Thedish [ZYD]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersThedish is spoken by a population of around 50,000 in Japan.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Thedish
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Thedish, specifically Pacific Low Thedish, is a Germanic-inspired a posteriori constructed language spoken in the western prefectures of Japan.
LORE
Thedish is a West Germanic language, closely related to other Germanic languages such as Dutch, German, and English, with its speakers originating around the modern-day Dutch province of Friesland. What would later become Old Thedish (OT: Alda Þiudisc, /ˈɑldɑ ˈt͡θiu̯disk/) branched off of Proto-West-Germanic around the 7th Century CE.
By the 11th Century CE, Thedish sea-faring merchants began trading with Japan via the port city of Nagasaki. Overtime, some Thedes would choose to settle in and around the city, creating a small Thedish-majority settlement dubbed New Thedeland City (Thedish: Nuizuidlandtosse; Japanese: ニューツードランド市, Nyūtsūdorando-shi). With the new city, Thedish started intaking many Japanese loanwords, mainly in terms of business and government, evolving into Middle Thedish (MT: Tjûdaiice Zŷdisc, /ˈtjuːdai̯ikɜ ˈt͡syːdiɕk/). A modified form of Japanese Katakana would be adopted to write the language, becoming standard alongside the original Latin script (i.e. チュウダイイケ ズゥィディㇲㇰ, Tjuudaiike Zuuidisk).
Shortly after the 14th Century CE, similar to English, Middle Thedish experienced its own vowel shift, changing the qualities of long vowels (i.e. /uː/ > /ɔu̯/, /ie̯/ > /iː/, /ou̯, ʊː/ > /uː/, etc.). Modern Thedish (MT: Cinduiice Zuidisc, /ˈkɪndɛi̯ɪkə ˈt͡sɛi̯dɪʃ/) came about by the end of the vowel shift in the 18th Century CE. Currently, New Thedeland City holds about 50,000 native speakers and 3000 L2 speakers of Thedish.
Thedish, specifically Pacific Low Thedish, is a Germanic-inspired a posteriori constructed language spoken in the western prefectures of Japan.
LORE
Thedish is a West Germanic language, closely related to other Germanic languages such as Dutch, German, and English, with its speakers originating around the modern-day Dutch province of Friesland. What would later become Old Thedish (OT: Alda Þiudisc, /ˈɑldɑ ˈt͡θiu̯disk/) branched off of Proto-West-Germanic around the 7th Century CE.
By the 11th Century CE, Thedish sea-faring merchants began trading with Japan via the port city of Nagasaki. Overtime, some Thedes would choose to settle in and around the city, creating a small Thedish-majority settlement dubbed New Thedeland City (Thedish: Nuizuidlandtosse; Japanese: ニューツードランド市, Nyūtsūdorando-shi). With the new city, Thedish started intaking many Japanese loanwords, mainly in terms of business and government, evolving into Middle Thedish (MT: Tjûdaiice Zŷdisc, /ˈtjuːdai̯ikɜ ˈt͡syːdiɕk/). A modified form of Japanese Katakana would be adopted to write the language, becoming standard alongside the original Latin script (i.e. チュウダイイケ ズゥィディㇲㇰ, Tjuudaiike Zuuidisk).
Shortly after the 14th Century CE, similar to English, Middle Thedish experienced its own vowel shift, changing the qualities of long vowels (i.e. /uː/ > /ɔu̯/, /ie̯/ > /iː/, /ou̯, ʊː/ > /uː/, etc.). Modern Thedish (MT: Cinduiice Zuidisc, /ˈkɪndɛi̯ɪkə ˈt͡sɛi̯dɪʃ/) came about by the end of the vowel shift in the 18th Century CE. Currently, New Thedeland City holds about 50,000 native speakers and 3000 L2 speakers of Thedish.
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Language family relationships
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | Other | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | β | f | v | s | ʃ | [x]2 | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | (t͡ʃ) | (d͡ʒ) | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | [ɫ]3 | ||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /l/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i: | ɨ | u: | |||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
| Close-mid | ø: | ɤ | ||||||||
| Mid | e̞: | [ə]1 | o̞: | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | ɔ ɔ: | ||||||||
| Open | ä | |||||||||
| Polyphthongs | ɔu | ʌi | ɛi |
- allophone of /ɛ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Thedish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ThedishOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa aa /ä/ | Ää umlaut aa /ɛ/ | Ææ æsc /ɛ:/ | Bb bee /b/ | Cc cee /k/ | Dd dee /d/ | Ee ee /ɛ/, [ə] | Èè graavice ee /ə/ | Ff ef /f/ | Gg gee /g/ |
| Hh haa /h/, [x] | Ii ie /ɪ/ | Jj jod /j/ | Ll el /l/, [ɫ] | Mm em /m/ | Nn en /n/, [ŋ] | Oo oo /ɔ/ | Öö umlaut oo /ɤ/ | Œœ öu /e̞:/ | Pp pee /p/ |
| Rr er /ɾ/ | Ss es /s/ | Tt tee /t/ | Uu uu /ʊ/ | Üü umlaut uu /ɨ/ | Vv vee /v/ | Ww wün /β/ | Zz zett /t͡s/ | ||
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||
