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== Anthropology == | == Anthropology == | ||
{{Main|Folksprak/Anthropology}} | |||
The language can easily be understood by any speaker of a Germanic language (a group numbering over 110 million native speakers with an additional 300 to 900 million speaking English which is nearly-Germanic) without much teaching. For example, a native speaker of German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Afrikaans, Yiddish or some other Germanic language, can understand a sentence like {{Rune|ᛁᛣᛣ ᚻᚪᚹ ᛋᛣᚱᛁᚹᛏ ᛖᚾ ᛞᛖ ᛒᚢᛣ}}/Ik hav skrivt en de buk with little or no thought. | The language can easily be understood by any speaker of a Germanic language (a group numbering over 110 million native speakers with an additional 300 to 900 million speaking English which is nearly-Germanic) without much teaching. For example, a native speaker of German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Afrikaans, Yiddish or some other Germanic language, can understand a sentence like {{Rune|ᛁᛣᛣ ᚻᚪᚹ ᛋᛣᚱᛁᚹᛏ ᛖᚾ ᛞᛖ ᛒᚢᛣ}}/Ik hav skrivt en de buk with little or no thought. | ||
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== Phonology == | == Phonology == | ||
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The rhotic varies across the region, and '''h''' is sometimes voiced, but neither of these pose a problem to intelligibility. Icelandic-speakers would have to learn the traditional voiced-unvoiced distinction whatever language they wanted to learn! | The rhotic varies across the region, and '''h''' is sometimes voiced, but neither of these pose a problem to intelligibility. Icelandic-speakers would have to learn the traditional voiced-unvoiced distinction whatever language they wanted to learn! | ||
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== Orthography == | == Orthography == | ||
{{Main|Folksprak/Orthography}} | |||
=== Consonants === | === Consonants === | ||
English [th] and [z] are rather late additions to the alphabet, and not part of Folksprak today. There are, in fact, many such letters which would be needed for place names around Europe. {{Rune|ᛊ}}/'''Z''', {{Rune|ᛢ}}/'''Q''', {{Rune|ᛝ}}/'''Ŋ''', and {{Rune|ᚦ}}/'''Þ''' are not productive and part of "historic" name spellings only. Swedish /ɧ/ may be written {{Rune|ᚺ}}. (Other "old" letters include {{Rune|ᛠ}}/'''Ä''', {{Rune|ᚫ}}/'''Æ''', {{Rune|ᛡ}}/'''Ï''', {{Rune|ᛥ}}/'''ST''', {{Rune|ᚸ}}/'''Ȝ''', and {{Rune|ᛤ}}/'''KK'''.) | English [th] and [z] are rather late additions to the alphabet, and not part of Folksprak today. There are, in fact, many such letters which would be needed for place names around Europe. {{Rune|ᛊ}}/'''Z''', {{Rune|ᛢ}}/'''Q''', {{Rune|ᛝ}}/'''Ŋ''', and {{Rune|ᚦ}}/'''Þ''' are not productive and part of "historic" name spellings only. Swedish /ɧ/ may be written {{Rune|ᚺ}}. (Other "old" letters include {{Rune|ᛠ}}/'''Ä''', {{Rune|ᚫ}}/'''Æ''', {{Rune|ᛡ}}/'''Ï''', {{Rune|ᛥ}}/'''ST''', {{Rune|ᚸ}}/'''Ȝ''', and {{Rune|ᛤ}}/'''KK'''.) | ||
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== | == Morphophonology == | ||
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* definite article {{C|ᛞᛖ}}/de | * definite article {{C|ᛞᛖ}}/de | ||
* indefinite article {{C|ᛖᚾ}}/en, same as 'one' (different vowel length) | * indefinite article {{C|ᛖᚾ}}/en, same as 'one' (different vowel length) | ||
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ᛗᚪᚾᚾᛋmanns ᛗᚪᚾᚾᛖᚾᛋmannens | ᛗᚪᚾᚾᛋmanns ᛗᚪᚾᚾᛖᚾᛋmannens | ||
== | == Morphosyntax == | ||
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# the Subject may not be separated from the finite verb by any other word. | # the Subject may not be separated from the finite verb by any other word. | ||
# the ordinary position for the verb in a declarative sentence is as second element and in imperatives or questions as the first element. | # the ordinary position for the verb in a declarative sentence is as second element and in imperatives or questions as the first element. | ||
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Adverb making suffix: -{{Rune|ᛚᛁᛣ}}'''lik''' (cp. English -ly). Elatives need {{Rune|[[ᛗᛖᚱ]]}}'''mer''' more and {{Rune|[[ᛗᛖᛋᛏ]]}}'''mest''' most | Adverb making suffix: -{{Rune|ᛚᛁᛣ}}'''lik''' (cp. English -ly). Elatives need {{Rune|[[ᛗᛖᚱ]]}}'''mer''' more and {{Rune|[[ᛗᛖᛋᛏ]]}}'''mest''' most | ||
== Lexicography == | |||
{{Main|Folksprak/Lexicography}} | |||
see also [[Folksprak/Swadesh]] | |||
[[Category:Folksprak]] | [[Category:Folksprak]] | ||
[[Category:Universal Languages]] | [[Category:Universal Languages]] |