Karþreîate
From Langmaker
| Conlang | Karþreîate |
| Author | Wyatt Hess |
| Year Began | 2006 |
| Language Type | fictional diachronic language |
| Lexicon Size | 100 |
| Etymologies | in development |
| Grammar | in development |
| Sample Texts | coming soon |
| Primer | coming soon |
Karþreîate is an artificially constructed language created by Wyatt Hess for use in a fictional world.
Description
Karþreîate is the common language of the fictional world Karþreîa (KRÞ_HessW). It evolved from Ajyrkety, the other major language of Karþreîa.
Because of the circumstances under which it developed (in which the race that first developed it from Ajyrkety had just recently reached an evolutionary level at which speech was possible, and could not pronounce all the consonants present in Ajyrkety), Karþreîate is not so much an evolutionary offshoot of Ajyrkety as it is a garbling of it. There are some predictable changes when translating from Ajyrkety to Karþreîate (N becomes D, M becomes B, G usually becomes Q, etc.), but more often the translation is at best the random attempt at pronouncing the Ajyrkety word that was most often used in the early development of the language - similar to the early European attempts to to spell and pronounce Native American words.
Uniqueness
Romanized Karþreîate uses every letter in the Roman alphabet, with the exception of G, J, M, N, V, Z, W, and Y (the latter two are combined with the letters U and I, respectively), and with the addition of two auxiliary consonants, Þ and Ð, and two extra vowels, Æ (pronounced "uh") and Ø (pronounced "ih").
When written in its original alphabet (but not when Romanized), "dot modifiers" are placed between words to clarify parts of speech. These modifiers have no sound in spoken language.
Language Sources
Karþreîate draws nearly all of its etymology from Ajyrkety, but only some of its grammar.
Interest of Others
Me and a few of my friends, at the present time.
