Greenlandic Norse [GDK]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersGreenlandic Norse is spoken in Greenland.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Greenlandic Norse
Greenlandic Norse is a semi-natural western North Germanic language based on the Greenlandic dialect of Old Norse. In this timeline it came to existence because the settlements in Greenland didn't crumble, but stayed resilient.
Sample of Greenlandic NorseCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
Language treeGermanic
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ North Germanic
⤷ Old Norse
⤷ West Norse
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Greenlandic Norse
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ North Germanic
⤷ Old Norse
⤷ West Norse
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Greenlandic Norse[view] About GermanicThe Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of approximately 500 million people mainly in North America, Oceania, Western and Northern Europe. Proto-Germanic , which was spoken in approxima...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n̥ | n | [ŋ]1 | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | [ʈ]2 | k | g | |||||||
| Fricative | [β]3 | f | v | s | z | ç | ʝ | h | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | l̥ | l | ||||||||||||
| Trill | r̥ | r | ||||||||||||
- Replaces /n/ before /g/, allophone of /n/
- Replaced /rd/ and /rt/, allophone of /t/
- If initial before /a/, allophone of /f/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | y | u | |||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʏ | ||||||
| Close-mid | e | ø | o | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ɔ | |||||
| Open | ä ä: | |||||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Greenlandic Norse. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Greenlandic NorseOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/ä/ | Áá/ä:/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Éé/e/ | Ff/f/, [β]1 | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/ɪ/ | Íí/i/ |
| Jj/ʝ/ | HJ hj/ç/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | HL hl/l̥/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | HN hn/n̥/ | NG ng[ŋ]2 | Oo/o/ | Ǫǫ/ɔ/ |
| Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | HR hr/r̥/ | Ss/s/, /z/ | Tt/t/, [ʈ]3 | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Yy/ʏ/, /y/ | Œœ/œ/ | Öö/ø/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||||
- If initial before /a/.
- Replaces /n/ before /g/.
- Replaced /rd/ and /rt/.
