Cruckeny

Cruckeny
Crucunee
Pronunciation	[ˈkʰɻʌk(ə)nɪi]
Created by	Dillon Hartwig
Date	2023
Setting	West Virginia and Kentucky, United States
Language family	Indo-European Celtic Cruckeny
Early form	Irish

Cruckeny /ˈkrʌkəni/ (Cruckeny: Crucunee [ˈkʰɻʌk(ə)nɪi]) is a Celtic language spoken in central Appalachia.

Etymology

Cruckeny is from Crucunee, from Irish cnoc-theanga "hill speech."

Orthography

Cruckeny is rarely written and does not have a standard orthography, with most texts using ad hoc English-based orthographies. Linguifex documentation of Cruckeny uses the following:

A a	Aa aa	Au au	Ai ai	B b	By by	C c	Ch ch	Cy cy	D d
/æ/	/aː/	/æɒ/	/eɪ/	/b/	/bʲ/	/k/	/t͡ʃ/	/kʲ/	/d/
E e	Ee ee	Er er	F f	Fy fy	G g	Gh gh	Gy gy	H h	I i
/ɛ/	/ɪi/	/ɚ/	/f/	/fʲ/	/g/	/ɣ/	/gʲ/	/h/	/ɪ/
J j	Kh kh	Khy khy	L l	Ly ly	M m	My my	N n	Ny ny	Ng ng
/d͡ʒ/	/x/	/xʲ/	/ɫ/	/lʲ/	/m/	/mʲ/	/n/	/nʲ/	/ŋ/
Ngy ngy	O o	Oa oa	Oar oar	Oi oi	Oo oo	Ou ou	Our our	P p	Py py
/ŋʲ/	/ɑ/	/əᵿ/	/oɻ/	/oi/	/ᵿʉ/	/ɑɒ/	/ɔɻ/	/p/	/pʲ/
R r	S s	Sh sh	T t	U u	V v	Vy vy	W w	Y y
/ɻ/	/s/	/ʃ/	/t/	/ə,ʌ/	/v/	/vʲ/	/w/	/j/

Phonology

Consonants

Consonants

		Labial		Alveolar		Palatal	Velar		Glottal
		plain	pal.	plain	pal.		plain	pal.
Nasal		m	mʲ	n	nʲ		ŋ	ŋʲ
Stop	Voiceless	p	pʲ	t	t͡ʃ		k	kʲ
	Voiced	b	bʲ	d d͡ʒ		g	gʲ
Fricative	Voiceless	f	fʲ	s	ʃ		x	xʲ	h
	Voiced	v	vʲ				ɣ
Approximant		w		ɻ ɫ	lʲ	j

• /v/ only occurs in loanwords, and is often replaced by /vʲ/ or /w/.

Prosody

Cruckeny stress is variabe, but in native words is predominantly initial.

Syntax

Constituent order

Cruckeny word order is strictly SVO outside of music, where VSO also occurs.

Example texts

Linguifex-hosted translations

• Translated works in Cruckeny
• Cruckeny/Test Case Sentences
• Cruckeny/Corpus

Conlang Atlas of Language Structures-hosted translations

• CALS translations

Other resources

CALS