Northspeak [NRP]
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Language type
International Auxiliary Language (IAL)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Northspeak
Origins of 
Northspeak
After feeling dissatisfied with
Norþic, I wanted to create a simpler phonology and more intuitive grammar and vocabulary. Many of the new changes are inspired by Teutonish, the original Intergermanic conlang.
Features
-Phonemic Orthography
-Only 2 conjugations for verbs
-SVO order
-Shortened spellings of Germanic words, but they still maintain the roots and sounds of their brother and sister words.
Plural nouns are shown through the suffix -(i)r
NorthspeakAfter feeling dissatisfied with
Norþic, I wanted to create a simpler phonology and more intuitive grammar and vocabulary. Many of the new changes are inspired by Teutonish, the original Intergermanic conlang.Features
-Phonemic Orthography
-Only 2 conjugations for verbs
-SVO order
-Shortened spellings of Germanic words, but they still maintain the roots and sounds of their brother and sister words.
Plural nouns are shown through the suffix -(i)r
Sample of Northspeak[view] Du ar drínkín bír for morginmål?
Are you having beer for breakfast?[view all texts]
Are you having beer for breakfast?[view all texts]
Sound samples in Northspeak
Some sound samples of Northspeak. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Zei bítit da vordir aut mín mund!
They bit the words out of my mouth!
They bit the words out of my mouth!
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | ʃ | [ç]1 | [x]2 | ʁ | h | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | [ʋ]3 | [ɹ]4 | j | [w]5 | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | [r]6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]7 | |||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /v/
- allophone of /ʁ/
- allophone of /v/
- allophone of /ʁ/
- allophone of /ʁ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | y | u | |||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
| Close-mid | e | [o]1 | ||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ɔ | |||||||
| Near-open | [ɐ]2 | |||||||||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||||||||
- allophone of /ɔ/
- allophone of /ʁ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Northspeak. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| NorthspeakOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Åå Låg Ah /ɑ/ | Aa Ah /a/ | Bb Bë /b/ | Dd Dë /d/ | Ëë Heih Eh /ɛ/ | Ee Eh /e/ | Ff Ëf /f/ | Gg Gë /g/ | Hh Heish /h/, [ç], [x] |
| Íí Heih Ih /i/ | Ii Ih /ɪ/ | Jj Jöd /j/ | Kk Kë /k/ | Ll Ël /l/ | Mm Ëm /m/ | Nn Ën /n/ | Oo Oh /ɔ/, [o] | Öö Heih Oh /œ/ |
| Pp Pë /p/ | Rr Ër /ʁ/, [r], [ɾ], [ɹ], [ɐ] | Ss Ës /s/, [ʃ]1 | Tt Të /t/ | Uu Uh /u/ | Üü Låg Uh /ʊ/ | Vv Vë /v/, [ʋ], [w] | Yy Yh /y/ | Zz Zëd /t͡s/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
- Before /p/
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Northspeak Numbers 01-Jun-21 06:21
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