Reyekian [REY]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Reyekian
Reyekian (ᚱᛖᛃᛃᛖᚲᛗᚨᚨᛚ, reijekmɑ:l) is a North Germanic language descended directly from Old Norse. It is spoken by around 10,000 people in the Reyek Isles, a part of the Moonshae Island chain. Reyekian has a number of notable sound changes from Old Norse, such as a dropping of final vowels, fricativisation of final voiceless stops, removal of /g/ in exchange for /χ/ and other such changes.
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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 | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ ŋʷ | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k kʷ | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | [v]1 | θ | ð | s | z | χ | h | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r rʷ | |||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /w/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||
| Close-mid | e e: | o | ||
| Open-mid | ɔ: | |||
| Open | ɑ ɑ: | |||
| Polyphthongs | oi | ui | ei | ɑi |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Reyekian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ReyekianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| ᚠ/f/ | ᚢ/u/ | ᚦ/θ/ | ᚨ/ɑ/ | ᚱ/r/ | ᚲ/k/ | ᚷ/χ/ | ᚹ/w/, [v] | ᚻ/h/ | ᚾ/n/ | ᛁ/i/ | ᛃ/j/ |
| ᛈ/p/ | ᛉ/z/ | ᛊ/s/ | ᛏ/t/ | ᛒ/b/ | ᛖ/e/ | ᛗ/m/ | ᛚ/l/ | ᛝ/ŋ/ | ᛞ/d/ | ᛟ/o/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
