Gaulish [GAUL]
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[Deactivated User] on 25 February 2024
Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Gaulish
ΓΑΛΛΙΚΕ - Gallice - 𝐆𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐄
This language is an attempt to imagine Gaulish if it had survived romanization.
Gallice :
- Seven nouns cases.
- Three grammatical gender (masculine, feminine, neutral).
- Five tenses (present, future, perfect and imperfect) + a false past.
- Five moods (indicative, subjunctive, optative, imperative and progressive).
- Active and passive voices.
- SVO order
- Two alphabet, Latin and Greek (may also use Lepontic but rarely)
(What is marked in italic are things that I have added in addition to current knowledge about Gaulish)
Project timeline :
Here's all the website I used to find the existing vocabulary :
This language is an attempt to imagine Gaulish if it had survived romanization.
Gallice :
- Seven nouns cases.
- Three grammatical gender (masculine, feminine, neutral).
- Five tenses (present, future, perfect and imperfect) + a false past.
- Five moods (indicative, subjunctive, optative, imperative and progressive).
- Active and passive voices.
- SVO order
- Two alphabet, Latin and Greek (may also use Lepontic but rarely)
(What is marked in italic are things that I have added in addition to current knowledge about Gaulish)
Project timeline :
- Create flag - done - 25/02/24
- Create phonology - done - 25/02/24
- Create orthography - done - 25/02/24
- Add the words already known in the Gaulish language. - in progress
- Create basic grammar tables, and make the rules. - not done yet
- Add at least 200 more words based on the roots from which Gaulish derived its vocabulary. - not done yet
- Create grammar tables, and make the rules. - not done yet
- More vocab - not done yet
- More grammar - not done yet
- Complete the dictionary - not done yet
- Complete the grammar - not done yet
- Translaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate - not done yet
Here's all the website I used to find the existing vocabulary :
Sample of GaulishCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
[view] About CelticThe Celtic languages (usually pronounced /ˈkɛltɪk/ but sometimes /ˈsɛltɪk/) are descended from Proto-Celtic, or "Common Celtic"; a branch of the greater Indo-European language family. The term "Celtic" was first used to describe this language group b...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | ʃ | x | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open | a | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Gaulish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 GaulishOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Gg/g/ | Ii/j/, /i/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ |
| Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/, /w/ | Xx/x/, /ʃ/ | Ff/f/ | Qq[k] | Ꟈꟈ/t͡s/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
Additional NotesFf /f/ - Can also be noted u at the beginning of a word.
Qq /k/ - Appears very little. Is often followed by a u to make the /kw/ sound.
Qq /k/ - Appears very little. Is often followed by a u to make the /kw/ sound.
