Prime Pidgin of Antarctica (PPA)

Prime Pidgin of Antarctica (PPA)
Prime Antarctic Pidgin (PAP)
Antarctic
(Official language)
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Created byCaesar05
Date2021
SettingTrinity Peninsula (de facto), Antarctic Peninsula (de jure)
Native toUnited Nations of Antarctica, Esperanza Base
EthnicityAntarctic
Extinct∼2250
Pidgin
  • Prime Pidgin of Antarctica (PPA)
Early form
Various 21st century languages
Dialect
Ant-pen-map-Trinity-Peninsula.PNG
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)
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/ j 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 /ɪ/ ɪ Korean 36 /ɣ/ ɣa Japanese
37 /c/ cii Chinese 38 ù /ʊ/ ʊ Italian 39 nk /ɳ/ ɛɳ German
40 /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.

Morphology

Lexicon

Nouns

Adjectives

Verbs

Adverbs

Particles

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Other resources

Example texts