Old Caembalan [OCMB]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersOld Caembalan is spoken by a population of 2,500 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Caembalan
A language I started making for a friend as a precursor to the current Common in their DnD setting. It was meant to be somewhat understandable to English, so it takes its vocabulary primarily from modern, middle, and old English, as well as a mishmash of Germanic ones. Its original use got scrapped pretty quickly, but I'm gonna try to revive it because I have no active a posteriori languages rn
In-universe, it's around 600 years old, and the only remaining speakers are scholars immortals.
its orthography is absolutely not natural, but that's okay, since it's for the aesthetic
In-universe, it's around 600 years old, and the only remaining speakers are scholars immortals.
its orthography is absolutely not natural, but that's okay, since it's for the aesthetic
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t1 | d2 | k | g3 | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v4 | θ | ð | s | h | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | w | |||||||||||||
- pronounced as v between vowels
- pronounced as v between vowels
- unvoiced before t or s unless preceded by another g
- non-distinct
| Vowels | Front | Near- back | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Near-close | ʊ | |||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ʌ | ||||
| Open | ɑ | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Caembalan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Old CaembalanOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Ää/ɛ/ | Aa/ɑ/ | Åå/o/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/1 | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/2 | Hh/h/ | Jj/j/ |
| Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Öö/u/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɹ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/3 |
| Uu/ʌ/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/i/ | Ææ/e/ | Ðð/ð/ | Øø/ʊ/ | Þþ/θ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
- pronounced as v between vowels
- unvoiced before t or s unless preceded by another g
- pronounced as v between vowels
