Tardigrades (Latfuts) are microscopic, water-dwelling, segmented animals. At some point in history, they learned to speak Gothic.
| Latin | Insular Proto-Romance |
Insular Romance | Veithois | example | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| transcription | IPA | orthography | IPA | ||||||||
| ī | /i/ | i | /i/ | i | /i/ | vid | /vid/ | ||||
| i | /ɪ/ | ẹ | /e/ | è | ei | /ɛ/ | /ei̯/ | sec | peil | /sɛk/ | /pei̯l/ |
| ē | /e/ | ment | cein | /mɛnt/ | /t͡ʃei̯n/ | ||||||
| oe | ester | feid | /ɛstər/ | /fei̯d/ | |||||||
| e | /ɛ/ | ę | /ɛ/ | é | /e/ | ter | pedh | /tɛr/ | /peð/ | ||
| ae | estod | cel | /ɛˈstod/ | /t͡ʃel/ | |||||||
| a | /a/ | a | /a/ | a | /a/ | can | /kan/ | ||||
| ā | /ɑ/ | ǫ | /ɔ/ | ò | ó | /ɔ/ | /o/ | nos | /noz/ | ||
| o | /ɔ/ | sot | cor | /sɔt/ | /kor/ | ||||||
| ō | /o/ | ọ | /o/ | ou | eu | /u/ | /e/ | mount | fleur | /munt/ | /fler/ |
| u | /ʊ/ | gout | gheul | /gut/ | /gel/ | ||||||
| ū | /u/ | u | /u/ | u | /i/ | mur | /mir/ | ||||
| au | /au/ | au | /au/ | au | /ai/ | caudh | /kaið/ | ||||
| Initial | Medial | Final | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proto-Italic | +r | +l pinguis | +labial (/p, b, f, m/) | +v (/w/) | +other | +one consonant | +cluster | absolutely final | ||||
| one consonant | cluster | s | m, n | other | ||||||||
| i | i | e[a] | i? | ʏ (sonus medius)[b] | u | e > i[c] | i[d] | i | e | i | e | e |
| e | e | o > u[e] | e[f] | |||||||||
| a | a | o > u[g] | ||||||||||
| o | o | o > u[h] | o[i] | u | ||||||||
| u | u | u[j] | u[k] | |||||||||
| ī | ī | i | ī? | |||||||||
| ē | ē | e | ē? | |||||||||
| ā | ā | a | a, ā | |||||||||
| ō | ō | o | ō | |||||||||
| ū | ū | u | ū? | |||||||||
| ei | ī | |||||||||||
| ai | ae | ī | ||||||||||
| oi | ū, oe | ū | ī | |||||||||
| au | au | ū | ||||||||||
| ou | ū | |||||||||||
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