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Grekelin comes from the Latin word <i>Graeco</i>, which means Greek. The suffix -lin comes from Proto-Grekelin "Hellin" which is the ethnonym for the Greeks. | Grekelin comes from the Latin word <i>Graeco</i>, which means Greek. The suffix -lin comes from Proto-Grekelin "Hellin" which is the ethnonym for the Greeks. | ||
Another legend says that Grekelin was a very old Slavic word to describe the Greeks of the Black Sea, during the Kievan Rus times. It appears that the surname Grekelin exists in Ukrainian and Belarusian (''Грекелін''). | Another legend says that Grekelin was a very old Slavic word to describe the Greeks of the Black Sea, during the Kievan Rus times. It appears that the surname Grekelin exists in Ukrainian and Belarusian (''Грекелін''). | ||
==Phonology== | |||
Grekelin's phonology is extensively influenced by Hungarian, and, in the Slavic dialect, by other Slavic languages. The accent varies depending on the location, so this is the standard Grekelin phonology that is used in education and formal speech: | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|+ Consonants in Grekelin | |||
|- | |||
! rowspan="2" | ↓Manner/Place→ | |||
! colspan="6" | Place of Articulation | |||
|- | |||
! Bilabial !! Labiodental !! Alveolar !! Alveolo-palatal !! Palatal !! Velar | |||
|- | |||
! Nasal | |||
| /m/ || /n/ || || || || | |||
|- | |||
! Stop | |||
| /b p/ || /d/ /t/ || /c/ /ɟ/ || /ɡ/ /k/ || || | |||
|- | |||
! Affricate | |||
| || || /ʥ/ /ʨ/ || || || | |||
|- | |||
! Fricative | |||
| /f/ || /s/ || /ɕ ʑ/ || /ç/ || /x/ || | |||
|- | |||
! Approximant | |||
| || || || || /j/ || | |||
|- | |||
! Trill | |||
| || || || || || /r/ | |||
|- | |||
! Lateral approximant | |||
| || || /l/ /ɫ/ || || /ʎ/ || | |||
|} | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|+ Vowels in International Phonetic Alphabet | |||
|- | |||
! rowspan="2" | !! colspan="2" | Height | |||
|- | |||
! Front !! Back | |||
|- | |||
! High | |||
| /i/ || /y/ || /u/ | |||
|- | |||
! High-mid | |||
| /ø/ || || /o/ | |||
|- | |||
! Low-mid | |||
| /ɛ/ || || /e/ | |||
|- | |||
! Low | |||
| /a/ || || /ɑ/ | |||
|} | |||
==Alphabet and Orthography== | ==Alphabet and Orthography== | ||