Old Vóddan [UON]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Vóddan
The North Germanic child of 
Kaimen Kēling. Features a radically simplified verb system, with the loss of the distinction between dual and plural forms. Extensive umlaut has caused the development of front rounded vowels, and the length distinction in vowels has been augmented by a quality distinction, with most short vowels being lax and most long vowels being tense.
Kaimen Kēling. Features a radically simplified verb system, with the loss of the distinction between dual and plural forms. Extensive umlaut has caused the development of front rounded vowels, and the length distinction in vowels has been augmented by a quality distinction, with most short vowels being lax and most long vowels being tense.
Language family relationships
Language treeUralic
⤷ Proto-Uralic
⤷ Finno-Ugric
⤷ Finno-Khantic
⤷ Finno-Permic
⤷ Kaimen Kēling
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Old Vóddan
⤷ Proto-Uralic
⤷ Finno-Ugric
⤷ Finno-Khantic
⤷ Finno-Permic
⤷
Kaimen Kēling⤷
Old Vóddan[view] About UralicThe Uralic languages /jʊˈrælɨk/ (sometimes called Uralian /jʊˈreɪliən/ languages) constitute a language family of some three dozen languages spoken by approximately 25 million people. The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian, ...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | [ð]2 | s | h | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /θ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i: | y: | u: | |||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʏ | ʊ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e: | ø: | o: | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ||||||||
| Near-open | æ | ɐ | ||||||||
| Open | a: | ɑ: | ɒ | |||||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Vóddan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Old VóddanOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/ɐ/ | Áá/ɑ:/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Éé/e:/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Íí/i:/ | Ii/ɪ/ |
| Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Óó/o:/ | Oo/ɒ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ |
| Úú/u:/ | Uu/ʊ/ | Vv/v/ | Ýý/y:/ | Yy/ʏ/ | Ææ/æ/ | Ǽǽ/a:/ | Ðð[ð] | Ǿǿ/ø:/ | Øø/œ/ | Þþ/θ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
