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Bjeheondians sometimes reduce vowels to /ə/ even when native accents don't, like sometimes /səmtəms/; they also generalize plurals of nouns ending in f and th, the latter pronounced /dz/.
Bjeheondians sometimes reduce vowels to /ə/ even when native accents don't, like sometimes /səmtəms/; they also generalize plurals of nouns ending in f and th, the latter pronounced /dz/.


Other common phonetic features are a total merger of voiced th and d,
Other common phonetic features are a total merger of voiced th and d and th-stopping. R was historically uvular in broad Bjeheondian accents and alveolar in cultivated accents but this is reversed in modern times.

Revision as of 11:26, 8 November 2021

Things we're tempted to do in Tricin but won't do. :)

People

  • Etsoj Jopah -> Tsăhong Starwise

Languages

  • Semitic, IE - spoken by immigrants from Apple PIE
    • Bjeheondian English
    • Bjeheondian Hebrew
  • Talmic
    • Middle Eevo
      • Judeo-Eevo
    • Wiebian
      • a Yiddish-inspired descendant, vibish, spoken in Wieb
      • a tonal language inspired by Danish and Vietnamese

Bjeheondian English

VSO exclamations common; certain Bjeheondian calques; varying levels of Windermere and Shalaian phoetic influences

Shalaian accents sound closest to what we know as native English

Bjeheondians sometimes reduce vowels to /ə/ even when native accents don't, like sometimes /səmtəms/; they also generalize plurals of nouns ending in f and th, the latter pronounced /dz/.

Other common phonetic features are a total merger of voiced th and d and th-stopping. R was historically uvular in broad Bjeheondian accents and alveolar in cultivated accents but this is reversed in modern times.