Pacific Northwest Latin [PNWL]
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Language type
Mixed
Place & SpeakersPacific Northwest Latin is spoken by a population of 1 in the Pacific Northwestern United States.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Pacific Northwest Latin
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A constructed language inspired by and developed for the large and diverse Pacific Northwest community by a lifelong Pacific Northwesterner- but of course, anyone from anywhere at all is welcome (and encouraged) to learn and use the language freely!
The language derives mainly from both the Latin and Germanic language families- particularly French, Spanish, English and German- with the occasional word or term borrowed from another language that’s commonly spoken across the Pacific Northwest, such as Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Mandarin, Ukrainian, and Russian.
A constructed language inspired by and developed for the large and diverse Pacific Northwest community by a lifelong Pacific Northwesterner- but of course, anyone from anywhere at all is welcome (and encouraged) to learn and use the language freely!
The language derives mainly from both the Latin and Germanic language families- particularly French, Spanish, English and German- with the occasional word or term borrowed from another language that’s commonly spoken across the Pacific Northwest, such as Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Mandarin, Ukrainian, and Russian.
Sample of Pacific Northwest Latin[view] Fogal (Formal): / Kęs ę du dęsas? / / Čazę (Casual): / Kędęsas?/Kęs (ę/du) dęsas?
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Language family relationships
Language treeItalic
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
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Latin
⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Latin-Germanic
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Pacific Northwest Latin
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
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Latin⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Latin-Germanic
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Pacific Northwest LatinPhonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʒ | x | h | |||||
| Affricate | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||
| Blends | swo | swɑ | swə | sjiə | sjiɑ | jo | jeə | je | swi | sjie |
| sjiɛə | swe | ju | sjio | sweə | sjiu | jɑ |
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open | ɑ | |||||
| Polyphthongs | ɛə | ɑi |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Pacific Northwest Latin. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Pacific Northwest LatinOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/ɑ/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/ | Çç/s/ | Čč/d͡ʒ/ | Dd/d/ | Ęę/e/ | Ėė/ɛə/ | Œœ/ə/ | Ff/f/ |
| Gg/x/ | Hh/h/ | Įį/i/ | Jj/ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ńń/ŋ/ | Oo/o/ |
| Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Xx/x/ | Zz/z/ | ÁĮ áį/ɑi/ | ÇĮÀ çįà/sjiɑ/ |
| ÇĮÈ çįè/sjie/ | ÇĮĖ çįė/sjiɛə/ | ÇĮÒ çįò/sjio/ | ÇĮÙ çįù/sjiu/ | ÇÍŒ çíœ/sjiə/ | ÇÚÀ çúà/swɑ/ | ÇÚÈ çúè/swe/ | ÇÚĖ çúė/sweə/ | ÇÚĮ çúį/swi/ | ÇÚÒ çúò/swo/ |
| ÇÚŒ çúœ/swə/ | GG gg/g/ | ĮÀ įà/jɑ/ | ĮĖ įė/jeə/ | ĮÈ įè/je/ | ĮÒ įò/jo/ | ĮÙ įù/ju/ | |||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
