Proto-Grineer [PGRNR]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Proto-Grineer
A fan protolang I'm working on. DISCLAIMER: Warframe and all associated concepts are copyright Digital Extremes. No infringement intended, this is just a goddamn weird fan project from the person responsible for most of the content on the Grineer Language/Speech page on the Warframe wiki.
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Hailing from the ridiculous space ninja game Warframe, the Grineer are a clone culture descended from clone slaves of the Orokin Empire. Throughout their entire history, there have been no Grineer children, only adults that were educated and indoctrinated before they ever set foot outside their cloning tube.
This protolang is intended to be an early stage in Grineer linguistic development: the first stages of adapting a 100% work-focused vocabulary that the Orokin selected for workers in various manual labor settings, which Grineer were expected to listen to, not speak. This vocabulary underwent initial sound mutation as the Grineer began to use the language amongst themselves, followed by a period of early word formation and vocabulary influx from overhearing conversations between their overseers.
The plan for this protolang is to transition it into a full Grineer conlang, codified some time after the Grineer rebellions against the Orokin and their re-subjugation by the Twin Queens. Grineer history is a tragic mess, full of everybody being terrible to everybody else. But hey! I'm having fun.
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Hailing from the ridiculous space ninja game Warframe, the Grineer are a clone culture descended from clone slaves of the Orokin Empire. Throughout their entire history, there have been no Grineer children, only adults that were educated and indoctrinated before they ever set foot outside their cloning tube.
This protolang is intended to be an early stage in Grineer linguistic development: the first stages of adapting a 100% work-focused vocabulary that the Orokin selected for workers in various manual labor settings, which Grineer were expected to listen to, not speak. This vocabulary underwent initial sound mutation as the Grineer began to use the language amongst themselves, followed by a period of early word formation and vocabulary influx from overhearing conversations between their overseers.
The plan for this protolang is to transition it into a full Grineer conlang, codified some time after the Grineer rebellions against the Orokin and their re-subjugation by the Twin Queens. Grineer history is a tragic mess, full of everybody being terrible to everybody else. But hey! I'm having fun.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n nʲ | ŋ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʲ | b | t tʲ | d | k kʲ | g gʲ | ʔ | |||||||
| Fricative | f fʲ | s sʲ | h | |||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | [ɹ]1 | [j]2 | w | |||||||||||
| Trill | [r]3 | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
- allophone of /ɾ/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /ɾ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]1 | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||
| Open-mid | ʌ | |||||||
| Open | a | [ä]2 | ||||||
| Polyphthongs | eʌ | aou | ea | oʌ | au | ae | ou |
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /a/
Syllable StructureMonosyllabic: (C1)(y)V1(V2)(C2), coda restricted to n,m,s.
Polysyllabic words avoid clusters and illegal consonants or dipthongs by:
1. h,f -> ' or *
2. C2 -> *
3. V1(V2) -> V1
4. V1.V1 -> V1.CV1; applied after vowel harmonization (see below). if V1 = high, C = y; if V1 = neutral, C = l; if V1 = low, C = w.
Polysyllabic words avoid clusters and illegal consonants or dipthongs by:
1. h,f -> ' or *
2. C2 -> *
3. V1(V2) -> V1
4. V1.V1 -> V1.CV1; applied after vowel harmonization (see below). if V1 = high, C = y; if V1 = neutral, C = l; if V1 = low, C = w.
Stress information2 syllables = final stress.
3+ syllables = last diphthong or non-neutral ultimate, otherwise non-neutral penultimate, then work back from antepenultimate. If all vowels are neutral, use ultimate.
3+ syllables = last diphthong or non-neutral ultimate, otherwise non-neutral penultimate, then work back from antepenultimate. If all vowels are neutral, use ultimate.
OtherVowel harmony between high (i,e), neutral (u,a), and low (ú,o). Stressed syllable pulls other vowels one step toward harmony, keeping to valid dipthong rules. (ex. ede + bolo -> adabolo) Presence of w in a compound word pulls all vowels into low/neutral.
Reduplication appears in two forms: intensification and pluralization. Pluralization duplicates an entire word of two syllables or less. In longer words, only the first two syllables are reduplicated. Intensification reduplicates the first syllable only. Reduplications are subject to the polysyllabic rules listed above, and then experience an extra round of vowel harmony, shifting neutral vowels into high or low, UNLESS this would cause a shift in syllable stress. (ex. ada + adabolo -> adawadabolo-> odowadabolo)
Reduplication appears in two forms: intensification and pluralization. Pluralization duplicates an entire word of two syllables or less. In longer words, only the first two syllables are reduplicated. Intensification reduplicates the first syllable only. Reduplications are subject to the polysyllabic rules listed above, and then experience an extra round of vowel harmony, shifting neutral vowels into high or low, UNLESS this would cause a shift in syllable stress. (ex. ada + adabolo -> adawadabolo-> odowadabolo)
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Proto-Grineer. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Proto-GrineerOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | Aa/a/ | AE ae/ae/ | AÚ aú/au/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | EU eu/eʌ/ | Ff/f/ |
| Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/o/ |
| OU ou/oʌ/ | OÚ oú/ou/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/ʌ/ | Úú/u/ | Ww/w/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
