Simplified Chickasaw [CKW]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Simplified Chickasaw
Simplified Chickasaw [the name might change] is an idea of what Chickasaw might have been. Basically, it is an alternate version of Chickasaw in a science fictional future Earth.
After studying Chickasaw for a while, I've wondered a few things:
Simplified Chickasaw is my exploration of these and other questions.
After studying Chickasaw for a while, I've wondered a few things:
- How would it look if it had never become an endangered language?
- What changes could make it easier to pronounce?
- How might the phonology have changed if it had a bigger number of speakers?
- How would Chickasaw derive technical and scientific terms?
- What kind of slang or curse words might Chickasaw have developed?
- How can certain trickier aspects of Chickasaw grammar be simplified?
- What can Chickasaw tell us about other now-extinct Muskogean languages?
- Can Chickasaw's spelling system be changed to something more aesthetic and functional? What kind of writing system would work for Chickasaw that is both functional and reflective of of its rich history?
Simplified Chickasaw is my exploration of these and other questions.
Sample of Simplified Chickasaw[view] Saz̾jõkahoogja akanombo.
I kiss, but I don't tell.[view all texts]
I kiss, but I don't tell.[view all texts]
Sound samples in Simplified Chickasaw
Some sound samples of Simplified Chickasaw. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Azjenombale.
I speak English
I speak English
Language family relationships
Language treeMuskogean
⤷ Proto-Muskogean
⤷ Western Muskogean
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Chickasaw
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Simplified Chickasaw
⤷ Proto-Muskogean
⤷ Western Muskogean
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Chickasaw⤷
Simplified Chickasaw[view] About MuskogeanThe Muskogean languages are a small indigenous language family of the southeastern United States. Other than the Cherokee, all of the so-called "Five Civilized Tribes" of the Southeast spoke Muskogean languages. Modern-day Muskogean speakers are a fe...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | f | θ | s | z | ʒ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Blends | tʃ |
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i i: í | |||||||
| Near-close | ɪ ɪ́: ɪ̃ | |||||||
| Close-mid | o ó: õ | |||||||
| Mid | ə ə́: ə̃ | |||||||
| Open | ɑ ɑ́: ɑ̃ | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | oɪ | ɑo |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Simplified Chickasaw. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Simplified ChickasawOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| L̾ l̾/ɬ/ | '/ʔ/ | Aa/ɑ/ | AO ao/ɑo/ | Ã ã/ɑ̃/ | Ā ā/ɑ́:/ | Bb/b/ | C̾ c̾/tʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɪ/ | Ẽ ẽ/ə/ |
| Ē ē/ɪ̃/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Ii/i/ | Ĩ ĩ/í/ | Ī ī/ɪ́:/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ |
| Oo/o/ | OI oi/oɪ/ | Õ õ/õ/ | Ō ō/ó:/ | Pp/p/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | T̾ t̾/θ/ | Ww/w/ | Zz/z/ | Z̾ z̾/ʒ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
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