Wesenglish [WSE]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Wesenglish
Originally, this was supposed to be an attempt to create a descendent of Old English with minimal influence from Old Norse or French, and with a healthy amount of world building. It is now still a descendent of Old English, and still lacks much Norse and French influence, but now has a weird orthography and an even weirder amount of Celtic influence Latin influence.
Sample of Wesenglish[view] Gisch'em taisen fhei gat sha morn.
I will see you in the morning.[view all texts]
I will see you in the morning.[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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Wesenglish
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ West Germanic
⤷ Anglo-Frisian
⤷ Anglic
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | Other | |||||||||
Nasal | m [m̩] | n [n̩]1 | ||||||||||||||||
Plosive | p [pʰ]2 | b | t [tʰ]3 | d | k [kʰ]4 | g | ||||||||||||
Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | h | |||||||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | [ɫ]5 [ɫ̩]6 | ||||||||||||||||
Approximant | [ɹ]7 [ɹ̩]8 | j | w | |||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
Blends | tf | sk | ks | tw | ft | sp | fs | kf | sw | pf |
st | ps | ts |
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /p/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /l/
- allophone of /l/
- allophone of /ɾ/
- allophone of /ɾ/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i | u | ||||||||
Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
Close-mid | e | o | ||||||||
Mid | ə | |||||||||
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||||
Open | ä |
Polyphthongs | ie | äi | iu | ui | ɑu | ou | eu | oi | ei |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Wesenglish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
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Aa gau /ə/ | Bb bei /b/ | Cc chei /k/ | Dd dei /d/ | Ee gei /ɛ/ | Ff gefh /v/ | Gg cgei /j/ | Hh heech /h/ | Ii gai /ɪ/ |
Ll gel /l/, [ɫ̩], [ɫ] | Mm gem /m/, [m̩] | Nn gen /n/, [n̩] | Oo goo /ɔ/ | Pp pei /p/ | Rr gaar /ɾ/, [ɹ], [ɹ̩] | Ss gesh /z/ | Tt tei /t/ | Uu guu /ʊ/ |
✔ Shown in correct order [change] |
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