Angrex

A tentativ name for my future Anglic language. May be switched to a geographic-based one eventually.

Owes much to Futurese.

Initial dialect features

Note that these features' current geographical distribution does not necessarily limit Ängrex's, since a few of them are still spreding. We can fairly surely place it within North America, however…

• Whine-wine merger: /ʍ/ merged into /w/.
• Yod-dropping: Early Modern English /iʊ/ becomes /uː/ (GOOSE) if preceded by an initial consonant. Likewise /iʊɹ/ → /ʊɹ/. Typical exceptions, such as sugar, sure, apply.
• The following rhotic vowels are distinguished: /ɪɹ ɛɹ ɜɹ ɑɹ ɔɹ/ (NEAR SQUARE START NURSE NORTH). [ɚ] (LETTER) is an unstressed allophone of /ɜɹ/. /oɹ/ (FORCE) merges into /ɔɹ/; /ʊɹ/ CURE merges varyingly with /ɔɹ/ or the disyllable /uɜɹ/.
• The cot-caught and father-bother mergers apply, i.e. /ɒ ɔː/ both merge into /ɑː/.
• Medial flapping of /t d/ applies. Glottalization does not.
• The clusters /ns nz/ insert epenthetic /t d/ to become /nts ndz/.
• /tj tɹ dj dɹ/ are affricated to /ʧ ʧɹ ʤ ʤɹ/. (Note that affrication of /sj sɹ zj/ is older and applies to all English varieties, AFATAK.)
• Coda /d/ is lost after /n l/.
• Collapse to a three-vowel system in final unstressed position: /iː/ (HAPPY) becomes /eɪ/ (FACE), while /ə ɜɹ/ becomes /ɑː/. /oʊ/ remains. (Phonetically, these are pretty much [e a o].)

The following changes are still best considered phonetic changes that do not disturb the phonological system.

• /æ iː uː ʊ/ → [ɪə ɪj ʏw ʏ]

aspiration development

(t from T is non-aspirated) P > Ph / _P, _C= (aspiration is found before a tautosyllabic consonant) P > 0 / O_# (final stops lost before obstruents) F > 0 / _P (fricativs lost before a stop, non-aspiration survives) ts > th anti-Grassman (2nd of two aspirates in a word deaspirated)

Somewhat later

Two changes that, while common in even contemporary English dialects, should be considered late adoptions in Ängrex on the basis of their effects wrt. aspiration.

• A coda stop is lost before another obstruent. If another voiceless stop precedes, it gains aspiration.
• /θ ð/ become /t d/ in onset position; /f v/ in coda.

labial/liquid chainshift

v > b / _V v > w / V_ w > v/f / C_ r > w / _V 5 > w l > 4 / C_

more vowel shifts

I E V Vw Vj > e & @ u i aU aI eI oI oU > Aw &j ji oj u I@ Ij Y(w) > jA jej jo(w) Or Ar 3r Er Ir > O A @ & j& r= l= n= > A o A~ @{m n N}. > &~

palatalization etc. glide stuff

tSh tS dZ S Z > ts`h ts` dz` s` z` thj tj dj sj zj nj > ts\h ts\ dz\ s\ z\ J jth jt jd js jz jn ditto j > 0 / _l_ _4_ _BLB_ s > s`/ w_

Aw > o w > 0 / _RFX_

various

h > 0 / V_V dz dz` dz\ > z z` z\ (except prenasal)

Orthography

Per IPA, except:

• A digraph with <h> signifies aspiration.
• /j/ is written as ; similarly /w/ as when not in absolute syllable-initial position.
• <c x j> are /tɕ ɕ ʑ/ before an orthographic , /tʂ ʂ ʐ/ elsewhere.
  • need to decide if coda position needs a different solution
• <ñ ng> are /ɲ ŋ/.
• The lo vowels are <ä a> = /æ ɑ/.
  • or should /æ/ be the unmarked <a>? /ɑ/ could be spelled with something derived from <ah> or <ar> or <aw>.