Buerkaans

Buerkantch
Buerkáns
Pronunciation	[[Help:IPA|buɛ̯ɾ'kaːns]]
Created by	–
Native speakers	No Census Data (2014)
Language family	Indo-European Germanic Buerkantch
Language codes
ISO 639-1	bu
ISO 639-2	bue
ISO 639-3	bue
The flag of De Huylands

Background

Buerkáns is spoken in the fictitious country of De Huylands, known as such in English, even though the translation is literally The Highlands. I like to imagine De Huylands exists in the same world as Alska:Alska, where it would be known in Alska as Højlandene.

Buerkáns takes influences from Dutch/Afrikaans, English, and the Scandinavian Languages. I wanted to make something in between all three, with the primary vocabulary a mix of Dutch-Danish/Swedish-derived roots and grammar closer to a simpler version of German.

Phonology

Buerkáns has a large phonology, similar to that of Dutch or Afrikaans, mixed slightly with Danish. There is a large vowel inventory of 13 distinct vowel quantities.

Vowels

Phonemes
	Front	Central	Back
Closed	i y		u
Near-closed	ɪ
Mid-closed	e ø		o
Mid-open	ɛ	ə	ʌ ɔ
Near-open	æ
Open	a

Consonants

Phonemes	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop	p b		t d			k g
Affricate
Nasal	m		n			ŋ (ŋg)
Fricative		f v	s	ɕ tɕ	(ç)		h
Approximant			ɾ		j
Lateral approximant			l

b [b] d [d] f [f] g [x] h [h] j [j] |k [k] l [l]/[ɫ] velarized to [ɫ] often when word-initial m [m] n [n] ng [ŋ] p [p] r [ɾ] trilled when word-initial, tapped in other positions s [s]