Sebric language

Sebric
Modern Sebric
Sebriaç - Sebrie språjk
Pronunciation	[seːbʁiaʃ]
Native to	New Sebronia
Region	North-Thuadian Germanic Belt
Ethnicity	Sebrics
Native speakers	[L1]: 107,790,000 (2020) L2: 14,043,000 FL: 12,300,000
Language family	Thuado-Thrismaran Germanic North-Thuadian Germanic Batro-Laakyan Sebric
Early form	Traditional Sebric
Standard forms	Standard Sebric
Writing system	Latin script (Sebric alphabet)
Signed forms	Signed Sebric
Official status
Official language in	New Sebronia Kistolia Sekidean Union
Recognised minority language in	Qazhshava Tiskaiya
Regulated by	Sebri Kommitė fer Riigadçrebjingœn (Sebric Commitee for Orthography)
Language codes
ISO 639-1	se
ISO 639-2	seb
ISO 639-3	Variously: seb – Standart Sebric snj – Northbatro-Sebric lan – Lanterian loe – Lyreese tvs – Tretversish sar – Sarbian vrm – Vermian svs – Westbatro-Sebric brn – Bernish svb – Sverban mld – Mitlanderan osr – Osberish esp – Espian vln – Valanian mrv – Meravese esc – Especian kae – Kærese aer – Ardrenan
Official and majority language   Co-official, but not majority language   Statutory minority language   Non-statutory minority language (>100,000 speakers)

The Sebric language (Sebriaç, pronounced [seːbʁiaʃ] ( listen)) is a North-Thuadian Germanic language mainly spoken in New Sebronia and its neighbors, being an official language in New Sebronia and Kistolia, as well as in the Sekidean Union and a regional recognized language in the neighboring countries of Qazhshava and Tiskaiya. Being in the Batro-Laakyan language group, it shares similarities with Bakyernian and the other surrounding germanic languages and is the successor of the almost extinct Traditional Sebric.

Categorization

The sebric language has - due to it being present in all over New Sebronia and experiencing a lot of influence from neighboring countries - a broad variety of different dialects, which are categorized in 2 large cultural groups, 6 regional groups, or 17 sub-cultural groups, as following:

• Sebric
  • Batrec
    • Eastern Sebric
      • Lyreese
      • Tretversish
      • Vermian
    • Northern Sebric
      • Northbatro-Sebric
      • Lanterian
      • Bernish
    • Southern Sebric
      • Westbatro-Sebric
      • Sarbian
      • Sverban
  • Batro-Germanic
    • Western Sebric
      • Especian (Kisto-Germano-Sebric)
      • Espian (Kisto-Batro-Sebric)
      • Meravese
    • Central Sebric
      • Midlanderan
      • Valanian
      • Osberish
    • South-Western Sebric
      • Kærese
      • Ardrenan (Qazhshavo-Sebric)

The dialects mostly differ by pronounciation, but also most distinguishably by using very different, regional based particles and interjections. While no Sebric speaks perfect Standart Sebric, closest are the Northern Sebric dialects due to the lack of foreign influence, while dialects like Ardrenan, Kærese and Especian are heavily influenced by the bordering neighbors Qazhshava, Tiskaiya and Kistolia.

Geographical Distribution

TBA

Orthography and Phonology

Alphabet

Sebric uses the latin script, which was adapted during the shift from Traditional Sebric to the modern language (~15th-16th century AD). The sebric alphabet is almost identical to the Common language, although features a few additions mostly influenced by Bakyernian, which are Å, Ė, Æ, Œ and Ç. The letters Q(u), X and Y are not part of the Sebric alphabet and only used for foreign words (for example Quadråt and Xylophon), while W is completely replaced by the Sebric V.

Æ ("æç") and Œ ("œç") were introduced in the First Sebric Orthographic Reform in 1596, the Å ("long A"), derived from the Bakyernian Ä, together with the Ė ("long E"), was officially included into the Sebric Alphabet in the Second Sebric Orthographic Reform in 1670. In the same reform, the modern C (then both /k/ and /ç ~ ʃ/) was officially split into C (/k/) and Ç (/ç ~ ʃ/) for a better understanding of the phonology, which caused the modern C to slowly lose its purpose due to its phonological similarity with K, making it extremely rare and most oftenly used in names (for example Den Edeldec, pronounced [dɛn 'ʔeːdl̩dɛk] ( listen)))

A a /a/	Å å /aː/	B b /b/	C c /k/	D d /d/	E e /ɛ ~ e ~ ə/	Ė ė /eː/	F f /f/
G g /g/	H h /h/	I i /i ~ ɪ/	J j /j/	K k /k/	L l /l/	M m /m/	N n /n/
O o /o ~ ɔ/	P p /p/	(Q q) /kv/	R r /ʁ ~ ʀ/	S s /s ~ z/	T t /t ~ d/	U u /u ~ ʊ/	V v /v/
(X x) /ks/	(Y y) /ʏ ~ y/	Z z /z ~ t͡s/	Ç ç /ç ~ ʃ/	Æ æ /ɛ/	Œ œ /œ ~ øː/

Phonology

Monothongs

	Front				Near-front				Central				Near-Back				Back
	short		long		short		long		short		long		short		long		short		long
Close	i	(y)	iː	(yː)														u		uː
Near-close					ɪ	(ʏ)								ʊ
Close-mid	e		eː	øː														o		oː
Mid									ə
Open-mid	ɛ	œ	ɛː															ɔ
Near-open									ɐ
Open	a		aː

Diphthongs

	Ending point
	Front	Back
Near-close	ʊɪ̯
Open-mid	ɔʏ̯
Open	aɪ̯	aʊ̯

Most Sebric speakers often vocalize /r/ to [ɐ] in the syllable coda, a diphthong ending in [ɐ̯] can be formed with every preceding vowel, most commonly stressed vowels:

Orthography	Phonetic Diphthong	Example	Translation
ir	[ɪɐ̯], [iːɐ̯]	irtėm	fallacy
ur	[ʊɐ̯], [uːɐ̯]	vur	whether
er/ær	[ɛɐ̯], [ɛːɐ̯]	bær	the (masc.)
er/ėr	[eːɐ̯]	lėrve	larva
œr	[œɐ̯], [øːɐ̯]	kœrme	wardrobe
or	[ɔɐ̯], [oːɐ̯]	njord	north
ar	[aɐ̯]	hart	hard
ar/år	[aːɐ̯]	vårtelijn	marguerite