Alpanlandic





General information
Alpanlandic is a south germanic language which is spoken in the Alps for thousands of years untouched by other languages where it remained archaic and went through strange sound shifts due to its isolation its grammer also shifted to including dynamic and stative verbs as well as fluid-s case. It remained untouched by other languages until french speaking missionaries in the 14th centruey converted the Alpanlanders to christianity and so the borrowed religious words from latin and french and they also traded with basques and germans meaning that business words are primarly from basque and german. Alpies (as they are known colloquially) tend to be herders and pastoralists aswell as fur trappers.

The dialects are north Aplandic spoken in germany and switzerland which is influenced the most by modern german and swiss german

west Aplandic spoken in switzerland and france and is the main dialect its loan words come from french, rumanash and  swiss german, for unknown reasons there some caucasian influences (chechen and circassian mainly) also the grammar is more agglunative

central aplandic is the most archaic dialect and its speakers are very isolated here is its relationship with other germanic languages, including english, dutch,icelandic, german and gothic through numbers



1]ɾ̥ is an allophone of r̥ it is used in quick speech after ⱱ,t̪, d̪ⁿ
2]ʡ is an allophone of k in some dialects

3] ʜ is used in some dialects aswell

Alphabet
This are the alpine runes they are desece from old turkic

Phonotactics
CCCVCCC  CVC CCV VCC CCV CCVC CCCV are the main syallble types for example the word for strength sðrampta, son sin, tower Trau

Nouns
the are 10noun cases and 4 to 3 genders, there also articlles

Cases must agree to the gender. There are more cases than in most indo european languages and the cases are sort of agglunative.

Verbs:
The verbs are complex and they often incorprate benfective and instrumental nouns.

the verbs conjugate to tense and aspect this a table of how it works for example the word for walk  Ȝanaga ADJECTIVE

adjectives agree with case only

Syntax
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transative sentence the man walked to the house [the masculine man nominative masculine  the inaminate house accusative walk past tense perfect] Ta manoi þa hoischuyej pfweind

Vocabulary
the volcabulary primarly comes from proto germanic and french.

Example text
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

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