Scandinavian conlang

Dear all,

this is what I just posted to <germaniconlang> I thought you might be
interested.

Sorry about my lecturing the other day, but I was still in the "real
world“ when you mentioned South Germanic. Have you ever considered
looking into Langobardic and extrapolating from what’s left of it???

I’ve recently discovered more stuff about my “Sealandic“ conlang
(recorded on PAPER!!!!)and I’m getting back into it a little. I’d also
forgotten that I had constructed a Scandinavian minority language
somewhat influenced by Sealandic. I didn’t invent an orthography for it
yet, but I have some phonetic transciptions, which are in IPA, but I’ll
use regular keyboard transciption and explain what I mean by them. So
here goes:

/@/ = schwa;
/O/ = open <o> as in BE <law>
/W/ = voiceless <wh>, as in Scots <whan>
/S/ = <sh> as in <ship>
/E/ = open <e> as in BE <bet>
/Ö/ = open <ö> as in German <Götter>
/I/ = open <i> as in BE <bit>
/ä/ = open font vowel as BE <hat>
/h/ = is always strongly pronounced, as in a slightly exaggerated
pronunciation of <house>
/U/ = open <u> as in <put>
/C/ = voiceless palatal fricative as <ch> in German <ich>

/'gu:@n 'dO:j@n, WO-'fESt@/? "Good day, how are you?"

/oi 'wEtr@n@n 'fly:w@ 'tÖr:@ 'blö:@n 'jEgn@n 'lOft@/
"In winter dry leaves fly through the air."

/tO: stIht:@r ny: 'Öhp: @ 'rIgn@ - tou 'wEr:@r 'wEgr@ 'bEhtr@ äht:@r/
"It'll stop raining soon, then the weather will get better again."

/'lEg@r@ 'äht:W@ 'swÖS@ns oi 'Obm@n - so: 'twoi-j-@ 'mjÖltS@n 'wEr:@r
'suij@n/ "Put some turf in the oven so that the milk is (can be) boiled"

/'gu:j@ 'gäml@ 'mO:w@r@n @r wO 'hEst@n@n häns 'jEgn@n ois@ 'bro:t@n o:
tO: däht: än oi 'käld@ 'wähtn@ 'In@/
"The good old man broke through the ice on horseback and fell into the
cold water."

/hän du: 'fIr@ fju:r@r 'wi:k@n/ "He died four weeks ago."

/hi:t@n wO:r Of stu:r - 'kö:k@dn@r-'wO:r@ häidl 'brUn:@n @ ni:j@n/
"The heat was so great, the bisquits were all burnt from beneath"

/hUn 'e:t@r 'EdZ@r 'ElnIj@ wo:n sälts o: 'pEhp:@rs/
"She always eats eggs without salt and pepper."

/tO: @r 'Öht:@ wo: 'fö:t@n@n 'moin@n - e: hIg: e: hO: däir:@ 'rUn:@n
säir./
"My feet hurt - I think I've run them sore."

/wO:r e: Cou 'ko:n@n@ ('mIn:@) o: e: säd:-O:n@ - o: hUn säd:-a-'se:j@
tO: 'dÖht:@r@n@ 'Ohk:@r@/
"I was (standing) by (my) wife and I told her - and she sayd to tell it
to our(-two) daughter."

Tell me what you think,

Dan

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