Millennish

Millennish
Millenneš
Pronunciation	[ˈmɪlːn̩ːəʃ]
Created by	Dillon Hartwig
Date	2021
Setting	Brandenburg, Germany; Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland
Language family	Indo-European Germanic Millennish
Early form	Old Millennish

Millennish /ˈmɪlənɪʃ/ (Millennish: Millenneš [ˈmɪlːn̩ːəʃ]) is a Germanic language spoken in the Prussian historical region.

Etymology

Millennish is from Millenneš, from Old Millennish Midlendeskar, from Proto-Germanic *mid(ja)landiskaz.

Orthography

Etlish is written with the Latin script.

A a	Aa aa	Ai ai	Aai aai	Au au	Aau aau	B b	Ch ch
/a/	/ɑː/	/ai/	/ɑːi/	/au/	/ɑːu/	/b/	/x/
D d	Ď ď	E e	Ee ee	Ei ei	Eu eu	F f	H h
/d/	/ɟ/	/e/	/eə/	/ɛi/	/œy/	/f/	/h/
I i	Ie ie	J j	K k	L l	Ľ ľ	M m	N n
/i/	/iə/	/j/	/k/	/l/	/ʎ/	/m/	/n/
Ň ň	O o	Oe oe	Ö ö	P p	R r	S s	Ś ś
/ɲ/	/o/	/oə/	/œ/	/p/	/r/	/s/	/ɕ/
Š š	T t	Ť ť	U u	Ue ue	Ü ü	V v	W w
/ʃ/	/t/	/c/	/u/	/uə/	/y/	/v/	/w/
Y y	Z z	Ź ź	Ž ž
/ɪə/	/z/	/ʑ/	/ʒ/

Phonology

Consonants

Consonants

	Labial		Alveolar		Palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasal	m		n		ɲ
Stop	p	b	t	d	c	ɟ	k
Fricative	f	v	s	z	ʃ ɕ	ʒ ʑ	x		h
Approximant	w		l		j ʎ
Trill			r

• /x/ is in free variation with [χ].
• /r/ is in free variation with [ʁ].
• /h/ is realized as [ɦ] intervocalically.
• /l/ is realized as [ɫ] in coda.

Prosody

Stress is variable but predominantly initial.

Phonotactics

Millennish maximal syllables are CCCVCCC; all CCC clusters contain /s/

Syntax

Constituent order

Millennish word order is predominantly SVO, but is flexible in dialects that retain case marking.

Example texts

Linguifex-hosted translations

• Translated works in Millennish
• Millennish/Test Case Sentences
• Millennish/Corpus

Conlang Atlas of Language Structures-hosted translations

• CALS translations

Other resources

CALS