Trạyn

Trạyn

Australian (Trạyn) is a Germanic language closely related to English that developed primarily in Australia, where it is one of the official languages alongside International English and Vietnamese. Spoken by approximately 34 million people (as of 2319), it is the native language of the majority of Anglo-Australians (Sam Uóy-Cán) and Vietnamese-Australians (Sam Vyểt-Cán) along the east and south coasts of Australia. It is also spoken by a minority of people in New Zealand, where it is recognised as a third official spoken language, and by a minority of people in Vietnam. The vocabulary of Australian is primarily descended from English which was previously spoken across the entirety of Australia but is now restricted primarily to the states of Western Australia (Goe Tay Ă-Trạy-Liâ Táy), Tasmania (Thàt-Mân Oư Táy), and the Northern Territory (Goe Bác Táy). Mass borrowing from Vietnamese took place in the late 21st century after an influx of Vietnamese immigrants, these words being called Vyểt Sam Từ, and were given slightly altered pronunciations to match the underdeveloped tone system of Australian at the time. The two main dialects of Australian are Queensland Australian (Quìn Lẽn Táy Dả Lêc), spoken in the northern parts of Queensland, and Standard Australian (Càn-Brâ Trạyn). Queensland Australian and Standard Australian dialects vary only subtly in pronunciation, however Queensland Australian borrows substantially more from Languages other than Vietnamese, including Thai and southern Chinese dialects, while Standard Australian is mostly restricted to Vietnamese loan words. The dialects are mutually intelligable. All information on this page refers to Standard Australian unless otherwise specified.

Tones
Australian has 4 phonemically distinct tones, which combined with vowel length allows for 7 different vowel qualities:

Phonotactics
The maximum syllable is CrVC. Diphthongs are gernerally transcribed with approximants rather than vowels, but are included in V for simplicicty. Legal syllable coda consonants are limited to /p/, /t/, /k/, /n/, /ŋ/, and /ʋ/. Voiceless stops are unreleased at syllable coda in Standard Australian, but may be released in Queensland Australian. The flat tone may vary in realisation depending on the surrounding tones in a sentence to aid pronunciation. For example, Yửt rêt uến ("you all went"), the written tones are dipping-flat-rising, but the middle flat tone may be realised as a falling tone to aid pronunciation, but in careful speech it will generally be realised only as a flat (mid) tone. The flat tone is the only tone that varies.