Albionian: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 17:46, 5 March 2024

British branch of Maghrebi Arabic with loosely Danish sound changes

Fortis and lenis resonants; uvularization kept as 2ndary articulation of consonants

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-A language isolate spoken in [[Verse:Irta|Irta]]'s Scotland and parts of [[Verse:CF Tricin|CF Tricin]]'s Cualand; hypothetical pre-Celtic substrate for Goidelic
+British branch of Maghrebi Arabic with loosely Danish sound changes
-Should be weirder from a SAE perspective than Irish or Hebrew; "Korean but head initial and verb-initial"? With classifiers, honorifics and stuff
+Fortis and lenis resonants; uvularization kept as 2ndary articulation of consonants
-* classifiers; alienable vs inalienable possession
-* no case or construct state; "noun1-3SG noun2" (inalienable) or "noun1 3SG-CLF noun2" (alienable) is used for possession
-* prefix mania
-* word order is strictly VOS; emphasis requires fronting and cleft constructions
-* No definite articles
-pencil 1SG-CLF_long_object 'my pencil'
-p t{{den}} k f θ x m n{{den}} l{{den}} r s ʃ h
-i e a o u
-vowel length might arise allophonically by dropping h
-st person l, 2nd person p, 3rd person n