century. It started out when their leader, now only known to us as Ar Puck, started replacing a few words in his language as a way of confusing men of the law when speaking to his associates. As more and more words were replaced, it turned into what most people would consider a different language. Someone who has any knowledge of linguistics will however quickly see that the "language" is but a code of English. The words have a number of source languages, but most are from Welsh, Irish, Latin and Greek.
Language family relationships
Language treeGermanic
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ West Germanic
⤷ Anglo-Frisian
⤷ Anglic
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Old English
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Middle English
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English
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Puck's Argot
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ West Germanic
⤷ Anglo-Frisian
⤷ Anglic
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Old English⤷
Middle English⤷
English⤷
Puck's Argot[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 | g | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | w | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i: | u: | ||||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
| Close-mid | e | |||||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɜ: | ʌ | ɔ | |||||||
| Near-open | æ | |||||||||
| Open | ɑ: | ɒ | ||||||||
| Polyphthongs | äʊ | əʊ | ɔɪ | äɪ | eɪ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Puck's Argot. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Puck's ArgotOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/æ/ | AI ai/eɪ/ | AL al/ɑ:/ | AW aw/ɔ/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | EE ee/i:/ | ER er/ɜ:/ |
| Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/ɪ/ | IGH igh/äɪ/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ |
| NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/ɒ/ | OA oa/əʊ/ | OI oi/ɔɪ/ | OO oo/ʊ/, /u:/ | OW ow/äʊ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɹ/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ |
| Tt/t/ | TH th/ð/, /θ/ | Uu/ʌ/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/ʒ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
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A short history
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