Formosan Creole [FORC]
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Language type
Creole
Place & SpeakersFormosan Creole is spoken by a population of around 17,230,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Formosan Creole
Formosan Creole (Formosan: Formosa Krêols [foɾmosa.kɾɛols]) is a creole language spoken in Taiwan by around 17,230,000 people as a native language. It is the official language of all media in the Kingdom of Formosa. It is normally written using the Latin alphabet but can also be occasionally be written in Chinese characters by older speakers. It is also the only living Dutch-based creole in the world. The vocabulary mainly consists of Dutch vocabulary with some Spanish and Sinitic vocabulary. i love creoles
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Summary of 
Formosan Creole:
Formosan Creole:Formosan Creole (Formosan: Formosa Krêols [foɾmosa.kɾɛols]) is a creole language spoken in Taiwan by around 17,230,000 people as a native language. It is the official language of all media in the Kingdom of Formosa. It is normally written using the Latin alphabet but can also be occasionally be written in Chinese characters by older speakers. It is also the only living Dutch-based creole in the world. The vocabulary mainly consists of Dutch vocabulary with some Spanish and Sinitic vocabulary. i
the orthography isn't exactly what i wanted but it will have to do
Sample of Formosan Creole[view] Posônon fôlhon holofon. Posônon kon frondon holofon.
Humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated.[view all texts]
Humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeGermanic
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ West Germanic
⤷ Frankish
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Dutch
⤷ Formosan Creole
⤷ Proto-Germanic
⤷ West Germanic
⤷ Frankish
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Dutch⤷
Formosan Creole[view] About GermanicThe Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of approximately 500 million people mainly in North America, Oceania, Western and Northern Europe. Proto-Germanic , which was spoken in approxima...
[edit] [view] Pên-o Dialêkt (Penghu Dialect)The Penghu Dialect is a dialect of Formosan Creole used in the Penghu Islands. It sometimes favours Hokkien, Hakka, Cantonese, and Mandarin words over Dutch words. There's also some native Austronesian sprinkles in the dialect.
[edit] [view] Tao Dialik (Tao Dialect)The Tao Dialect is a dialect of Formosan Creole spoken on Orchid/Tao Island and involves heavy influence from the Yami Language. The Tao Dialect is mutually unintelligible with Formosan Creole however due to political reasons, it is marked as a dialect. There have been numerous attempts to lift Tao's status to a language but all of these attempts have failed.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | ʃ | h | ||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Close-mid | e | ɤ | o | |||
| Mid | [ə]1 | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
| Open | a | |||||
| Polyphthongs | iu | ɤu |
- interchangeable with /ɤ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Formosan Creole. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Formosan CreoleOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa a /a/ | Bb be /b/ | Cc ce /t͡s/ | Ch ch che /t͡ʃ/ | Dd de /d/ | Ee e /e/ | Êê ê /ɛ/ | Eu eu eu /ɤu/ | Ff ef /f/ | Gg ge /g/ |
| Hh ha /h/ | Ii i /i/ | Iu iu iu /iu/ | Jj je /j/ | Kk ka /k/ | Ll el /l/ | Mm em /m/ | Nn en /n/ | Ng ng eng /ŋ/ | Oo o /o/, /ɤ/, [ə]1 |
| Ôô ô /ɔ/ | Pp pe /p/ | Rr er /ɾ/ | Ss es /s/ | Sh sh esh /ʃ/ | Tt te /t/ | Uu u /u/ | Ww twê u /w/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- interchangeable with /ɤ/
