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English in the AETHER timeline is an Indo-European language and has pretty much the same vocabulary and grammar as our English, but is a Riphic language, not a Germanic one. It is native to our Germany and Poland area, not the British Isles.


==Etymologies==
*''leitmotif'': an opera which used a leitmotif for a character named Lait or Light? (it was an operatic version of Death Note)
*''karma'': a non-Earth Indo-Aryan language
*''mana'': from an IA word for 'mind'
*''Parmesan'': unknown. A folk etymology derives it from a [[Cubrite]] woman's name (Parm Ezan?).
*German linguistic terminology: invented by Edna? The standard terms are:
**''affection'' not ''umlaut''
**''apophony'' not ''ablaut''
**''linguistic area'' not ''sprachbund''
**''lexical aspect'' not ''aktionsart''
**''case stacking'' not ''suffixaufnahme''
**''place of origin'' not ''urheimat''
==Accents==
===Welvington===
The city name is pronounced "Wungton" [wʌŋʔn̩] by locals; it's nicknamed the "Womb of the Nation [Federation]"
Philly + Boston; should inspire Shalaian and Netagin. Should be RP in ways that the Standard accent is not
*The most well-known feature of the broad Welvington accent is the MOUTH-START merger to /aː~æː/.
*-ing becomes -in'; th-stopping to [t̪] and [d̪]
*(Ph) Philly L (pharyngealized nasalized uvular approximant)
*(~Ph, ~RP) Philly-style reinforcement before voiceless consonants; i.e. generalized Canadain-raising-esque effects
**When the consonant is voiceless, the nucleus is shortened consonant is lengthened: ''face'' [fɪjsˑ]
**Otherwise this does not happen: ''fame'' [fɛˑɪm]
*(B, RP) non-rhotic
*(Ph, B, RP) Few or no mergers before prevocalic /r/
*(Ph, ~B, ~RP) Philly short-A system; lax A = [æ], tense A = [eə~ɛə]
*(Ph, RP) GOAT = [əʊ]; GOOSE = [üw]ː
*(~Ph, ~RP) LOT = [ɑ], THOUGHT = NORTH = FORCE = POOR = [oə~ɔə]
*(B, ~RP) START = [ä]
*SQUARE (= tense A) = [eə~ɛə]
*NEAR = [iə~ɪə]
*NURSE = [ə:]
*wine-whine merger (optional in Standard)
*A 3-way distinction of Mary [meəɹi], merry [mɛɹi~mɤɹi], marry [mæɹi], unlike Standard English
*hurry [hɤɹi], furry [fəːɹi]
*orange [ɑɹɪndʒ]
*mirror [mɪɹə(ɹ)] != nearer [niəɹə(ɹ)]
*/iːg/ > /ɪg/, /eɪg/ > /ɛg/ in many words
*/θ ð/ are commonly [t̪ d̪].
===Standard Federation (North American)===
A kind of "Transatlantic accent", inspired by Californian + Philadelphia + Modern RP/Estuary.
Intonation is mostly American + my own weird intonation
=====Vowels=====
*orange = [oːɹəndʒ]
*Mary-merry-marry merger
*Mirror-nearer merger
*Hurry-furry merger
*No mergers before /l/
*No trap-bath split
=====Consonants=====
*L is light [l] before vowels and dark [ɫ] otherwise, as in RP.
**wholly-holy split.
*No glottal reinforcement before stops.
*/p t k/ are unaspirated after stressed syllables as in AmE.
*/d t/ has a tapped [ɾ] allophone in similar environments as in American English.
*wine-whine merger optional.
*/r/ may be [ʋ] between vowels.
===European===
Standard European: Irish + Aus + NZ?
horse = [hɔɹs], hoarse = [hœɹs~hɜɹs]
Much more dialectal diversity in Switzerland and Bavaria (like in our German; they are sometimes considered separate languages)

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