Gothish [ZIUD]
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Species
Human/humanoid
About Gothish
When the Germanic people arrived in the Iberian Peninsula between AD 409 and AD 711, they brought with them their language, mainly Suebi, Visigoths and Buri. The language was spread by settlers, and merchants, who built Germanic cities mostly near the settlements of previous Celtic and Roman civilizations established long before the Germanic arrivals. For that reason, the language has kept a relevant substratum of Roman and Celtic culture, part of the Hispano-Celtic group of ancient languages.
The occupiers, who originally spoke Germanic languages, quickly developed dialects and over the next 300 years totally integrated into the local populations. Some Vulgar Latin words from that period are part of the Gothish lexicon. With the Umayyad conquest beginning in 711, Arabic became the administrative and common language in the conquered regions, but most of the remaining Christian population continued to speak a form of Romance called Mozarabic which introduced a few hundred words from Arabic as well as Persian, Turkish, and Berber. Like English, Gothish has adopted a significant number of loanwords from Greek, mainly in technical, scientific terminology and by lithurgical texts. These borrowings occurred via Latin, and later during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Gothish evolved from the medieval language, known today by linguists as Ibero-Gothic or Old Gothish, of the northwestern medieval Kingdom Gothorum of which the County of Portugal and León was part.
In the first part of the Ibero-Gothic period (from the 12th to the 14th century), the language was increasingly used for documents and other written forms being influenced by romance languages constantly, since the language of preference for lyric poetry in Christian Hispania was Galician-Portuguese, much as Occitan was the language of the poetry of the troubadours. The end of the Old Gothic period was marked by the increasing in literature.
The occupiers, who originally spoke Germanic languages, quickly developed dialects and over the next 300 years totally integrated into the local populations. Some Vulgar Latin words from that period are part of the Gothish lexicon. With the Umayyad conquest beginning in 711, Arabic became the administrative and common language in the conquered regions, but most of the remaining Christian population continued to speak a form of Romance called Mozarabic which introduced a few hundred words from Arabic as well as Persian, Turkish, and Berber. Like English, Gothish has adopted a significant number of loanwords from Greek, mainly in technical, scientific terminology and by lithurgical texts. These borrowings occurred via Latin, and later during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Gothish evolved from the medieval language, known today by linguists as Ibero-Gothic or Old Gothish, of the northwestern medieval Kingdom Gothorum of which the County of Portugal and León was part.
In the first part of the Ibero-Gothic period (from the 12th to the 14th century), the language was increasingly used for documents and other written forms being influenced by romance languages constantly, since the language of preference for lyric poetry in Christian Hispania was Galician-Portuguese, much as Occitan was the language of the poetry of the troubadours. The end of the Old Gothic period was marked by the increasing in literature.
Sample of Gothish[view] Dries Ringes fer ze Olbes Ziudens under se himene, / Siben fer ze Dweirges Froujes in zie steinrohsens, / Niun fer Mortale Mans kondimnedes du dweze, / Eins fer se Oskure Frouje en is oskure stoul. / In se Mordor Land whor ze Skades ligen. / Eins Ringe du reghelen zons oll, Eins Ringe du finzen zons, / Eins Ringe du bringen at zeim oll jeh in...[view all texts]
Sound samples in Gothish
Some sound samples of Gothish. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Niezige werds kunen plighen ziene fernimizes biç slouçe briks zien hierta.
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
Ist for singwen zat sy fernimç frieze.
It is by singing that she feels peace.
It is by singing that she feels peace.
Y khormede se gard af roç.
He painted the house red
He painted the house red
Sy hafç twies brozers jeh eins swister.
She has two brothers and one sister.
She has two brothers and one sister.
Ni blinke miç se mat! Whon Ik was zien edath, weis ni habem mat!
Don't play with food! When I was your age, we didn't have food!
Don't play with food! When I was your age, we didn't have food!
Guç saw oll zat Y toude, jeh it was file goç. Jeh was ondnaht, jeh was muergen. It was se seiste dag...
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the...
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the...
Language family relationships
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[edit] [view] Brazilis (Brazilian Gothish)Brazilian Gothish, is the only Lusitanian dialect derived primarily from the west branch of Iberian Gothic. It is spoken by almost all of the 214 million inhabitants of Brazil and spoken widely across the Brazilian diaspora, today consisting of about two million Brazilians who have emigrated to other countries.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʲ | b | t | d | k kʷ | g | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f fʲ | v | θ θʲ | ð ðʲ | s | z | ʃ | x | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Blends | θt | sk | ŋdʒ | ts | st | jɔ | ks | vd | ju | jɛ |
| ps | sp | ja | xs | mb | fs | θk |
- beginning of the word
- before, after consonants and between vowels, allophone of /r/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i: | u: uʲ | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | eʷ eʲ | oʷ | ||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛʷ ɛʲ ʷɛ | ʌ | ɔ | |||||
| Open | aʷ aʲ ʷaʲ | ɑ | ||||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Gothish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 GothishOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Aa/ɑ/ | Bb/v/, /b/ | Çç/θ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ə/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/ɪ/ | Jj/x/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/1, [ɾ]2 | Ss/z/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/ʌ/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/i:/ | Zz/ð/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||||
- beginning of the word
- before, after consonants and between vowels
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