Keldish [LA2]
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Keldish
Keldisk [keldisk]*
KeldishKeldisk [keldisk]*
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
Sample of Keldish[view] Beþ knehtas betist freond hes múdor.
A boy's best friend is his mother.[view all texts]
A boy's best friend is his mother.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
[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...
[edit] [view] (to be added) (North Dialect)This is the main dialect of Keldish. It developed straight out of Proto-West Germanic. It is not heavily influenced by the other dialects of Kelish
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ1 | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | [ɸ]2 | f | v3 | θ | ð4 | s | z | ʃ5 | [x]6 | ɣ | h | |||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ7 | j8 | ʍ | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
| Blends | jɑ |
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /f/
- allophone of /f/
- allophone of /θ/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /r/
- allophone of /g/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||||||
| Near-close | ʊ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e e: | o: | ||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||
| Open | ɑ ɑ: | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | ɑi | eʊ | ei | ɑʊ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Keldish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 KeldishOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Áá/ɑ:/ | Aa/ə/, /ɑ/ | AI ai/ɑi/ | AU au/ɑʊ/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡s/ | Dd/d/ | Éé/e:/ | Ee/e/, /ɛ/ | EI ei/ei/ | EU eu/eʊ/ |
| Ff/f/, /v/, [ɸ] | Gg/g/, /j/, /ɣ/ | Hh/h/, [x] | HW hw/ʍ/ | Íí/i:/ | Ii/i/ | IA ia/jɑ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, /n/, /ŋ/ |
| Oo/ɔ/ | Óó/o:/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɹ/, /r/ | Ss/s/, /ʃ/, /z/ | Tt/t/ | Úú/u:/ | Uu/u/, /ʊ/ | Ww/w/ | Þþ/θ/, /ð/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
