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'''Filch''' ({{ash|fylsch}}, equivalent to "folk" + "-ish") is an artistic auxiliary language in the Germanic family. | '''Filch''' ({{ash|fylsch}}, equivalent to "folk" + "-ish") is an artistic auxiliary language in the Germanic family. | ||
It is not actually intended as an auxiliary language but designed for fun with the intention of the highest possible intelligibility to modern Germanic speakers while still seeming like a naturalistic descendant of Proto-Germanic that evolved organically. Ease of learning and producing Filch fluently is secondary. | It is not actually intended as an auxiliary language but designed for fun with the intention of the highest possible intelligibility to modern Germanic speakers while still seeming like a naturalistic descendant of Proto-Germanic that evolved organically. Ease of learning and producing Filch fluently is secondary. Vocabulary and phrases are only added if they have widespread counterparts, so Filch does not necessarily have a one-word translation of everything, and descriptive language to get around this is expected. | ||
For the English name compare "French" from Old English ''Frenċisċ'' with the same umlaut and palatalisation. | For the English name compare "French" from Old English ''Frenċisċ'' with the same umlaut and palatalisation. | ||