Town Speech(aka. Urban Basanawa) [UBS]
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[view flag info] Town Speech(aka. Urban Basanawa)
町語 [bʊrgsprɑ:k]
[view flag info] Town Speech(aka. Urban Basanawa)
町語 [bʊrgsprɑ:k]
Registered by
藤咲瑠奈 on 26 November 2014
Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Town Speech(aka. Urban Basanawa)
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Features:
- Town Speech is a Low German language closely related to certain Dutch and Low Saxon dialects.
- The basic word order is SVO, with preverbal negations and prepositions, Germanic V2 order has been lost
- An initial question particle, rather than the subject–verb inversion, is used to form yes-no questions.
- Generally right-branching but is basically left-branching in nominal phrases
- The grammar is largely analytic: no adjective declensions, nominal cases, although nouns have plural forms and verbs conjugate according to tense and person.
- The plural form of most nouns are formed by adding -/(ə)s/(written -す) to the endings of them, but there's still a considerable amount of nouns whose plural formes are formed by adding -/(ə)n/(written -ん) to the endings of them.
- an invariant relativizer rather than interrogative pronouns is used to form relative clauses.
- Town Speech has a profound East Asian influence and is written in a Japanese-derived writing system and it tends to use more Kandji(漢字) compared to modern Standard Japanese.
- Town Speech has many loanwords from Japanese, Chinese, etc., and uses Sino-Xenic vocabulary from Japanese as academic vocabulary to express complex ideas and also interjections; while the grammatical structure, functional words and words for everyday life are still largely Germanic.
Features:
- Town Speech is a Low German language closely related to certain Dutch and Low Saxon dialects.
- The basic word order is SVO, with preverbal negations and prepositions, Germanic V2 order has been lost
- An initial question particle, rather than the subject–verb inversion, is used to form yes-no questions.
- Generally right-branching but is basically left-branching in nominal phrases
- The grammar is largely analytic: no adjective declensions, nominal cases, although nouns have plural forms and verbs conjugate according to tense and person.
- The plural form of most nouns are formed by adding -/(ə)s/(written -す) to the endings of them, but there's still a considerable amount of nouns whose plural formes are formed by adding -/(ə)n/(written -ん) to the endings of them.
- an invariant relativizer rather than interrogative pronouns is used to form relative clauses.
- Town Speech has a profound East Asian influence and is written in a Japanese-derived writing system and it tends to use more Kandji(漢字) compared to modern Standard Japanese.
- Town Speech has many loanwords from Japanese, Chinese, etc., and uses Sino-Xenic vocabulary from Japanese as academic vocabulary to express complex ideas and also interjections; while the grammatical structure, functional words and words for everyday life are still largely Germanic.
Sample of Town Speech(aka. Urban Basanawa)[view] ごめんなさい、然くひ知んど過う多かるﾟ
I'm sorry but he knew too much.[view all texts]
I'm sorry but he knew too much.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeGermanic
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ West Germanic
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Old Saxon
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Middle Low German
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Plattdytch
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Town Speech(aka. Urban Basanawa)
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ West Germanic
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Old Saxon⤷
Middle Low German⤷
Plattdytch⤷
Town Speech(aka. Urban Basanawa)[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 | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | [v]2 | s | z3 | ʃ | [ç]4 | x | [h]5 | ||||||||
| Affricate | (t͡s) | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | w | |||||||||||||
| Trill | [r]6 | |||||||||||||||
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /f/
- allophone of /s/ in native germanic words, but an independent phoneme in words from other languages
- allophone of /x/
- allophone of /x/
- allophone of /ɹ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||||||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]1 | [ʊ]2 | ||||||||
| Mid | e̞ e̞: | ə | o̞ o̞: | |||||||
| Open-mid | [ɛ]3 | [ɔ]4 | ||||||||
| Open | ä ä: | [ɑ:]5 | ||||||||
| Polyphthongs | ai | au | oi | iu |
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /e̞/
- allophone of /o̞/
- allophone of /ä:/
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