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{{Infobox language
[[Category: Languages]]
|name = Middle Valthungian
[[Category: Conlangs]]
|nativename = Grējutungiško Rasta,<br />Walðungiško  Tunga
[[Category: Artlangs]]
|pronunciation = /ˈgrei̯.juˌtuŋ.giʃ.ko  ˈrɑs.tɑ,<br />ˈwɑl.ðuŋ.ɡiʃ.ko̞ ˈtuŋ.gɑ/
[[Category: A_posteriori]]
|creator = [[User:Bpnjohnson|BenJamin P. Johnson]],<br />
[[Category: Indo-European_languages]]
<small>creator of:<br />
[[Category: Germanic_languages]]
<ul>
[[Category: East_Germanic_languages]]
<li>[[Adzaac]]</li>
[[Category: Valthungian]]
<li>[[Brooding]]</li>
 
<li>[[Dlatci]]</li>
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<li>[[Grayis]]</li>
 
<li>[[Maltcégj]]</li>
<li>[[Northeadish]]</li>
<li>[[Valthungian]]</li>
<ul>
<li>''[[Griutungi]]''</li>
<li>''[[Old Valthungian]]''</li>
<li>''[[Middle Valthungian]]''</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</small>
|created = 2010
|setting =
|familycolor = Indo-European
|fam1 = [[w:Indo-European_languages|Indo-European]]
|fam2 = [[w:Germanic_languages|Germanic]]
|fam3 = [[w:East_Germanic_languages|East Germanic]]
|fam4 = [[Griutungi]]
|fam5 = [[Old Valthungian]]
|fam6 = [[Middle Valthungian]]
|script = [[Valthungian#Alphabet_.26_Pronunciation|Valthungian Alphabet]]<br />[[w:Latin script|Latin script]] (transliteration)
|iso3 = qgt
|brcl = grey
}}
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[[Middle Valthungian]] represents a period in the development of [[Valthungian]] lasting from around 1200‒1600 a.d. marked mainly by palatalization of a great many consonants as well as some minor reduction to unstressed vowels. Though this is a range which experienced many changes, the most representative example of “Middle Valthungian” is the language as captured by the suddenly-prolific Valthungian writers at the beginning of the Renaissance, circa 1450‒1500 a.d.
[[Middle Valthungian]] represents a period in the development of [[Valthungian]] lasting from around 1200‒1600ᴀᴅ marked mainly by palatalization of a great many consonants as well as some minor reduction to unstressed vowels. Though this is a range which experienced many changes, the most representative example of “Middle Valthungian” is the language as captured by the suddenly-prolific Valthungian writers at the beginning of the Renaissance, circa 1450‒1500 a.d.


==Major Changes from Old Valthungian Middle Valthungian==
==Major Changes from Old Valthungian Middle Valthungian==
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===Vowel Tensing===
===Vowel Tensing===
ʏ → y (merges with /y/)<br>
ɪ → i<br>
ɛ → e̞, ɛː → e̞ː<br>
œ → ø̞, œː → ø̞ː<br>
ɔ → o̞, ɔː → o̞ː<br>
ʊ → u<br>
===Metathesis===
Vr → rV / _C
* Does not apply / Cw_
===Rhotacism Fail===
===Rhotacism Fail===
ʝ → ʑ (merges with [ʑ] from /z/)<br>
/ʑ/ goes on to stubbornly not become /r/.
===Elimination of Non-Word-Initial /h/===
===Elimination of Non-Word-Initial /h/===
====Deletion of Interconsonantal /h/====
====Deletion of Interconsonantal /h/====

Latest revision as of 15:51, 17 March 2022



Middle Valthungian
Sô Grêjutungisjko Rasta
Pronunciation[səʊ̯ ˈɡrəi̯juˌtuŋ.ɡiʂko̞ ˈrɑs.tə]
Created byBenJamin P. Johnson,

creator of:

curator of:

Date2018
SettingEurope, ca. 1200ᴀᴅ‒1600ᴀᴅ
Indo-European
  • Germanic
    • East Germanic
      • Middle Valthungian


Middle Valthungian represents a period in the development of Valthungian lasting from around 1200‒1600ᴀᴅ marked mainly by palatalization of a great many consonants as well as some minor reduction to unstressed vowels. Though this is a range which experienced many changes, the most representative example of “Middle Valthungian” is the language as captured by the suddenly-prolific Valthungian writers at the beginning of the Renaissance, circa 1450‒1500 a.d.

Major Changes from Old Valthungian Middle Valthungian

Defenestration of Greek Fricatives

By approximately 1250 or possibly earlier, spirantized b [β] had come to be realized as [v], and its unvoiced counterpart, f, which may have been realized as [ɸ] in Proto-Germanic, Gothic, Griutungi, and possibly Old Valthungian, became definitively realized as [f]. Meanwhile the previously spirantized g [ɣ] had reverted to its non-continuant form and merged with [ɡ]. According to a document recently discovered in an attic in Padua, shortly after these changes were complete, the now-useless Greek letters were gathered up and cast out of a high window into the Piave by an angry Bishop who had spent most of his career decrying the evils of feta.

  β v
  ɸ f
  ɣ ɡ

Vowel Tensing

ʏ → y (merges with /y/)
ɪ → i
ɛ → e̞, ɛː → e̞ː
œ → ø̞, œː → ø̞ː
ɔ → o̞, ɔː → o̞ː
ʊ → u

Metathesis

Vr → rV / _C

  • Does not apply / Cw_

Rhotacism Fail

ʝ → ʑ (merges with [ʑ] from /z/)
/ʑ/ goes on to stubbornly not become /r/.

Elimination of Non-Word-Initial /h/

Deletion of Interconsonantal /h/

Changes of /h/ to /θ/

Changes of /h/ to /f/

Compensatory Lengthening

Further Changes of /h/ to /θ/

Assimilation of /s/ in Consonant Clusters

Palatalization

Palatalization of /sk/ after Front Vowels

Change of /hj/ to /šj/

Palatalization of Non-Labial Stop Consonants before /j/

Vowel Reduction

Major Changes from Middle Valthungian to Valthungian

Vowel Reduction

Deletion of Word-Final /a/

Lowering of Unstressed Short Vowels

Shortening of Unstressed Long Vowels

Changes to Unstressed Word-Final Syllables

Un-Tensing of Front Middle Diphthongs

Raising of Middle Diphthongs

Syllabic Unpacking

Affrication and Merging of Palatals & Deletion of /j/

Deletion of /b/ and /f/ after /m/

Vocalization of /w/