South Albic

South Albic
Spoken in:	southern Britain and elsewhere
Timeline/Universe:	League of Lost Languages, UKW World
Total speakers:
Genealogical classification:	Albic  South Albic   Old Albic    Low Elvish    Macaronesian
Created by:
Jörg Rhiemeier	2001-

South Albic is a branch of the Albic family spoken in southern Britain and a few other places. It includes the classical form of Old Albic as well as the modern Low Elvish and Macaronesian languages.

South Albic is the largest branch of Albic in terms of both languages belonging to it and speakers of those languages. Linguistic features characteristic of South Albic are:

• The three grades of Proto-Albic stops (aspirated, neutral and voiced) remain distinct, with the aspirated stops shifted to fricatives.
• Vowels undergo i-, u- and a-umlaut, the former two giving rise to front rounded vowels (lost in some South Albic languages and dialects) that are not found in other Albic languages.