Samelian [SME]
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[Deactivated User] on 8 January 2018
Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Samelian
Samelian is an Indo-European language based off of a multitude of Germanic, Slavic and Baltic languages, used in the Samelian branch of neo-Paganism rituals and pagan activities. The language was first thought up by James B. Häva in 1958 and was passed down from pagan priest to pagan priest until it came into Internet-being by J.J.B. (Avon). The language was created to bear features from a multitude of historically Northern European pagan nations, from Ireland to Finland, grammatical aspects were adopted from each.
Features of Samelian
Sämeliči Sayedd
-SVO Word Order
-21 Grammatical Cases
-Tense marked by use of temporal adjectives and adverbs
-No Gender, plural nouns are marked by case
-21 Grammatical Cases
-Tense marked by use of temporal adjectives and adverbs
-No Gender, plural nouns are marked by case
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | (c)1 | ɟ | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | (x)2 | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | wʰ3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ̈]4 | |||||||||||||||||
- Used in latin translations, mostly from Romance and Slavic Languages
- Derrived from Semitic loan words, mostly mathematical terms
- Adopted from High Church Samelian
- Modern Allophone of r, loss of distinctions between the two phonemes
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Near-open | æ | |||||
| Open | a | ɒ | ||||
| Polyphthongs | eɪ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Samelian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 SamelianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| -// | Aa/a/ | Ää/æ/ | AE ae/eɪ/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/c/1 | Čč/t͡ʃ/ | Ćć/d͡ʒ/ | Dd/d/ | DD dd/ð/ | Ëë/i:/ |
| Ee/e/ | EU eu/ə/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/ɟ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ |
| NN nn/ŋ/ | Oo/o/ | Öö/ɒ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/, [ɾ̈]2 | Šš/ʃ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | Üü/u:/ | Uu/u/ |
| Vv/v/ | Yy/j/ | Žž/ʒ/ | Zz/z/ | ¨V ¨v/wʰ/3 | ¸H ¸h/x/4 | ¸N ¸n/ɲ/ | Đđ/d͡z/ | |||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- Used in latin translations, mostly from Romance and Slavic Languages, loan words only
- Modern Allophone of r, loss of distinctions between the two phonemes
- Adopted from High Church Samelian
- Derrived from Semitic loan words, mostly mathematical terms, loan words only
