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==TT-English, take 2==
'''Wīäkkarung''' (Thackish: ''Wỵạckẹríng wụttle'') is a head-final language inspired by Tamil, Pama-Nyungan, Polynesian, Danish, Arabic, and German.
Germanic and Balto-Slavic isoglosses now split differently between a TT-English branch and a Germano-Balto-Slavic satem branch (Riphean take 2)
== Phonology ==
=== Consonants ===
m /m/ nh /n̪/ n /n/ ng /ŋ/
p /p˭~b/ th /t̪˭~ð/ t /t˭~ɾ/ k /k˭~x/
w /ʋ/ d /ð̞ˤ/ r /ʁ~ɐ̯/ rr /ʀː/ l /l/ h /h/
(d is lowered Arabic Zaa')


==Icelandic giblang?==
=== Vowels ===
i /i/ ī /iː/ e /e/ ē /eː/ a /a/ ā /aː/ o /o/ ō /oː/ u /u/ ū /uː/ ei /aj/ au /aw/
By default, these vowels sound like [i e æ o u ɛj ɛw]; in RTR environments, [ɪ ɛ ɑ ɔ ʊ ɑj ɑw]. An RTR envionment is any vowel adjacent to an emphatic consonant (a cluster containing d, r, or rr).


==Portupie==
=== Phonotactics ===
PIE into European Portuguese gib
Initial dentals (<nh, th, d>) are not allowed. Vowel hiatus is.
 
==Bgapi Island==
Home of a Greek dialect as well as an isolate Bgapian language -- it's assumed to be Nostratic
 
===Phonology of Bgapian===
p pʰ f v t tʰ θ ð ts tsʰ s/ʃ z/ʒ k kʰ x ɣ q
m n ŋ
mb nd ndz ŋɡ (in some dialects)
w j ɾ l r ɮ
a e i o u ə
 
aspirates are written as geminates as in Cypriot Greek and Kapingamarangi
 
===Syntax of Bgapian===
SOV, cases, suffixaufnahme, lots of participles
 
use phrasings from literary Koine Greek
 
==Celtic==
Galatian, Lepontic, Celtiberian, TT-Welsh
 
==Turkey==
Heavily multilingual and IE with its own sprachbund, includes Greek, a Romance language, Galatian, some Iranian languages, some surviving Anatolian languages
 
==Hungary==
Entirely IE?
 
==Albionian==
Britain is completely non-IE in this timeline?
 
==America==
Includes an Iroquoian-speaking country and an Uto-Aztecan-speaking country covering OTL's Southwestern US and Northern Mexico

Latest revision as of 06:57, 30 November 2024

Wīäkkarung (Thackish: Wỵạckẹríng wụttle) is a head-final language inspired by Tamil, Pama-Nyungan, Polynesian, Danish, Arabic, and German.

Phonology

Consonants

m /m/ nh /n̪/ n /n/ ng /ŋ/ p /p˭~b/ th /t̪˭~ð/ t /t˭~ɾ/ k /k˭~x/ w /ʋ/ d /ð̞ˤ/ r /ʁ~ɐ̯/ rr /ʀː/ l /l/ h /h/ (d is lowered Arabic Zaa')

Vowels

i /i/ ī /iː/ e /e/ ē /eː/ a /a/ ā /aː/ o /o/ ō /oː/ u /u/ ū /uː/ ei /aj/ au /aw/ By default, these vowels sound like [i e æ o u ɛj ɛw]; in RTR environments, [ɪ ɛ ɑ ɔ ʊ ɑj ɑw]. An RTR envionment is any vowel adjacent to an emphatic consonant (a cluster containing d, r, or rr).

Phonotactics

Initial dentals (<nh, th, d>) are not allowed. Vowel hiatus is.

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