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'''Wèg Dar Ri'Rìk''' is a completely non-official fan imagining of the language spoken by the race of giants found "beyond the wall" in the fantasy realm described by George R. R. Martin in his series of novels, A Song of Ice and Fire. In the series of novels, there exists a language referred to as "the Old Tongue", which is implied to be the language spoken by the First Men - the human inhabitants of Westeros who were later largely subsumed culturally into the invading Andals. | |||
The Giants' speciolect is an isolating, analytic language, characterised by a monosyllabic words (excepting sound changes in the system of reduplication) with four tones on vowels and extensive use of particles to show parts of speech. | |||
==General information== | ==General information== | ||
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''llàk dóh'' → bear, ''dóh llàk'' → large bear (although ''wèg llàk dóh'' (mighty bear) is more often used in this situation, as a sign of cultural respect). | ''llàk dóh'' → bear, ''dóh llàk'' → large bear (although ''wèg llàk dóh'' (mighty bear) is more often used in this situation, as a sign of cultural respect). | ||
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The particle ''nar'' is used to nominalise certain adjectives or verbs. | The particle ''nar'' is used to nominalise certain adjectives or verbs. | ||
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| perfective aspect marker | | perfective aspect marker | ||
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| ''sám'' | |||
| Question word which/what | |||
| '''''Sám''' nar'' = '''Which''' one? (who?) | |||
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| ''sīk'' | | ''sīk'' | ||
| Syntactic marker for questions | | Syntactic marker for polar questions | ||
| '''''Sīk''' nàg gràm dhèr skàg thāk?'' = '''Is''' the squirrel behind the rock?<br>'''''Sīk''' ngak nar tùn wèg dar ri'rìk?'' = '''Do''' you know how to speak the Giants' Speech? | | '''''Sīk''' nàg gràm dhèr skàg thāk?'' = '''Is''' the squirrel behind the rock?<br>'''''Sīk''' ngak nar tùn wèg dar ri'rìk?'' = '''Do''' you know how to speak the Giants' Speech? | ||
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==Swadesh list== | ==Swadesh list== | ||
{{Swadesh | {{Swadesh | ||
|language= | |language= Giants' Speech | ||
|nativename= | |nativename= Wèg Dar Ri'Rìk | ||
|I= | |I=ngam nar | ||
|you (singular)= | |you (singular)= ngak nar | ||
|he= | |he= ngak nar | ||
|we= | |we= nga'ngàm nar | ||
|you (plural)= | |you (plural)= nga'ngàk nar | ||
|they= | |they= nga'ngàk nar | ||
|this= | |this= ngam | ||
|that= | |that= ngak | ||
|here= | |here= ngam dhèr | ||
|there= | |there= ngak dhèr | ||
|who= | |who= sám nar | ||
|what= | |what= sám ni | ||
|where= | |where=sám dhèr | ||
|when= | |when= | ||
|how= | |how= | ||
|not= | |not= | ||
|all= | |all= | ||
|many= | |many= dòk | ||
|some= | |some= | ||
|few= | |few= dhgàh | ||
|other= | |other= | ||
|one= | |one= | ||
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|four= | |four= | ||
|five= | |five= | ||
|big= | |big= dóh | ||
|long= | |long= | ||
|wide= | |wide= | ||
|thick= | |thick= | ||
|heavy= | |heavy= | ||
|small= | |small= gràm | ||
|short= | |short= | ||
|narrow= | |narrow= | ||
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|woman= | |woman= | ||
|man (adult male)= | |man (adult male)= | ||
|Man (human being)= | |Man (human being)= wōh | ||
|child= | |child= | ||
|wife= | |wife= | ||
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[[Category:Wèg Dar Ri'Rìk]] | [[Category:Wèg Dar Ri'Rìk]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Languages]] | ||
[[Category:Languages]] | [[Category:Languages]] | ||
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