Kaimen Kēling [KKL]
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Kaimen Kēling [kaimen ke:liŋ]
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Kaimen Kēling [kaimen ke:liŋ]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Kaimen Kēling
Kaimen Kēling is an a posteriori 'what if' language from a hypothetical alternate universe in which the Proto-Germanic homeland was colonized by Uralic speakers rather than Indo-European speakers. It develops Proto-Finno-Permic (or some version of it anyway) into a language reminiscent of Proto-Germanic. My intent is to develop descendants corresponding to each major attested ancient Germanic language.
Children so far are
Giskain Kēl and 
Old Vóddan.
Grammar is in a Google doc.
Children so far are
Giskain Kēl and Old Vóddan. Grammar is in a Google doc.
Sample of Kaimen Kēling[view] Sjōgeid wastja Rosalesan þaneumans: ..., mansikkta, wabarnaþ, jud jangastta, abalamaþ jud krausti, agrinjamaþ, ... ... ..., fisklaþ jud ōrafisklaþ, ..., sōlta, ... ... ..., kjurþjakaswamta, festjarþ, humliþ, jud kanapaþ.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeUralic
⤷ Proto-Uralic
⤷ Finno-Ugric
⤷ Finno-Khantic
⤷ Finno-Permic
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Kaimen Kēling
⤷ Proto-Uralic
⤷ Finno-Ugric
⤷ Finno-Khantic
⤷ Finno-Permic
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Kaimen Kēling[view] About UralicThe Uralic languages /jʊˈrælɨk/ (sometimes called Uralian /jʊˈreɪliən/ languages) constitute a language family of some three dozen languages spoken by approximately 25 million people. The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian, ...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | f | [v]2 | θ | [ð]3 | s | [z]4 | x | [ɣ]5 | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /f/
- allophone of /θ/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /x/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||
| Mid | e̞ e̞: | o̞: | ||
| Open | a | |||
| Polyphthongs | ei | ai | (ou) | au |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kaimen Kēling. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Kaimen KēlingOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | AI ai/ai/ | AU au/au/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e̞/ | Ēē/e̞:/ | EI ei/ei/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ |
| Hh/x/ | Īī/i:/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ōō/o̞:/ | OU ou/ou/1 |
| Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Ūū/u:/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Þþ/θ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- loan words only
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
LotM - Nov 20: Kaimen Kēling
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