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| | #REDIRECT [[Svanniskar language]] |
| |colspan="2" bgcolor="#0000CC" align="center" |'''Svannískar'''
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| |valign="top"|Spoken in:
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| ||Bavaria, Germany
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| |valign="top"|Timeline/Universe:
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| ||n/a
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| |valign="top"|Total speakers:
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| ||ca. 13 million
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| |valign="top"|Genealogical classification:
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| ||[[Wikipedia:Indo-European languages|Indo-European]]<br>
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| [[Wikipedia:Germanic languages|Germanic]]<br>
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| [[Wikipedia:West Germanic languages|West Germanic]]<br>
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| '''Svannískar'''
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| |valign="top"|Basic word order:
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| ||SVO (SOV in infinitive clauses; VSO in imperative clauses and contrafactual statements)
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| |valign="top"|Morphological type:
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| ||Fusional
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| |valign="top"|Morphosyntactic alignment:
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| ||Accusative-Dative
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| |valign="top"|Native script:
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| |colspan="2" bgcolor="#0000CC" align="center" |'''Created by:'''
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| ||[[User:Sectori|Sectori]]||2006
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| '''Svannískar''' is a West Germanic language spoken in the area known to us as Bavaria, Germany, called '''Svannlándam''' in Svannískar. Its speakers refer to themselves as the '''Svánnar'''.
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| Svannískar was created by [[User:Sectori|Sectori]], derived via sound changes from Proto-Germanic, courtesy of the Proto-Germanic to West Germanic sound changes provided by Siride of the ZBB.
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| ==Sounds==
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| !colspan=17 style="text-align:center; background: #efefef;"| Consonants
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| | ||colspan=2| Bilabial ||colspan=2| Labiod. ||colspan=2| Dental ||colspan=2| Alveolar ||colspan=2| Palatal ||colspan=2| Velar ||colspan=2| Labiovelar ||colspan=2| Lateral
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| |style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Nasal || || {{IPA|m}} || || || || || || {{IPA|n}} || || || || || ||
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| |style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Plosive || {{IPA|p}} || {{IPA|b}} || || || || || {{IPA|t}} || {{IPA|d}} || || || || || {{IPA|k}} || {{IPA|g}} || {{IPA|kʷ}} || {{IPA|gʷ}}
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| |style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Fricative || || || {{IPA|f}} || {{IPA|v}} || {{IPA|θ}} || {{IPA|ð}} || {{IPA|s}} || || || || {{IPA|x}} || {{IPA|ɣ}} || {{IPA|xʷ}} || {{IPA|ɣʷ}}
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| |style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Approximant || || || || || || || || {{IPA|r}} || || || {{IPA|j}} || || {{IPA|w}} || || {{IPA|l}}
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| These are represented orthographically by the same symbol as their IPA representation, except {{IPA|/θ kʷ gʷ x ɣ xʷ ɣʷ/}}, which are represented <þ kw gw h ġ hw ġw>
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| !colspan=11 style="text-align:center; background: #efefef;"| Vowels
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| | ||colspan=2| Front ||colspan=2| Near-front ||colspan=2| Central ||colspan=2| Near-back ||colspan=2| Back
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| |style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| High || {{IPA|i}} || {{IPA|y}} || || || || || || || || {{IPA|u}}
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| |style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Near-high || || || || || || || || || ||
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| |style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| High-mid || || || || || || || || || || {{IPA|o}}
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| |style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Mid || || || || ||
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| |style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Low-mid || || || {{IPA|ɛ}} || || || || || || || {{IPA|ɔ}}
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| |style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Near-low || || {{IPA|æ}} ||
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| |style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Low || || || || || {{IPA|a}}
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| The vowels are represented by their IPA symbol except for {{IPA|/o ɛ ɔ/}}, which are written <ø e o>. Stress is marked by an acute accent on the vowel: í, ý, ú, ǿ, é, ó, ǽ, á.
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| ===i-umlaut===
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| Unstressed -i-, -j-, and -y- in suffixes cause a vowel shift in the preceding syllable, known as i-umlaut. The i-umalut affects the following vowels:
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| | a || æ
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| | e || æ
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| | i || y
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| | o || ø
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| | u || y
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| ==Sound History==
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| V{{IPA|j}} > V{{IPA|i}} unless _V<br>
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| V{{IPA|w}} > V{{IPA|u}} unless _V<br>
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| {{IPA|ɛː}} > {{IPA|ɛ}}<br>
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| {{IPA|ɑ}} > {{IPA|a}}<br>
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| {{IPA|ɔː}} > {{IPA|ɔ}}<br>
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| {{IPA|ai}} > {{IPA|æ}}<br>
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| {{IPA|ɛi}} > {{IPA|a}}<br>
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| {{IPA|ɛu}} > {{IPA|ɔ}}<br>
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| {{IPA|au}} > {{IPA|o}}<br>
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| {{IPA|uː}} > {{IPA|u}}<br>
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| {{IPA|ji}} > {{IPA|i}}<br>
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| {{IPA|iː}} > {{IPA|i}}<br>
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| {{IPA|i}}[-stress] > (nothing)/_#<br>
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| CCV[-stress] > CC/_#<br> (only infrequently, possibly another explanation)
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| {{IPA|ð}} > {{IPA|d}}/_#<br>
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| {{IPA|θ}} > {{IPA|t}}/_#<br>
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| {{IPA|β}} > {{IPA|v}}<br>
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| {{IPA|v}} > {{IPA|b}}/_#<br>
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| {{IPA|f}} > {{IPA|p}}/_#<br>
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| {{IPA|ɣ}} > {{IPA|g}}/_#<br>
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| {{IPA|x}} > {{IPA|k}}/_#<br>
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| C{{IPA|ʷ}} > C/_#<br>
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| {{IPA|i}}{{IPA|u}}, {{IPA|u}}{{IPA|i}} > {{IPA|y}}<br>
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| ==Morphology==
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| ''Main article: [[Svanniskar morphology]]<br>
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| Svannískar is a heavily inflecting language. Nouns inflect for five cases in two numbers, subdivided into the characteristic Germanic "strong" and "weak classes". Verbs conjugate for three persons and two numbers in two tenses and three moods. Like other Germanic languages, Svannískar has a number of classes of "strong" verbs (those with internal ablaut) similar to those of German, for example. Adjectives have both "strong" and "weak" declensions also, and have a total of sixty inflections (though some of these are the same, e.g. the weak feminine nominative and instrumental singulars).
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| ==Syntax==
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| ''Main article: [[Svanniskar syntax]]''<br>
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| Svannískar has moderately complex syntax rules which govern the weak declension and placement of adjectives, the uses of the various cases, prepositional uses of various cases, and so on. Svannískar's basic word order is Subject-Object-Verb (SVO).
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