Prime Pidgin of Antarctica (PPA)
| Prime Pidgin of Antarctica (PPA) | |
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| Prime Antarctic Pidgin (PAP) | |
| Antarctic | |
| (Official language) | |
.svg) Flag of United Nations of Antarctica | |
| Created by | Caesar05 |
| Date | 2021 |
| Setting | Trinity Peninsula (de facto), Antarctic Peninsula (de jure) |
| Native to | United Nations of Antarctica, Esperanza Base |
| Ethnicity | Antarctic |
| Extinct | ∼2250 |
Pidgin
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Early form | Various 21st century languages
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Dialect | |
 Trinity Peninsula | |
Introduction
Classification
| Various 21st century languages of Antarctica |
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Linguistic history of Antarctica
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| English | 467 |
| Spanish | 248 |
| Russian | 105 |
| French | 32 |
| Korean | 30 |
| Japanese | 29 |
| Chinese | 28 |
| Italian | 23 |
| German | 18 |
| Hindi | 17 |
| Portuguese | 15 |
| Dutch | 14 |
| Norwegian | 10 |
| Polish | 10 |
| Ukrainian | 5 |
| Afrikaans | 4 |
| Xhosa | 4 |
| Zulu | 4 |
| Swedish | 4 |
| Finnish | 3 |
| Czech | 2 |
| Romanian | 2 |
| Bulgarian | 2 |
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Coronal | Dorsal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dento-Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
| Nasal | *m | *n | (*ɳ) | (*ɲ) | *ŋ | ||
| Plosive | Voiceless | *p | *t | (*ʈ) | (*c) | *k | (*ʔ) |
| Voiced | *b | *d | (*ɟ) | *g | |||
| Fricative | Voiceless | *f | *s | (*ʃ) | (*x) | *h | |
| Voiced | (*v) | (*z) | (*ʒ) | (*ɣ) | |||
| Liquid | Rhotic | (*β) | *r | (*ɻ) | (*ɾ) | ||
| Lateral | *l | (*ɭ) | |||||
Vowels and approximants
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Approximant | *j | *w | ||
| High | Tense | *i | (*ɨ) | *u |
| Lax | (*ɪ) | (*ʊ) | ||
| Mid | Tense | *e | (*ə) | *o |
| Lax | (*ɛ) | (*ɔ) | ||
| Low | *a | |||
Prosody
| Complex | Simplified | Diacritic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | ˦˥ | ˦ | á (Acute accent) |
| Mid | ˦˧˨ | (˧) | a (Without accent) |
| Low | ˨˩ | ˨ | à (Grave accent) |
Orthography
| N. | Letter | IPA | Name | Original pronunciation | Source language | N. | Letter | IPA | Name | Original pronunciation | Source language | N. | Letter | IPA | Name | Original pronunciation | Source language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | m | /m/ | em | English | 2 | i | /i/ | i | English | 3 | c | /k/ | kii | English | |||
| 4 | y | /j/ | jaɪ | English | 5 | u | /u/ | u | English | 6 | a | /a/ | a | English | |||
| 7 | p | /p/ | pii | English | 8 | w | /w/ | wii | English | 9 | n | /n/ | en | English | |||
| 10 | t | /t/ | tii | English | 11 | l | /l/ | el | English | 12 | s | /s/ | es | English | |||
| 13 | b | /b/ | bii | English | 14 | ng | /ŋ/ | eŋ | English | 15 | e | /e/ | e | English | |||
| 16 | o | /o/ | o | English | 17 | g | /g/ | gii | English | 18 | h | /h/ | heɪtʃ | English | |||
| 19 | d | /d/ | dii | English | 20 | r | /r/ | ere | Spanish | 21 | f | /f/ | efe | Spanish | |||
| 22 | ñ | /ɲ/ | eɲe | Spanish | 23 | ch | /ʃ/ | ʃe | Spanish | 24 | - | /ʔ/ | giʔon | Spanish | |||
| 25 | é | /ɛ/ | ɛ | Spanish | 26 | ó | /ɔ/ | ɔ | Spanish | 27 | z | /z/ | zeta | Spanish | |||
| 28 | ll | /ʒ/ | eʒe | Spanish | 29 | v | /v/ | ve | Spanish | 30 | р | /ɾ/ | ɛɾ | Russian | |||
| 31 | а | /ə/ | ə | Russian | 32 | х | /x/ | xa | Russian | 33 | ы | /ɨ/ | ɨ | Russian | |||
| 34 | tt | /ʈ/ | ʈe | French | 35 | ㅣ | /ɪ/ | ɪ | Korean | 36 | ガ | /ɣ/ | ɣa | Japanese | |||
| 37 | 七 | /c/ | cii | Chinese | 38 | ù | /ʊ/ | ʊ | Italian | 39 | nk | /ɳ/ | ɛɳ | German | |||
| 40 | ज | /ɟ/ | ɟə | Hindi | 41 | lh | /ɭ/ | ɛɭi | Portuguese | 42 | wh | /β/ | βee | Dutch | |||
| 43 | р' | /ɻ/ | ɛɻ | Ukrainian |
Phonotactics
These lists of sound changes are applicable in order in SCA2.