Prime Pidgin of Antarctica (PPA)

Prime Pidgin of Antarctica (PPA)
Prime Antarctic Pidgin (PAP)
Antarctic
(Official language)
Flag of United Nations of Antarctica
Created by	Caesar05
Date	2021
Setting	Trinity Peninsula (de facto), Antarctic Peninsula (de jure)
Native to	United Nations of Antarctica, Esperanza Base
Ethnicity	Antarctic
Extinct	∼2250
Language family	Pidgin Prime Pidgin of Antarctica (PPA)
Early form	Various 21st century languages
Dialect	Proto-Antarctic
Trinity Peninsula

Introduction

Classification

Various 21st century languages of Antarctica	Surviving languages Basic English Residual Spanish Residual Russian Other sporadic residual languages, creoles and pidgins Prime Pidgin of Antarctica Nuclear (Group A) > Early PPA Central (Group B) > Standard PPA > Proto-Antarctic Peripheral (Group C) > Late PPA

Linguistic history of Antarctica

Language	Words
English	467
Spanish	248
Russian	105
French	32
Korean	30
Japanese	29
Chinese	28
Italian	23
German	18
Hindi	17
Portuguese	15
Dutch	14
Norwegian	10
Polish	10
Ukrainian	5
Afrikaans	4
Xhosa	4
Zulu	4
Swedish	4
Finnish	3
Czech	2
Romanian	2
Bulgarian	2

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Coronal			Dorsal
			Dento-Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		*m	*n	(*ɳ)	(*ɲ)	*ŋ
Plosive	Voiceless	*p	*t	(*ʈ)	(*c)	*k	(*ʔ)
	Voiced	*b	*d		(*ɟ)	*g
Fricative	Voiceless	*f	*s		(*ʃ)	(*x)	*h
	Voiced	(*v)	(*z)		(*ʒ)	(*ɣ)
Liquid	Rhotic	(*β)	*r	(*ɻ)	(*ɾ)
	Lateral		*l	(*ɭ)

Vowels and approximants

		Front	Central	Back
Approximant		*j		*w
High	Tense	*i	(*ɨ)	*u
	Lax	(*ɪ)		(*ʊ)
Mid	Tense	*e	(*ə)	*o
	Lax	(*ɛ)		(*ɔ)
Low			*a

Prosody

	Complex	Simplified	Diacritic
High	˦˥	˦	á (Acute accent)
Mid	˦˧˨	(˧)	a (Without accent)
Low	˨˩	˨	à (Grave accent)

Orthography

N.	Letter	IPA	Name	Original pronunciation	Source language	N.	Letter	IPA	Name	Original pronunciation	Source language	N.	Letter	IPA	Name	Original pronunciation	Source language
1	m	/m/	em		English	2	i	/i/	i		English	3	c	/k/	kii		English
4	y	/j/	jaɪ		English	5	u	/u/	u		English	6	a	/a/	a		English
7	p	/p/	pii		English	8	w	/w/	wii		English	9	n	/n/	en		English
10	t	/t/	tii		English	11	l	/l/	el		English	12	s	/s/	es		English
13	b	/b/	bii		English	14	ng	/ŋ/	eŋ		English	15	e	/e/	e		English
16	o	/o/	o		English	17	g	/g/	gii		English	18	h	/h/	heɪtʃ		English
19	d	/d/	dii		English	20	r	/r/	ere		Spanish	21	f	/f/	efe		Spanish
22	ñ	/ɲ/	eɲe		Spanish	23	ch	/ʃ/	ʃe		Spanish	24	-	/ʔ/	giʔon		Spanish
25	é	/ɛ/	ɛ		Spanish	26	ó	/ɔ/	ɔ		Spanish	27	z	/z/	zeta		Spanish
28	ll	/ʒ/	eʒe		Spanish	29	v	/v/	ve		Spanish	30	р	/ɾ/	ɛɾ		Russian
31	а	/ə/	ə		Russian	32	х	/x/	xa		Russian	33	ы	/ɨ/	ɨ		Russian
34	tt	/ʈ/	ʈe		French	35	ㅣ	/ɪ/	ɪ		Korean	36	ガ	/ɣ/	ɣa		Japanese
37	七	/c/	cii		Chinese	38	ù	/ʊ/	ʊ		Italian	39	nk	/ɳ/	ɛɳ		German
40	ज	/ɟ/	ɟə		Hindi	41	lh	/ɭ/	ɛɭi		Portuguese	42	wh	/β/	βee		Dutch
43	р'	/ɻ/	ɛɻ		Ukrainian

Phonotactics

These lists of sound changes are applicable in order in [SCA2.