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.

Vowels

Vowels

	Front unrounded	Front rounded	Back
High	i	y	u
Mid	e	œ	o
Low	a		ɑː

• Unstressed /i,y,u,{e,a},o/ are realized as [ɪ,ʏ,ʊ,ə,ɔ].
  • [ə]-sonorant and [ə]-voiced fricative sequences are realized as syllabic consonants.

Diphthongs

iə ɪə	uə
eə	oə
ɛi	œy
ai ɑːi	au ɑːu

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