Old Vestmal [VTM]
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Registered by
[Deactivated User] on 22 March 2018
Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Vestmal
This is a thought experiment based on Old Norse inspired by Brithenig, a Romance conlang based on Welsh if the Roman were to stay on Britain and pushed the invading Anglo-Saxon invaders out. I wanted to test out between the language contact between Old English and Old West Norse and see how it tries out - forming a language similar to Norn or Faroese.
Language family relationships
Language treeGermanic
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ North Germanic
⤷ Old Norse
⤷ West Norse
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Old Vestmal
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ North Germanic
⤷ Old Norse
⤷ West Norse
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Old Vestmal[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 | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | [v]2 | θ | [ð] | s | [z]3 | [ɣ]4 | h | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | ks | ŋg | hv | gj | ts | kv |
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /f/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /g/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | y | u | |
| Close-mid | e | ø | o | |
| Open-mid | ɔ | |||
| Open | a | |||
| Polyphthongs | eu | au | ou | ei | ai |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Vestmal. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Old VestmalOrthography | |||||||||
| Aa a /a/ | Bb bé /b/ | Dd dé /d/ | Ee e /e/ | Ff fé /f/ | Gg gé /g/ | Hh há /h/ | Ii i /i/ | Jj jóð /j/ | Kk ká /k/ |
| Ll ell /l/ | Mm emm /m/ | Nn enn /n/ | Ǫǫ ǫ /ɔ/ | Oo o /o/ | Pp pé /p/ | Rr err /r/ | Ss sé /s/ | Tt té /t/ | Uu u /u/ |
| Vv[v] | Ww wé /w/ | Xx ex /ks/ | Yy y /y/ | Zz zé /ts/ | Ðð[ð] | Øø ø /ø/ | Þþ þórn /θ/ | Ᵹᵹ ᵹá /gj/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | |||||||||
