Old Palatine [OLPAL]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Palatine
Old Palatine is the oldest member of the Palatine sprachbund to evolve in the Tyvera system itself. It is a bastard child of Zenithspeak and Alhadathspeak, themselves creoles of multiple different languages forged together in a pair of generation ships.
Sample of Old Palatine[view] Ĭndani yl'tsinhanhan, the'govor yl'sotomarĭha Danisce.
In the forests, the whales speak Danish.[view all texts]
In the forests, the whales speak Danish.[view all texts]
Sound samples in Old Palatine
Some sound samples of Old Palatine. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Yna'axyl ĭndani yl’quenan.
A wolf in the fable.
A wolf in the fable.
Language family relationships
Language treePalatine Sprachbund
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Old Palatine
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Old Palatine[view] About Palatine SprachbundThe Palatine sprachbund’s protolangs (the Sleeper Palatine family) was a frankenlanguage fused together as a result of 1,000 years aboard generation ships. There were three ships that would set out from the Tivera system in murky antiquity - the Zeni...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | q | ʔ | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | h | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | w | |||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||||
| Blends | kw | ks |
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɜ | |||||||
| Open | a | |||||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Palatine. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Old PalatineOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/ | Dd/d/ | DZ dz/d͡z/ | DZH dzh/d͡ʒ/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ |
| Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Ĭĭ/ɪ/ | Jj/j/ | KH kh/x/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/o/ |
| Pp/p/ | QQ qq/q/ | QU qu/kw/ | Rr/ɹ/, /r/ | Ss/s/ | SC sc/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/ð/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | TZ tz/t͡ʃ/ |
| Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ks/ | Yy/ɜ/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/ʒ/ | |||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
