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{{Infobox language
{{Infobox language
| name = Belter Creole
| name = Belter Creole
| altname = Belter
| nativename = lang belta
| nativename = lang belta
| pronunciation = laŋg ˈbælta
| pronunciation = laŋg ˈbælta
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| created = 2014
| created = 2014
| creator = [[w:Nick Farmer|Nick Farmer]]
| creator = [[w:Nick Farmer|Nick Farmer]]
| familycolor =
| posteriori = [[w:Romance languages|Romance languages]], [[w:Slavic languages|Slavic languages]], [[Germanic languages|Germanic languages]], [[w:Japanese language|Japanese]], [[w:Chinese language|Chinese]], [[w:Arabic language|Arabic]], [[w:Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[w:Zulu language|Zulu]]
| fam1 = [[w:Constructed language|Constructed languages]]
| familycolor = Constructed language
| fam2 = [[w:Artistic language|Artistic languages]]
| script1 = Latn
| fam3 = [[w:Fictional language|Fictional languages]]
| agency = [[w:Nick Farmer|Nick Farmer]]
| script = [[w:Latin script|Latin script]]
| notice = IPA
| notice = IPA
}}
}}
'''Belter Creole'''(''lang belta''), aka '''Belter''' is a constructed language created by [[w:Nick Farmer|Nick Farmer]] for [[w:The Expanse (TV series)|''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.
'''Belter Creole'''(''lang belta''), aka '''Belter''' is a constructed language created by [[w:Nick Farmer|Nick Farmer]] for [[w:The Expanse (TV series)|''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.
Belter has various accents and dialects due to the immense cultural diversity of the Belt's inhabitants. According to Nick Farmer himself, the dialect used in the TV show is the [[w:Ceres|Ceres]] dialect.
==Novel version==
There is a distinction between the language made by Nick Farmer for the TV series and the language created by James S.A. Corey in the ''The Expanse'' novel series. In the novels, the language is presented as more of an English dialect "to give the reader a sense of being excluded from [the] culture". It has no developed phonology, morphology and syntax, and instead mixes vocabulary from various languages spoken on Earth, including English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Estonian, Esperanto, French, Korean, Chinese, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Dutch, Arabic, Catalan, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, Russian and Turkish.
The novel language is also not internally consistent, for example the words ''la''<ref>From Arabic لا(''laa'')</ref>, ''na''<ref>From English ''nah''</ref> and ''ne''<ref>From Serbo-Croatian ''не''(''ne'')</ref> all mean "no", while ''gato''<ref>From Japanese ありがとう(''arigatou'').</ref> and ''aituma''<ref>From Estonian ''aitäh''</ref> both mean "thank you".
<blockquote>''Tu run spin, pow, Schlauch tu way acima and ido.''<br>
Go spinward to the tube station, which will take you back to the docks.</blockquote>
==Phonology==
==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Orthography===
Although all of Belter Creole's appearances have been written in the [[w:Latin script|Latin script]], Farmer claims that the language can be written in other writing systems as well.
Although all of Belter Creole's appearances(both in and out of the series) have been written in the [[w:Latin script|Latin script]], Farmer claims that the language can be written in other writing systems as well.
====Alphabet====
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Nick Farmer's alphabet
|-
! '''Majuscule'''
| A
| B
| C
| D
| E
| F
| G
| I
| K
| L
| M
| N
| O
| P
| R
| S
| T
| U
| V
| W
| X
| Y
| Z
|-
! '''Minuscule'''
| a
| b
| c
| d
| e
| f
| g
| i
| k
| l
| m
| n
| o
| p
| r
| s
| t
| u
| v
| w
| x
| y
| z
|}
 
===Consonants===
===Consonants===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
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| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | &nbsp;[[w:Voiceless velar stop|k]] || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced velar stop|ɡ]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | &nbsp;[[w:Voiceless velar stop|k]] || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced velar stop|ɡ]]
| colspan="2" |
|-
! [[w:Affricate consonant|Affricate]]
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless alveolar affricate|t͡ʃ]] || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced post-alveolar affricate|d͡ʒ]]
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
|-
|-
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| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
|}
|}
[[w:Digraph (orthography)|Digraphs]]: [[w:Voiceless palato-alveolar affricate|t͡ʃ]], [[w:Voiced post-alveolar affricate|d͡ʒ]].
===Vowels===
===Vowels===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align=center;"
|+ Vowels
|-
!
! colspan="2" |[[w:Front vowels|Front]]
! colspan="2" |[[w:Back vowels|Back]]
|-
! [[w:Close vowels|Close]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Close front unrounded vowel|i]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Close back rounded vowel|u]]
|-
! [[w:Near-open vowels|Near-open]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Near-open front unrounded vowel|æ]]
| colspan="2" |
|-
! [[w:Open vowels|Open]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Open front unrounded vowel|a]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Open back rounded vowel|ɒ]]
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align=center;"
|+ Nasalised vowels
|-
!
! colspan="2" |[[w:Front vowels|Front]]
! colspan="2" |[[w:Back vowels|Back]]
|-
! [[w:Close vowels|Close]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" |
|-
! [[w:Near-open vowels|Near-open]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Near-open front unrounded vowel|æ̃]]
| colspan="2" |
|-
! [[w:Open vowels|Open]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Open front unrounded vowel|ã]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" |
|}
===Prosody===
===Prosody===
====Stress====
====Stress====
====Intonation====
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⟩, although in general stress is placed on the [[w:Stress (linguistics)|penultimate]] syllable of a word.
 
===Phonotactics===
===Phonotactics===
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===Morphophonology===
===Morphophonology===
==Morphology==
==Morphology==
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<small>''See also: [[Belter Creole/Swadesh list]].''</small>
 
===Particles===
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There are two Belter particles: indefinite ''wa'' and definite ''da.''
 
===Pronouns===
Nouns
====Personal pronouns====
Adjectives
{| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;"
Verbs
! !! Singular !! Plural
Adverbs
|-
Particles
! First
Derivational morphology
| ''mi'' || ''milowda''
|-
! Second
| ''to'' || ''tolowda''
|-
! Third
| ''im'' || ''imalowda/imim''
|}
==Syntax==
In Belter, questions are formed by adding ''ke'' at the end of a statement, e.g. ''To showxa lang belta''(You speak Belter) and ''To showxa lang belta, ke?''(Do you speak Belter?). Additionally, ''keyá'' means "isn't it", so if one wanted to say "You speak Belter, right?" it would be ''To showxa lang belta, keyá?''


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Belter also uses the [[w:Zero copula|zero copula]] feature, e.g. ''mi nadzhush'' means "I am tired", although a literal translation would simply be "I tired".
 
==Syntax==
===Constituent order===
===Constituent order===
Belter uses a '''SVO'''(subject-verb-object) sentence structure, e.g. ''To showxa lang belta''(You speak Belter). In that sentence, ''To'' is the subject, ''showxa'' is the verb, and ''lang belta'' is the object.
===Noun phrase===
===Noun phrase===
===Verb phrase===
===Verb phrase===
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==Example texts==
==Example texts==
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Article 1 of the [[w:Universal Declaration of Human Rights|UDHR]] in Belter Creole:
<blockquote>''Kowl mang fong beref im im ferí unte eka [...]. Imalowda pensa unte sensa we gut unte we mal. Unte im mogut fo manting du wit sif asilik beratna unte sésata.''</blockquote>
 
English translation:
<blockquote>All human beings are born free and equal [...]. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.</blockquote>
 
==Other resources==
==Other resources==
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