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Belter Creole
lang belta
Pronunciation[laŋg ˈbælta]
Created byNick Farmer
Date2014
SettingThe Expanse
Native toThe Belt
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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>.

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Other resources