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= General | ==General information== | ||
'''Brytho-Hellenic''', Brythohellenic or simply '''Neohellenic''' (the native name is ''Elynig'') is a language that is spoken nowadays in a different timeline in a country that corresponds almost exactly to our England. | '''Brytho-Hellenic''', Brythohellenic or simply '''Neohellenic''' (the native name is ''Elynig'') is a language that is spoken nowadays in a different timeline in a country that corresponds almost exactly to our England. | ||
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In 381 b.C. ''Conon the Athenian'' and his Greeks reach our '''Scilly Islands''': they have chosen to sail northward, because they had heard about legends that spoke about a fertile and grassy island in the North. It is the beginning of the ''New Greece'' or '''Elas to Kaen''' (IPA ['ɛlas 'tɔ 'kai̯n]). | In 381 b.C. ''Conon the Athenian'' and his Greeks reach our '''Scilly Islands''': they have chosen to sail northward, because they had heard about legends that spoke about a fertile and grassy island in the North. It is the beginning of the ''New Greece'' or '''Elas to Kaen''' (IPA ['ɛlas 'tɔ 'kai̯n]). | ||
= Phonology = | ==Phonology== | ||
== Alphabet == | === Alphabet=== | ||
After the defeat against the Persians almost the entire Greek people fled towards Roman territory: Rome triplicated its population and was greekized. During their living together Greeks and Romans used mainly the '''Greek language''' to communicate, whereas the ''Latin language'' became a secondary and socially lower language, spoken mainly by common people. Nevertheless - almost incomprehensibly - the Greeks adopted the '''Latin alphabet''', maybe trying to be understood even by the lower social classes. | After the defeat against the Persians almost the entire Greek people fled towards Roman territory: Rome triplicated its population and was greekized. During their living together Greeks and Romans used mainly the '''Greek language''' to communicate, whereas the ''Latin language'' became a secondary and socially lower language, spoken mainly by common people. Nevertheless - almost incomprehensibly - the Greeks adopted the '''Latin alphabet''', maybe trying to be understood even by the lower social classes. | ||
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A circumflex accent over the ''y'' indicates that it is read as [i] even if it is in a position where it would be read as [ǝ], ex.: ''ŷthias'', "fish (pl.)" (IPA ['iθjas]). | A circumflex accent over the ''y'' indicates that it is read as [i] even if it is in a position where it would be read as [ǝ], ex.: ''ŷthias'', "fish (pl.)" (IPA ['iθjas]). | ||
== | ===Consonantal phonemes=== | ||
Brythohellenic has the following consonantic phonemes: | Brythohellenic has the following consonantic phonemes: | ||