Galatian
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Galatian | |
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Τολιστεκά | |
Created by | Frederic Bayer (talk) |
Setting | Alternate history |
Native to | Galatia, Turkey, Greece, Georgia, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt |
Native speakers | 3,400,000 (2016) |
Indo-European
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Official status | |
Official language in | Galatia |
Recognised minority language in | Greece, Georgia, Syria |
The Galatian language is a Celtic language spoken mainly in the Galatian Republic, with significant minority communities in Turkey, Greece, Georgia, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt.
Introduction
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
Nasal mutation
Unmutated | Mutated |
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π | β |
τ | δ |
κ | γ |
β | μ |
δ | ν |
γ | γ̌ |
Vowels
Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | ||
Close |
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Near-close | ||||||
Close-mid | ||||||
Mid | ||||||
Open-mid | ||||||
Near-open | ||||||
Open |
In addition to these vowel qualities, Galatian has a length distinction and a historical aspiration distinction (now only retained epenthetically or in conservative dialects, but still consistently written in the orthography). Orthographic correspondence:
Phoneme | Grapheme |
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i, ɪ | ι |
iː | ί |
y, ʏ | υ |
yː | ύ |
u | ου |
uː | ού |
e, ɛ | ε, αι |
eː | η, |
ɛː | έ, αί |
o, ɔ | ο |
oː | ω |
a | α |
aː | ά |
Vowel harmony
Valmoric has limited vowel harmony for bound morphemes: Morphemes subject to harmony which contain an ι, ε, or η will change this to an υ, ο, or ω respectively if the adjacent syllable contains an υ, ου, ο, or ω. Such harmonised vowels are marked with the circumflex: υ̂, ô, ω̂.