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==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
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! colspan="2" | !! colspan="2" | [[w:Labial consonant|Labial]] !! colspan="2" | [[w:Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]] !! rowspan="2" | [[w:Palatal consonant|Palatal]] !! colspan="2" | [[w:Velar consonant|Velar]] !! rowspan="2" | [[w:Glottal consonant|Glottal]] | |||
|- | |||
! colspan="2" | !! plain !! [[w:Palatalization|pal.]] !! plain !! pal. !! plain !! pal. | |||
|- | |||
! colspan="2" | [[w:Nasal consonant|Nasal]] | |||
| [[w:Voiced bilabial nasal|m]] || mʲ || [[w:Voiced alveolar nasal|n]] || nʲ || || [[w:Voiced velar nasal|ŋ]] || ŋʲ | |||
|- | |||
! rowspan="2" | [[w:stop consonant|Stop]] | |||
! [[w:Voicelessness|Voiceless]] | |||
| [[w:Voiceless bilabial stop|p]] || pʲ || [[w:Voiceless alveolar stop|t]] || [[w:Voiceless postalveolar affricate|t͡ʃ]] || || [[w:Voiceless velar stop|k]] || kʲ | |||
|- | |||
! [[w:Voice (phonetics)|Voiced]] | |||
| [[w:Voiced bilabial stop|b]] || bʲ || [[w:Voiced alveolar stop|d]] [[w:Voiced postalveolar affricate|d͡ʒ]] || || [[w:Voiced velar stop|g]] || gʲ | |||
|- | |||
! rowspan="2" | [[w:Fricative consonant|Fricative]] | |||
! [[w:Voicelessness|Voiceless]] | |||
| [[w:Voiceless labiodental fricative|f]] || fʲ || [[w:Voiceless alveolar fricative|s]] || [[w:Voiceless postalveolar fricative|ʃ]] || || [[w:Voiceless velar fricative|x]] || xʲ || [[w:Voiceless glottal fricative|h]] | |||
|- | |||
! [[w:Voice (phonetics)|Voiced]] | |||
| [[w:Voiced labiodental fricative|v]] || vʲ || colspan="3" | || [[w:Voiced velar fricative|ɣ]] | |||
|- | |||
! colspan="2" | [[w:Approximant|Approximant]] | |||
| [[w:Voiced labial–velar approximant|w]] || || [[w:Voiced retroflex approximant|ɻ]] [[w:Voiced alveolar lateral approximant|ɫ]] || lʲ || [[w:Voiced palatal approximant|j]] | |||
|} | |||
*/v/ only occurs in loanwords, and is often replaced by /vʲ/ or /w/. | |||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
Cruckeny stress is variabe, but in native words is predominantly initial. | |||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
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| Cruckeny | |
|---|---|
| Crucunee | |
| Pronunciation | [ˈkʰɻʌk(ə)nɪi] |
| Created by | Dillon Hartwig |
| Date | 2023 |
| Setting | West Virginia and Kentucky, United States |
Indo-European
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Early form | |
Cruckeny /ˈkrʌkəni/ (Cruckeny: Crucunee [ˈkʰɻʌk(ə)nɪi]) is a Celtic language spoken in central Appalachia.
Etymology
Cruckeny is from Crucunee, from Irish cnoc-theanga "hill speech."
Orthography
Cruckeny is rarely written and does not have a standard orthography, with most texts using ad hoc English-based orthographies. Linguifex documentation of Cruckeny uses the following:
| A a | Aa aa | Au au | Ai ai | B b | By by | C c | Ch ch | Cy cy | D d |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| /æ/ | /aː/ | /æɒ/ | /eɪ/ | /b/ | /bʲ/ | /k/ | /t͡ʃ/ | /kʲ/ | /d/ |
| E e | Ee ee | Er er | F f | Fy fy | G g | Gh gh | Gy gy | H h | I i |
| /ɛ/ | /ɪi/ | /ɚ/ | /f/ | /fʲ/ | /g/ | /ɣ/ | /gʲ/ | /h/ | /ɪ/ |
| J j | Kh kh | Khy khy | L l | Ly ly | M m | My my | N n | Ny ny | Ng ng |
| /d͡ʒ/ | /x/ | /xʲ/ | /ɫ/ | /lʲ/ | /m/ | /mʲ/ | /n/ | /nʲ/ | /ŋ/ |
| Ngy ngy | O o | Oa oa | Oar oar | Oi oi | Oo oo | Ou ou | Our our | P p | Py py |
| /ŋʲ/ | /ɑ/ | /əᵿ/ | /oɻ/ | /oi/ | /ᵿʉ/ | /ɑɒ/ | /ɔɻ/ | /p/ | /pʲ/ |
| R r | S s | Sh sh | T t | U u | V v | Vy vy | W w | Y y | |
| /ɻ/ | /s/ | /ʃ/ | /t/ | /ə,ʌ/ | /v/ | /vʲ/ | /w/ | /j/ |
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | pal. | plain | pal. | plain | pal. | ||||
| Nasal | m | mʲ | n | nʲ | ŋ | ŋʲ | |||
| Stop | Voiceless | p | pʲ | t | t͡ʃ | k | kʲ | ||
| Voiced | b | bʲ | d d͡ʒ | g | gʲ | ||||
| Fricative | Voiceless | f | fʲ | s | ʃ | x | xʲ | h | |
| Voiced | v | vʲ | ɣ | ||||||
| Approximant | w | ɻ ɫ | lʲ | j | |||||
- /v/ only occurs in loanwords, and is often replaced by /vʲ/ or /w/.
Vowels
Prosody
Cruckeny stress is variabe, but in native words is predominantly initial.
Morphology
Nouns
Pronouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Negation
Numerals
Syntax
Constituent order
Cruckeny word order is strictly SVO outside of music, where VSO also occurs.