Belter Creole

Belter Creole
lang belta
Pronunciation	[laŋg ˈbælta]
Created by	Nick Farmer
Date	2014
Setting	The Expanse
Native to	The Belt
Language family	Constructed languages Artistic languages Fictional languages Belter Creole

Belter Creole(lang belta), aka Belter is a constructed language created by Nick Farmer for The Expanse sci-fi book and TV series. It was made as an English creole, but its lexical base has features of Romance languages, Germanic languages and Slavic languages, as well as languages like Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew and Zulu.

Phonology

Orthography

Although all of Belter Creole's appearances have been written in the Latin script, Farmer claims that the language can be written in other writing systems as well.

Consonants

	Labial		Labiodental		Dental/ alveolar		Post- alveolar/ palatal		Velar		Labial-velar
Nasal		m				n		ɲ		ŋ
Plosive	p	b			t	d			k	ɡ
Fricative	s	z	f	v	ʃ				x
Approximant								j				w
Lateral						l
Flap						ɾ

Digraphs: t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ.

Vowels

	Front		Back
Close		i		u
Near-open		æ
Open		a		ɒ

Prosody

Stress

In Belter, different than usual stress is indicated with an acute accent on a vowel, e.g. ámolof([ˈamolof]), meaning "love". Vowels that can appear with acute accents are <á>, <é>, <ó> and <ú>.