American [USAM]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersAmerican is spoken in United States of America.
Species
Human/humanoid
About American
This conlang is supposed to be a prediction of what American English would look like in the future, based on predictions from the YouTube channel Watch Your Language. One of the most noticeable changes here is the reduction of diphthongs to simple vowels, the loss of /h/ in the initial position, except before /i/, where it changed to /ç/. Lenition of aspirated stops in the beginning of words, and the loss of the TH sound also occurred. Also, the orthography used here is mostly phonemic.
Here are some of the rules with examples:
pʰ tʰ kʰ → ɸ ts x /#_
t d → tʃ dʒ /_/r/
h → ∅ /#_/_V
h → ç /_[i, j]
θ ð → t d
w → ɣʷ /#_/_V
oʊ ju → ø
ɛə → ɛ
aɪ → a
ɔɪ → œ
aʊ → æ a
eɪ → e
/pʰipɫ̩/ → /ɸipl/ people → phipl
/dɹɑ/ → /dʒɑ/ draw → jo
/haʊs/ → /as/ house → as
/hjuːd͡ʒ/ → /çudʒ/ huge → huj
/maʊθ/ → /mat/ mouth → mat
/wɛəɹ/ → /ɣʷɛɹ/ where → gwear
/oʊ.pən/ → /øpn̩/ open → oepn
/daɪs/ → /das/ dice → dais
/maʊs/ → /mæs/ mouse → mas
/eɪliən/ → /eliən/ alien → eilien
/nɔɪz/ → /nœz/ noise → nois
Here are some of the rules with examples:
pʰ tʰ kʰ → ɸ ts x /#_
t d → tʃ dʒ /_/r/
h → ∅ /#_/_V
h → ç /_[i, j]
θ ð → t d
w → ɣʷ /#_/_V
oʊ ju → ø
ɛə → ɛ
aɪ → a
ɔɪ → œ
aʊ → æ a
eɪ → e
/pʰipɫ̩/ → /ɸipl/ people → phipl
/dɹɑ/ → /dʒɑ/ draw → jo
/haʊs/ → /as/ house → as
/hjuːd͡ʒ/ → /çudʒ/ huge → huj
/maʊθ/ → /mat/ mouth → mat
/wɛəɹ/ → /ɣʷɛɹ/ where → gwear
/oʊ.pən/ → /øpn̩/ open → oepn
/daɪs/ → /das/ dice → dais
/maʊs/ → /mæs/ mouse → mas
/eɪliən/ → /eliən/ alien → eilien
/nɔɪz/ → /nœz/ noise → nois
Sample of American[view] Ai raitit e buk boet masealf, e meizing otbaogrefee, bai d' gwe! / Me frean raitit e buk boet imsealf tsu, an 't gwaz meizing tsu!
I wrote a book about myself, an amazing autobiography, by the way! / My friend wrote a book about himself too, and it was amazing too![view all texts]
I wrote a book about myself, an amazing autobiography, by the way! / My friend wrote a book about himself too, and it was amazing too![view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeGermanic
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ West Germanic
⤷ Anglo-Frisian
⤷ Anglic
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Old English
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Middle English
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English
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American
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ West Germanic
⤷ Anglo-Frisian
⤷ Anglic
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Old English⤷
Middle English⤷
English⤷
American[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 | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | ɣʷ | |||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Lateral flap | ɺ | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
| Blends | ks |
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
| Close-mid | e | ø | ||||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ɜ | ʌ | ||||||
| Near-open | æ | |||||||||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||||||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for American. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| AmericanOrthography | |||||||||||
| Aa/æ/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ə/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/x/ | Ii/ɪ/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ |
| Nn/n/ | Oo/ɑ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɺ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/ʊ/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ks/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order | |||||||||||
