Svalbard Creole [SBC]
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[Deactivated User] on 26 December 2020
Language type
Creole
Species
Human/humanoid
About Svalbard Creole
Svalbard Creole is a language that arose from the contact of the Finnish language with Norwegian in the Svalbard archipelago.
Today the Svalbard Creole is spoken by the entire population of Svalbard as a native language, and with a significantly large community in regions of the Norwegian province of Troms og Finnmark.
Today the Svalbard Creole is spoken by the entire population of Svalbard as a native language, and with a significantly large community in regions of the Norwegian province of Troms og Finnmark.
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Language family relationships
Language treeFinnish-based Creoles
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Finnish
⤷ Finno-Scandinavian
⤷ Insular
⤷ Northern Insular
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Svalbard Creole
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Finnish⤷ Finno-Scandinavian
⤷ Insular
⤷ Northern Insular
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Svalbard CreolePhonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s1 | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | j | ||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ⱱ2 | |||||||||||||
- Norwegian loan words only
- Northern Sami and Norwegian loan words only
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | ø | o | |
| Open-mid | (ɔ) | |||
| Near-open | æ | |||
| Open | ɑ | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Svalbard Creole. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Svalbard CreoleOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Åå/ɔ/1 | Ää/æ/ | Aa/ɑ/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ |
| Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Öö/ø/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ |
| Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/ⱱ/2, /ʋ/ | Ww/v/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/t͡s/3, /z/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- loan words only
- Northern Sami and Norwegian loan words only
- Norwegian loan words only
