Californian [CALIF]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersCalifornian is spoken by a population of around 26,000,000 in California.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Californian
Californian is a Spanish-derived language historically spoken by Latino settlers of California, and now by the majority of Californians. The language broke off from Spanish after a period of isolation followed by a large Chinese and American influx into California, bringing new grammar devices and words into Californian.
- Californian has a SVO word order but can change word order (rarely) for means of poetry, art, emphasis of a certain object, etc...
- Californian has no cases, like its parent language Spanish.
Language family relationships
Language treeItalic
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
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Latin
⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Iberian
⤷
Spanish
⤷
Californian
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
⤷
Latin⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Iberian
⤷
Spanish⤷
CalifornianPhonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | k | ʔ | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʝ | ɣ | h | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | (d͡ʒ) | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | (w) | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||
| Blends | kw |
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||||
| Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open | a a: | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Californian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| CalifornianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa a /a/ | Bb be /b/ | Cc ce /k/, /s/ | Dd de /ð/ | DH dh dhe /d͡ʒ/1 | Ee e /e/ | Ff efe /f/ | Gg ge /ɣ/ | Hh ehe /ʔ/ | Ii i /i/ | Jj jota /ʝ/ |
| Kk ke /k/2 | Ll ele /l/ | LL ll elle /j/ | Mm eme /m/ | Nn ene /n/ | Ññ eñe /ɲ/ | Oo o /o/ | Pp pe /p/ | Qq qui /k/ | Rr ere /ɾ/ | RR rr erre /r/ |
| Ss ese /s/ | SH sh she /ʃ/ | Tt te /t/ | TH th the /t͡ʃ/ | Uu u /u/ | Vv ve /b/ | Ww we /w/3 | Xx exis /h/ | Yy upis /j/ | Ỳỳ ỳ /ə/ | Zz eze /z/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||||
- loan words only
- loan words only
- loan words only
Additional NotesAcute accents are still present to indicate stress; however, the stress of a word mostly lands on the penultimate vowel, and the accent only shows up if the stress of a word has shifted or if it is simply not on the penultimate.
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Sound Changes in Californian
Sound changes in Californian
02-Apr-24 14:34
