Niemish

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Niemish
Nimsk
Pronunciation[/nʲimsk/]
Created byUser:Tardigrade
Date2015
Official status
Official language in
Niemgard
Language codes
ISO 639-3qnm
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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 and Pronunciation

The Niemish alphabet consists of 33 letters.

Niemish alphabet
Majuscule forms (also called uppercase or capital letters)
A Ą Ä Ą̈ B C* D E Ę F G H I Į J K L M N O Ǫ (Q) P R S T U Ų (V) W X Y Z
Minuscule forms (also called lowercase)
a ą ä ą̈ b c* d e ę f g h i į j k l m n o ǫ (q) p r s t u ų (v) w x y z
IPA values
/a~aː/ /ã~ãː/ /ɛ~eː/ /ɛ̃~ẽː/ /b~bʲ/ /k/ʦʲ/ /d~dʲ/ /ɛ~eː/ /ɛ̃~ẽː/ /f~fʲ/ /g~gʲ/ /h/ /ɪ~iː/ /ɪ̃~ĩː/ /j/ /k~kʲ/ /l~lʲ/ /m~mʲ/ /n~nʲ/ /ɔ~oː/ /ɔ̃~õː/ /kw~kʲvʲ/ /p~pʲ/ /ɾ~ɾʲ/ /s~sʲ/ /t~tʲ/ /ʊ~uː/ /ʊ̃~ũː/ /v~vʲ/ /w~vʲ/ /ks/ /ɨ~ɨː/ /z~zʲ/

The acute and grave accent can respectively mark stressed short vowels and stressed long vowels (or diphthongs). However, these are generally not used except in dictionaries for clarity. In addition, Niemish orthography uses five digraphs ⟨Ch, Cz, Ph, Sz, Th⟩ and two trigraphs ⟨Dsz, Zsz⟩; these function as sequences of two or three letters for collation purposes. The letters ⟨C⟩ (outside the digraphs ⟨Ch, Cz⟩), ⟨Q⟩ and ⟨V⟩ (and the non-palatalised phonetic value of ⟨V⟩) only appear in loanwords, as do the digraphs ⟨Ph, Th⟩ and the trigraph ⟨Dsz⟩.

Orthography

Cyrillic script