Post Modern English [PMOE]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Post Modern English
Walco mahnz pydg Oimar!
Welcome to my page on Oimar!
Oimar is a potential future version of American English. This is a language spoken specifically in the USA, not necessarily indicative of the progression of British, Australian, Indian etc English. However, considering English is the international lingua franca it is possible that other versions of English may change in-step.
In my version of the future, heavy influences from African American Vernacular English (which also pulls the Southern American Dialect along) and Spanish, as well as moderate influence from Japanese, and the fact that technology has become an integral part of every aspect of life, drive American English through a very interesting transition over the course of a few hundred years or so. Between the sound changes, spelling changes, and syntax changes, a Modern English speaker can understand Oimar about as well as Middle English.
Notable Features:
As I [slowly but surely] fill my dictionary and add translations and lexibuilds, I will make sure to include notes about any words that did not go through the standard Oimar vowel/consonant shift.
Welcome to my page on Oimar!
Oimar is a potential future version of American English. This is a language spoken specifically in the USA, not necessarily indicative of the progression of British, Australian, Indian etc English. However, considering English is the international lingua franca it is possible that other versions of English may change in-step.
In my version of the future, heavy influences from African American Vernacular English (which also pulls the Southern American Dialect along) and Spanish, as well as moderate influence from Japanese, and the fact that technology has become an integral part of every aspect of life, drive American English through a very interesting transition over the course of a few hundred years or so. Between the sound changes, spelling changes, and syntax changes, a Modern English speaker can understand Oimar about as well as Middle English.
Notable Features:
- a vowel shift (similar to what happened between Middle English and Modern English) and associated changes in consonant pronunciation
- AAVE influence on phonology, lexicon, and grammar
- Spanish influence on phonology, with plenty of Spanish loanwords and Spanoimish neologisms
- introduction of Japanese formality, as well as some Japanoimish neologisms
- txtspk-inspired neologisms and a tendency to spell more phonetically (as far as what Oimar-speakers consider phonetic, not English or IPA), although it's still English-derivative so there is still some English weirdness
As I [slowly but surely] fill my dictionary and add translations and lexibuilds, I will make sure to include notes about any words that did not go through the standard Oimar vowel/consonant shift.
Sample of Post Modern English[view] Ynt maedo qahnto lurk maedgek bihs jee ten, surt ah fys surt ah fys.
It doesn’t matter how much crazy magic bullshit you have, a sword to the face is a sword to the face.[view all texts]
It doesn’t matter how much crazy magic bullshit you have, a sword to the face is a sword to the face.[view all texts]
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
Plosive | p [pʰ]1 | b | t [tʰ]2 | d | k [kʷ]3 [kʰ]4 | g | [ʔ]5 | |||||||||||
Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | [h]6 | ||||||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ [t͡ʃʰ]7 | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | ɹ | jʰ | w | ɰʷ |
- aspirated at the onset of a stressed syllable, allophone of /p/
- aspirated at the onset of a stressed syllable, allophone of /t/
- same sound as Modern English "qu", allophone of /k/
- aspirated at the onset of a stressed syllable, allophone of /k/
- pronunciation in "nt" when final, allophone of /t/
- pronunciation of "s" when final, allophone of /s/
- aspirated at the onset of a stressed syllable, allophone of /t͡ʃ/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
Close | i | y | u1 | |||||
Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
Mid | [ə̝]2 | |||||||
Open-mid | ɛ | ɜ | ʌ | ɔ | ||||
Near-open | æ | |||||||
Open | ɑ |
Polyphthongs | eɪ3 | aʊ | ɔɪ | äɪ4 | oʊ5 | [ɪɜ]6 |
- silent "e" is common
- reduced version of ʌ at the end of words, allophone of /ʌ/
- a silent "e" transforms æ to this
- silent "e" is common
- silent "e" is common
- pronunciation typical if not preceded by a consonant, allophone of /y/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Post Modern English. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Post Modern EnglishOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
Aa/eɪ/1, /æ/ | AH ah/ɑ/ | AU au[ɔ]2 | AW aw/ɔ/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/, [t͡ʃʰ]3 | Dd/d/, [ð]4 | DG dg/d͡ʒ/ | Ee/ɛ/ | EE ee/i/ |
Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | GU gu/ɰʷ/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/äɪ/5 | IH ih/ɪ/ | Jj/jʰ/ | Kk/k/, [kʰ]6 | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ |
Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/oʊ/7 | OI oi/ɔɪ/ | OO oo/u/8 | OW ow/aʊ/ | Pp/p/, [pʰ]9 | Qq[kʷ]10 | Rr/ɹ/ | Ss/s/, [h]11 |
SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/, [ʔ]12, [tʰ]13 | TH th/θ/ | Uu/ɜ/ | UH uh/ʌ/, [ə̝]14 | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/y/, [ɪɜ]15 | Zz/z/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- a silent "e" transforms æ to this
- alternate spelling
- aspirated at the onset of a stressed syllable
- pronunciation of d when word initial
- silent "e" is common
- aspirated at the onset of a stressed syllable
- silent "e" is common
- silent "e" is common
- aspirated at the onset of a stressed syllable
- same sound as Modern English "qu"
- pronunciation of "s" when final
- pronunciation in "nt" when final
- aspirated at the onset of a stressed syllable
- reduced version of ʌ at the end of words
- pronunciation typical if not preceded by a consonant
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