Reardish

Reardish
Reoþþisco · Reoððisco
Pronunciation	[reo̯ð.ðis.ko]
Created by	wfosøra
Ethnicity	Reardish people
Language family	Indo-European Germanic Reardish
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Germanic Archaic Reardish (Or "Proto-Reardish")
Writing systems	Latin Runic
ConWorkShop	HDS

Reardish (Autonym: Reoþþisco; Reardish: [reo̯ð.ðis.ko]) is a Germanic language spoken throughout Britain. Its native population is mostly centered around southern to middle England. Though a descendant of Proto-Germanic, it developed alongside Old English, leading to its divergence.

Having developed alongside Old English, Reardish experienced many of the same sound changes as Old English, though it lacks several that would allow it a classification closer to Old English, it cannot even be classed as West Germanic due to it lacking some of the family's distinctive sound changes. As such, it must be placed in its own branch, typically one called the "Reardic" branch.

Today, Reardish is typically written in the Latin alphabet, still using the Insular script, the alphabet is near-identical to that of Old English. In many artistic works, and quite often in elders, Anglo-Frisian runes are still used. Efforts to reinstate runes have been successful, leading to nearly all government issued writings (letters, signs, documents, etc) being offered in both scripts.

Etymology

Reoþþisco, a compound of rāþþo and -isco, roughly means "pertaining to language", though -isco, the feminine singular of -isċ, is largely used to mean 'of our people', which often replaces þēodisċ, understanding this leads to the meaning "The language of our people", or more simply, "Our language".

Reardish, the English name, is a cognate based borrowing, with reard being the direct English cognate to rāþþo (the root of reoþþ in the native name)

History

Main article: History of Reardish

Reardish can be roughly split into three stages, those being Archaic Reardish, Anglic-Reardish, and Modern Reardish. Modern Reardish is largely mutually intelligible with Old English, as well as Proto-Germanic. The intelligibility between Modern Reardish and Proto-Germanic is not one of ease, though it is not to the extent of Modern English to Old English, as the understanding does exist even without study, but it takes far higher effort and time for a Modern Reardish speaker to understand Proto-Germanic, the largely intact grammar system lending itself to this understanding being possible.

Phonology

Stress lies on the first syllable unless a stressed prefix is added, in which case the stress stays with the root word and the prefix is given secondary stress.

Consonants

Consonant phonemes

	Labial	Dental	alveolar	palatal	velar
Nasal	m		(n̥) n		(ŋ)
Stop	p b		t d		k (g)
Fricative	f (v)	θ (ð)	s (z)	ʃ	x ɣ
Affricate				tʃ dʒ
Approximant	(ʍ) w		(l̥) l	j
Trill			(r̥) r

Vowels

Monophthongs in Reardish

	Front		Back
	unrounded	rounded	unrounded	rounded
Close	i(ː)	y(ː)		u(ː)
Mid	e(ː)	ø(ː)		o(ː)
Open	æ(ː)		ɑ(ː)

Diphthongs

Diphthongs in Reardish

First element	Short (monomoraic)	Long (bimoraic)	Spelling
High	i͝y	i͞y	ie, īe
Mid	e͝o	e͞o	eo, ēo
Low	æ͝ɑ	æ͞ɑ	ea, ēa

Grammar

Main article: Reardish grammar

Nouns decline for five cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, instrumental. (A sixth case, the vocative, is highly contentious.); three genders: masculine, feminine, neuter; and two numbers; singular, and plural (Reardish has a fully in tact duel declension, but it is only in pronouns and verbs).

Pronouns decline largely the same as nouns, except for having a duel in the first and second persons. The plural third person pronouns have been entirely leveled, so the masculine, feminine, and neuter third person plurals decline identically, though a formal "Archaic masculine" is retained, and has been shifting to have the usage of a formal third person plural.

Syntax

Reardish word order is mostly free, it has a base SOV order, but the language's Inflectional system allow the order to be freer.

Other resources

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• Phrases
• lemmas