Reardic creole

Reardish
Jèrmànikofrañçè
Pronunciation	[ʒɛʀ.ma.ni.ko.fʀɑ̃.sɛ]
Created by	wfosøra
Ethnicity	Reardic French
Language family	French Creole Reardish
Writing system	Latin
ConWorkShop	DCE

Reardic creole (Autonym: Jèrmànikofrañçè; Reardish: [ʒɛʀ.ma.ni.ko.fʀɑ̃.sɛ]) is a French-based creole spoken by the Reardic French community in Northern France.

Reardic creole has its origins in a Reardish population that migrated to Northern France, this population was subsumed into the local French speaking population, who's language was then influenced heavily by Reardish, this was then followed by the French population engaging in heavy trade with the Reardish of Britain, leading to the development of Reardic creole.

Reardic creole is typically written in the Latin alphabet, using the Insular script, a cursive script based on French cursive is used, it modifies several letter forms to make them closer to their Insular counterpart.

History

Main article: History of Reardic creole

Phonology

Main article: Reardic creole phonology

Stress lies on the first syllable unless a stressed prefix is added, in which case the stress stays with the root word and the prefix is given secondary stress.

Consonants

Consonant phonemes

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular
Nasal	m	n
Stop	p b	t d		k g
Fricative	f v	s z	ʃ ʒ		(χ)¹
Lateral fricative		ɬ² (ɮ)³
Approximant	ʍ w	l	j
Trill					ʀ

1. Allophone of /ʀ/
2. Allophone of /l/ in clusters with a voiceless consonant when a vowel doesn't immediately follow it (ie: ClC or Cl#) except in cases of <ll> (historically a geminated /l/)
3. Allophone of /l/ in clusters with a voiced consonant when a vowel doesn't immediately follow it (ie: ClC or Cl#)

Vowels

Oral Front Back unrounded rounded High i(ː) ⟨i⟩ y(ː) ⟨ù⟩ u(ː) ⟨u⟩ Mid e(ː) ⟨e⟩ ø(ː) ⟨ò⟩ o(ː) ⟨o⟩ Mid-low ɛ(ː) ⟨è⟩ œ(ː) ⟨œ⟩ Low a(ː) ⟨à⟩ ɑ(ː) ⟨a⟩

Nasal Front Back unrounded rounded High ĩ ⟨iñ⟩ ỹ ⟨ùñ⟩ ũ ⟨uñ⟩ Mid ɛ̃ ⟨eñ⟩ œ̃ ⟨œñ⟩ ɔ̃ ⟨oñ⟩ Low ɑ̃ ⟨añ⟩

Length is marked by doubling the vowel letter (ie: ii).

Grammar

Main article: Reardish grammar

Nouns decline for five cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, instrumental. (A sixth case, the vocative, is highly contentious.); three genders: masculine, feminine, neuter; and two numbers: singular, and plural (Reardish has a fully in tact duel declension, but it is only in pronouns and verbs).

Pronouns decline largely the same as nouns, except for having a duel in the first and second persons. The plural third person pronouns have been entirely leveled, so the masculine, feminine, and neuter third person plurals decline identically, though a formal "Archaic masculine" is retained, and has been shifting to have the usage of a formal third person plural.

Syntax

The word order, despite the language still being heavily inflectional, is strictly SOV with limited exceptions.

Other resources

• Swadesh
• Phrases
• lemmas

See also

• Reardish
• w:French language