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!rounded | !rounded | ||
|- | |- | ||
!Close | |||
|style="border-right:0;" align="center" |i | |style="border-right:0;" align="center" |i | ||
|style="border-left:0;" align="center" |iː | |style="border-left:0;" align="center" |iː | ||
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|style="border-left:0;" align="center" |uː | |style="border-left:0;" align="center" |uː | ||
|- | |- | ||
!Close-mid | |||
| colspan="2" align="center" |(e) | | colspan="2" align="center" |(e) | ||
|align="center" |(ø) | |align="center" |(ø) | ||
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|style="border-left:0;" align="center" |oː | |style="border-left:0;" align="center" |oː | ||
|- | |- | ||
!Open-mid | |||
|style="border-right:0;" align="center" |ɛ | |style="border-right:0;" align="center" |ɛ | ||
|style="border-left:0;" align="center" |ɛː | |style="border-left:0;" align="center" |ɛː | ||
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| colspan="2" | | | colspan="2" | | ||
|- | |- | ||
!Open | |||
|style="border-right:0;" align="center" |æ | |style="border-right:0;" align="center" |æ | ||
|style="border-left:0;" align="center" |æː | |style="border-left:0;" align="center" |æː | ||
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* Only /e, u, y, ɑ/ appeared in unstressed syllables: /i, ɛ/ reduced to /e/ and /o/ reduced to /ɑ/. | * Only /e, u, y, ɑ/ appeared in unstressed syllables: /i, ɛ/ reduced to /e/ and /o/ reduced to /ɑ/. | ||
* /y, e, ø, æ/ only appear as short vowels during rounding. | * /y, e, ø, æ/ only appear as short vowels during rounding. | ||
* /e, ɑ/ were realized as /ɛu, ɑu/ in unstressed syllables before /w/. | |||
=== Orthography === | {| class="wikitable" | ||
Ƀ ƀ | |+ Old Meckelnish diphthongs | ||
! | |||
!Front | |||
!Back | |||
|- | |||
!Loose | |||
| style="border-right:0;" align="center" | | |||
| style="border-right:0;" align="center" | | |||
|- | |||
!Tight | |||
| style="border-right:0;" align="center" |ɛu | |||
|ɑu | |||
|} | |||
'''Notes:''' | |||
===Orthography=== | |||
Ƀ ƀ Ð ð Æ æ Ƿ ƿ Ȝ ȝ digraphs for /x/? umlauts | |||
[[Category:Meckelnburgh]] | [[Category:Meckelnburgh]] | ||
[[Category:Languages]] | [[Category:Languages]] | ||
Revision as of 06:40, 15 July 2023
The Meckelnish language is an official language of the Kingdom of Meckelnburgh, where it is spoken as a second language to Istvanistani by a majority of the population. Mekelnish is a Crando-Batavian language, most closely related to Alexandrian and Martino, two other minority languages in Meckelnburgh.
Old Meckelnish
Phonology
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | (ŋ) | |||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | (g) | ||
| Fricative (sibilant) |
f | (v) | θ | (ð) | (ç / ç̠) | (x) | ɣ | h |
| s | (z) | |||||||
| Approximant | l | j | w | |||||
| Rhotic | ɾ | |||||||
Notes:
- /f, θ, s/ were realized as /v, ð, z/ between vowels.
- /ɣ/ was realized as /g/ after /n/.
- /n/ was realized as /ŋ/ before /g, k/.
- /ɣ, h/ were realized as /x/ between vowels and in word-final positions.
- /ɣ, h/ were realized as /ç/ before front-closed vowels and /ç̠/ before front-open vowels.
| Front | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | ||||
| Close | i | iː | (y) | u | uː |
| Close-mid | (e) | (ø) | o | oː | |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɛː | |||
| Open | æ | æː | ɑ | ɑː | |
Notes:
- /u, o, ɑ/ were rounded as /y, ø, æ/ before /i, j/ and /ɛ/ was realized as /e/.
- Only /e, u, y, ɑ/ appeared in unstressed syllables: /i, ɛ/ reduced to /e/ and /o/ reduced to /ɑ/.
- /y, e, ø, æ/ only appear as short vowels during rounding.
- /e, ɑ/ were realized as /ɛu, ɑu/ in unstressed syllables before /w/.
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Loose | ||
| Tight | ɛu | ɑu |
Notes:
Orthography
Ƀ ƀ Ð ð Æ æ Ƿ ƿ Ȝ ȝ digraphs for /x/? umlauts
