Niemish

Niemish
Nimsk
Pronunciation	[/nʲimsk/]
Created by	User:Tardigrade
Date	2015
Language family	Indo-European Germanic East Germanic Gothic Post-Gothic Niemish
Official status
Official language in	Niemgard
Language codes
ISO 639-3	qnm
BRCL	grey

Niemish (Nimsk) is an East Germanic language descended from Gothic, the oldest Germanic language with a sizeable text corpus. The name originated from Proto-Slavic *němĭcĭ, an exonym given by speakers of Slavic languages to Germanic speakers. Niemish has undergone extensive influence by Slavic languages and is a member of the Balkan sprachbund, having such features as suffixed definite articles and deriving the future tense from present subjunctive. There is also considerable influence from languages such as Turkish, Hungarian, Greek, Latin and Romance languages.

Scripts

Alphabet

The Niemish alphabet consists of 33 letters.

Majuscule Minuscule IPA A a /a~aː/ Ą ą /ã~ãː/ Ä ä /ɛ~eː/ Ą̈ ą̈ /ɛ̃~ẽː/ B b /b~bʲ/ C c /k~ʦʲ/ D d /d~dʲ/ E e /ɛ~eː/ Ę ę /ɛ̃~ẽː/ F f /f~fʲ/ G g /g~gʲ/

Majuscule Minuscule IPA H h /h/ I i /ɪ~iː/ Į į /ɪ̃~ĩː/ J j /j/ K k /k~kʲ/ L l /l~lʲ/ M m /m~mʲ/ N n /n~nʲ/ O o /ɔ~oː/ Ǫ ǫ /ɔ̃~õː/ P p /p~pʲ/

Majuscule Minuscule IPA (Q) (q) /k~kʲ/ R r /ɾ~ɾʲ/ S s /s~sʲ/ T t /t~tʲ/ U u /ʊ~uː/ Ų ų /ʊ̃~ũ/ (V) (v) /v~vʲ/ W w /w~vʲ/ X x /ks~kʲsʲ/ Y y /ɪ̈~ɨː/ Z z /z~zʲ/

The acute and grave accent can respectively mark stressed long vowels (or diphthongs) and stressed short vowels. These are generally not used except in dictionaries for clarity.

In addition, Niemish orthography uses six digraphs: ⟨Ch, Cz, Ph, Sz, Th, Tz⟩ and two trigraphs:⟨Dsz, Zsz⟩ These function as sequences of two or three letters for collation purposes.

Outside digraphs, the letters ⟨C, Q, V⟩ only appear in loanwords, as do the digraphs ⟨Ph, Th⟩ and the trigraph ⟨Dsz⟩.