Northern Languages

Northern languages
Created by	–
Geographic distribution	Northern region of the central continent
Linguistic classification	Proto-Northern (†) Northern languages
Subdivisions	North-Northern (†) South-Northern (†) ??? (†)

The language known as I Kronurum (IK) is a part of the Northern Languages linguistic family, which populates the northern region of the central continent.

Notwithstanding the several subgroups that have split from this branch at different stages, this Central Branch of the family has been studied as a continuity in which four main stages can be identified: Ancient IK (AIK), Old IK (OIK), Middle IK (MIK; together with Early-MIK, EMIK) and Modern IK (MoIK; together with Early-MoIK, EMoIK).

Tree

This is the language tree for the Northern Languages family

Proto-Northern (†)	North-Northern (†)  West-Northern (†)  AIK (†)  OldIK (†)  EMIK (†)  MIK (†)  [EMoIK]    [Northern MoIK]    [Southern MoIK]    [Insular MoIK]  [Old a]  Modern a  [Old b]  Modern b  [Old c]  Modern c  [Old d]  Modern d  Old x  Middle x  Z  z  Ancient ?  Old ?  Middle ?  East-Northern (†)  Old?  South-Northern (†)  ?  [???] (†)  ?

Words

A preliminary sketch of the developement of some words.

An ancient loanword

The development of the word for the MIK marka, metal, a loan of disputed origin into the North-Northern branch, probably from a Paleo-Northern language.

P-N (†) n/a

N-N (†) paɾ.ˈkaː.len  W-N (†) ˈba.ɾa.ka.lə  AIK (†) ˈmä.ɾä.käl  OIK (†) ˈmɑɾ.käl  EMIK (†) ˈmɑɾ.kɐ  MIK (†) ˈmɑɾ.kɐ  [EMoIK] ˈmɑɾ.kə    [N MoIK] ˈmɑɾk    [S MoIK] ˈmɑː.kʌ    [I MoIK] ˈmäɾ.ki  [Oa] ˈmɑː.kɐ  Ma ˈmɑ.kːɐ  [Ob] ˈmɔː.kə  Mb ˈmɔːk  [Oc] ˈmɑɾk  Mc ˈmäɾk  [Od] ˈmɑɾ.kä  Md ˈmäɾ.gä  Ox (†) ˈmɑɾ.käw  Mx (†) ˈmäl.kau̯  Z (†) ˈmɑl.käɾ  z (†) ˈmɑl.kä  A? (†) ˈbaː.kle  O? (†) ˈba.kɘl  M? (†) ˈbaː.kl̩  E-N (†) faɾ.ˈka.lːe  O? ˈfaːɾ.ka.le  S-N (†) n/a   /  [???] (†) n/a   /