Thorrish [THI]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Thorrish
An isolated West Germanic tongue spoken in an unknown land by an unknown people. Little is known about it by the wider world. Few can speak it, and even fewer know it to fluency.
It is believed that they explored the world long before many other cultures. Through some intense beliefs of linguistic and culture purism amongst the early Thorrish peoples, very few loanwords had been accepted into the language over the years, and their pride in their identity leads to persistent linguistic purism to this day.
It is believed that they explored the world long before many other cultures. Through some intense beliefs of linguistic and culture purism amongst the early Thorrish peoples, very few loanwords had been accepted into the language over the years, and their pride in their identity leads to persistent linguistic purism to this day.
Sample of Thorrish[view] Hit'þ wirxom. I wille stoppen. Hwanne i sow fele, i wirche an forþstepp
It's painful. I want to stop. When I feel that way, I take a step forward[view all texts]
It's painful. I want to stop. When I feel that way, I take a step forward[view all texts]
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 | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k2 | g3 | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s4 | z | ʃ | ɣ5 | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ6 | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | ʍ | w | |||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
| Blends | ks |
- Before /k/ and /g/, allophone of /n/
- Word finally, as well as to distinguish a closed syllable
- Only appears word-initially
- Used to distinguish an open syllable from a closed syllable when /s/ would normally by /z/
- Only word-finally and intertonically
- Intertonic only
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i1 | u | ||||||||
| Near-close | ɪ2 | ʏ3 | ʊ4 | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | [o]5 | ||||||||
| Mid | [ə] | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ6 | ʌ7 | ɔ8 | |||||||
| Open | a | |||||||||
- From historic ie
- Unstressed and in closed syllables
- Historical long /u:/ and /eo/
- From historical long /o:/ in closed syllables
- Open syllable, allophone of /ɔ/
- Unstressed and in closed syllables
- Unstressed and in closed syllables
- Closed syllables
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Thorrish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ThorrishOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/ | Ch ch/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ðð/ð/ | _ dch/d͡ʒ/1 | Ee/ɛ/2, /e/, [ə] | Ea ea/i/3 | Ee ee/i/4 |
| Ff/f/ | Gg/g/5 | Gh gh/ɣ/6 | Hh/h/ | Hl hl/l/ | Hr hr/r/ | Hw hw/ʍ/ | Ii/ɪ/7, /i/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/8 | Kk/k/9 |
| Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ŋ]10 | Oo/ɔ/11, [o]12 | Oo oo/ʊ/13, /ʏ/14 | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Sſ/s/15 | Sh sh/ʃ/ |
| Tt/t/ | Þþ/θ/ | Uu/u/, /ʌ/16 | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Wr wr/r/ | Xx/ks/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | _ ck/k/17 |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||
- Intertonic only
- Unstressed and in closed syllables
- From historical ea
- From historic ie
- Only appears word-initially
- Only word-finally and intertonically
- Unstressed and in closed syllables
- Word initial only
- Before e & i
- Before /k/ and /g/
- Closed syllables
- Open syllable
- From historical long /o:/ in closed syllables
- Historical long /u:/ and /eo/
- Used to distinguish an open syllable from a closed syllable when /s/ would normally by /z/
- Unstressed and in closed syllables
- Word finally, as well as to distinguish a closed syllable
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