Friðejaskir

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Peace Islandish
Friðejaskir
Spoken in: Peace Island (Friðejar)
Conworld: Real world
Total speakers: 150000
Genealogical classification: Indo-European
Germanic
North Germanic
Peace Islandish
Basic word order: SVO/V2
Morphological type: inflecting
Morphosyntactic alignment: nominative-accusative
Writing system:
Created by:
unknown 850 C.E.

Friðejaskir, (/ˌfɹɪ.ðɛ.ˈjɑː.skɜː/, more commonly known in English as Peace Islandish), is a Norse and Veian language, descended from Old Norse and Veian. It was formed after the Norse settled Friðejar, which led to a merger between the natives' Veian language and the Old Norse spoken by the Norse.

Phonology

Consonants

Bilabial Labiodental Dental Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n
Plosive p  b t  d k
Fricative f  v θ  ð s ɣ h
Approximant l j (w)1
Rhotic ɹ
  1. /w/ is simply an allophone of /u/ when before a vowel. For example, kúoner (the word for "dog") is pronounced /'kwɔː.nɛɜ/.

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close i u
Near-close ɪ
Mid (ə)
Open-mid ɛ  œ ɜ ʌ  ɔ
Open ɑ

Orthography

Spelling Major value (IPA) Examples of major value Minor value (IPA) Examples of minor value
a ɑ hatir ə gefa
b b bör