Uínlītska

This majority language of Norse America is derived from Old Norse, with adstrates from Scots, Scots Gaelic, English, Algic, Iroquoian, Eskimo-Aleut and particularly Míkmak and Beothuk.

Phonology

Consonants

p b		t d			k g
	f	s	ʃ	θ	x
			tʃ
		l
m		n			ŋ
w		ɹ	j

Voicing and Devoicing

In natively Norse roots, fricatives are allophonically voiced initially, finally, or between two voiced sounds (consonants or vowels). In non-natively Norse words, or in morphologically-created situations, voiceless fricatives may occur in those positions, which is handled differently by each orthography.

In natively Norse roots, liquids are allophonically devoiced immediately following a voiceless consonant. In non-natively Norse words, or in morphologically-created situations, voiced liquids may occur in these positions, which is handled differently by each orthography.

Vowels

i	y		u
e	ø		o
ɛ	œ	ə	ɔ
a			ɑ

Orthography

Latin Script

p b		t d			k g
	f ff v	s ss z	sk ssk sg	ð ðð ðð	h hh hh
			tj ttj dj
		l
m		n			n
w		r	j

i	ᵫ		u
e	œ		o
ę	œ̨	y	ǫ
æ			a

Before the advent of printing, the Latin script orthography used an uncial hand similar to the Insular script. This is usually transliterated using the printed insular letters, e.g. ᵹ, ſ, ɼ, ƿ, and so on.

Doubled ðð, ff, hh, kk, pp, ss, tt show voiceless sounds where voicing would be expected.

Doubled bb, dd, ðð, hh, gg and liquids show voiced sounds where devoicing would be expected.

A prefixed h shows a voiceless liquid where voicing would be expected. Before a liquid, hh shows /x/. The sequence of /ɣ/ followed by a voiced liquid is shown with an h before a doubled liquid letter. For example:

ahla	/ɑl̥ɑ/
ahhla	/ɑxl̥ɑ/
ahlla	/ɑɣlɑ/

The correct alphabetic order is:

a b d ð e ę f g h i j k l m n o ǫ p r s t u w y z æ œ œ̨ ᵫ

Diacritics are acute for long vowels, or macron (the linea nasalis) for nasalized vowels.

Runes

ᛈ ᛒ	ᛏ ᛞ			ᚴ ᚷ
ᚠ	ᛋ	ᛊ	ᚦ	ᚻ
	ᛐ	ᛣ
	ᛚ
ᛗ	ᚾ
ᚹ	ᚱ	ᛃ

ᛁ	ᛨ			ᚢ
ᛖ	ᚯ			ᛟ
		ᛡ
ᚫ				ᛅ

Other Languages

Other languages in this AU presume the gradual creation and growth of European colonies in North & Central America starting around 1000CE instead of the rapid colonization of Central America starting around 1500CE and of North America starting around 1600CE.

Finla was the first major consolidation of power, followed by "Nova Scotia" (provisional name), consisting mostly of Christian Celtic and Anglo-Saxon missionaries from England and France who established their major centers on the southwest coast of Greenland and to the south of Finla between 1100CE and 1250CE. Their Hibernian language is a Celtic koine of Old Gaelic, Old Welsh, Old Breton and Old Cornish with adstrates from Old English and Old French and a significant superstrate from Church Latin.