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Winelandic
Wintyng
[wintɪŋ]
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 3 November 2020
Language type A posteriori
Species Human/humanoid
About Winelandic What if the English won the Battle of Hastings in 1066? What if they then started American colonies in the same century, but those colonies were cut off due to political reasons? What if the Vikings settled into the colonies as well? This language looks at this hypothetical timeline. I've painstakingly evolved this Old English as realistically as possible, with seven main iterations: Colonial Old English, Late Colonial Old English, Early Mid Colonial English, Mid Colonial English, Late Mid Colonial English, Early Modern Winelandic, and Modern Winelandic.

As Old English evolved in our timeline, it eventually became Modern English, with major simplifications. Winelandic is also simpler than Old English, but more complex than our English. It has also gone through sound changes, but different than those of our English. It sounds more Germanic, with a hint of a Scandinavian influence.

Sound Shifts
Verb Grammar
Pronoun Grammar
Noun Grammar
Unfinished Grammar Book

Sample of Winelandic[view] Jis ofercjæld add ynmælbreli slypij is; swa flæn swa glæs glisnyþ, lic gemm.

Ice is very cold and immeasurably slippery; it glistens as clear as glass, much like a gem.
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Latest vocabulary
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Sound samples in Winelandic
Some sound samples of Winelandic. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Ne rihthabys te warcfwina þin, jonli warcet þin.
You are not entitled to the fruit of your labour—only the labour itself.
Grafity add tid ne reicjað mej swa fæll so cwecli.
Gravity and time have no effect on me as I fall so fast.
Wintyng cweð.
I speak English
Language family relationships
Language treeGermanic
 ⤷ Proto-Germanic
  ⤷ West Germanic
   ⤷ Anglo-Frisian
    ⤷ Anglic
     ⤷ Old English
      ⤷  Winelandic
[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
ConsonantsBilabialLabio-
dental
DentalAlveolarPost-
Alveolar
PalatalLabio-
velar
VelarGlottal
Nasal m     n       ŋ  
Plosive p b     t d       k kʷ g  
Fricative   f [v]1 θ ð s ʃ [ç]2   [x]3 h
Affricate         t͡ʃ d͡ʒ        
Lateral approximant       l          
Approximant           [j]4 w    
Trill       r          
Flap       [ɾ]5          
Blends sl ɱf kn
  1. Intervocalic /f/, allophone of /f/
  2. After front vowels, allophone of /h/
  3. After back vowels, allophone of /h/
  4. Word initial before front vowels, allophone of /g/
  5. allophone of /r/
VowelsFrontNear-
front
CentralBack
Close i     u
Near-close   ɪ    
Close-mid [e]1     [o]2
Mid     [ə]3  
Open-mid [ɛ]4     ʌ ɔ
Near-open æ      
Open a      
Polyphthongs ɔu
  1. Initial, allophone of /ɛ/
  2. allophone of /ɔ/
  3. Final, allophone of /a/
  4. Non-initial, allophone of /æ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Winelandic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 WinelandicOrthography [edit]
Aa
Ah
/a/, [ə]1
Bb
Bej
/b/
Cc
Cjej
/k/
CJ cj
/t͡ʃ/
CW cw
/kʷ/
Dd
Dej
/d/
Ee
Eh
/ɛ/, [e]2, [ə]3
EI ei
/i/
EU eu
/ɔu/
Ff
Eff
/f/, [v]4
Gg
Gjej
/g/, [j]5
GJ gj
/d͡ʒ/
GN gn
/n/
Hh
Hecj
/h/, [x]6, [ç]7
HL hl
/sl/
HN hn
/kn/
HW hw
/w/, [h]8
Ii
Ih
/i/, [ɪ]9
IU iu
/iə/
Jj
Jou
/j/
Ll
Ell
/l/
Mm
Emm
/m/
MF mf
/ɱf/
Nn
Enn
/n/
NG ng
/ŋ/
Oo
Oh
/ɔ/, [o]
OU ou
/ʌ/
Pp
Pej
/p/
Rr
Err
/r/, [ɾ]
Ss
Ess
/s/
SC sc
/ʃ/
Tt
Tej
/t/
Uu
Uh
/u/
Ww
Wyn
/w/
Yy
Wej
/ɪ/
Ææ
Æsc
/æ/, [ɛ]10
Ðð
/ð/
Þþ
Þorn
/θ/
✔ Shown in correct order [change]
  1. Final
  2. Initial
  3. Final
  4. Intervocalic /f/
  5. Word initial before front vowels.
  6. After back vowels.
  7. After front vowels.
  8. /w/ before /ɔ/ or /u/
  9. Non-medial
  10. Non-initial
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