Bridgish [NDS]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Bridgish
Nudush ameakan la feam gepognad hukt ba ameaka. Ax shus toa nudush eglish pa doych, pa doshnat ameakant kin huk nat ba eglen pa doychlant.
American Bridgish is the language of most causeway trolls in America. It stems from (lit. splashes off/out of) British and German Bridgish, and American speakers most often understand trolls from Britain and Germany.
Language things:
American Bridgish is the language of most causeway trolls in America. It stems from (lit. splashes off/out of) British and German Bridgish, and American speakers most often understand trolls from Britain and Germany.
Language things:
- Lots of vowels in hiatus ([a'i] contrasting with ['aj]).
- No case marking.
- No distinction between locative (at) and allative (to) senses of location-related adpositions.
- Very ergativity.
- One or two lexically-headed auxiliary verbs.
- Slightly head-first word order.
Sample of Bridgish[view] Ay ugawda zhomi-ki dheyshko-i ushe.
The girl who brought fish left.[view all texts]
The girl who brought fish left.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
[view] About BridgicOne of a number of Trollish language families, Bridgic languages are mainly spoken by causeway trolls in Europe and North America.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | |||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]1 | [ʊ]2 | ||||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||||
| Near-open | [ɐ]3 | |||||||||
| Open | a | |||||||||
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /a/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Bridgish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 BridgishOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/, [ɐ] | Bb/b/ | BH bh/ɓ/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | DH dh/ɗ/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ |
| Ii/i/, [ɪ] | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Ss/s/ |
| SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/, [ʊ] | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/ʒ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
