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|image            = File:Germian Flag.png

|imagecaption      = The Germian flag is inspired by the Dutch, German, British and Swedish flags. The crossing represents the intertwining of languages.

|creator          = User:Jeppesper

Germian ('''Germic''' IPA: '''/germiʃ/''') is a conlang created by Jeppesper beginning in 2022, ''germ'' stands for it being based of off Germanic languages. It could be thought of as a conditioned language since it is constructed to be regular, simple, recognizable and to lack grammatical gender and gender differentiation of nouns/pronouns. The conlang is mainly based on English, German, Dutch and Swedish, but it has to smaller extends also been influenced by Afrikaans, Danish, Norwegian, Yiddish, West-frisian, Luxembourgish and Icelandic.

|'''Phonemic orthography'''

|lang a

|lang e

|lang i

|lang o

|lang u

|lang y

 

1. There are no silent letters.

 

2. There is no phonemic reduced vowel sound like English's /ə/.

3. Multiple consonants, vowels and diphthong combinations interact as follows:

'''Descriptive examples:'''

<small>'''Example:''' Jaik¹ hav² ain³ kat⁴. ⇄ I¹ have² a³ cat⁴.

'''Example:''' Jaik¹ siien⁴ nite³ et⁵. ⇄ I¹ do² not³ see⁴ it⁵.

'''Example:''' Ain¹ roud² rous³. ⇄ A¹ red² rose³.

^{'''Example:''' Vat¹ wilte⁴ duu³ dun^{5 6}? ⇄ What¹ do² you³ want⁴ to⁵ do⁶?}

^{'''Example:''' Vii¹ brauke² gouen³ in⁴ de⁵ morgen⁶. ⇄ We¹ usually² walk³ in⁴ the⁵ morning⁶.}

^{'''Example:''' Siien⁴ du² et⁵ nite³? ⇄ Do¹ you (s.)² not³ see⁴ it⁵?}

!Nominative-Definite

!Nominative-Indefinite

!Possessive-Definite

!Possessive-Indefinite

^{de ⇄ the (definite article)}

^{kat ⇄ cat}

^{vleere ⇄ several (plural indefinite "article")}

 

-'''er''' ⇄ (making-subject e.g. English's employ'''er''')

 

 

-'''ing''' ⇄ (state/condition e.g. English's child'''hood''')

|'''ha'''sain'''en''' ⇄ have/has been

|'''had'''sain'''en''' ⇄ had been

|'''vil''' '''ha'''sain'''en''' ⇄ will have been

|'''skalde''' '''ha'''sain'''en''' ⇄ would have been

|'''ha'''dun'''en''' ⇄ have/has done

|'''had'''dun'''en''' ⇄ had done

|'''vil''' '''ha'''dun'''en''' ⇄ will have done

|'''skalde''' '''ha'''dun'''en''' ⇄ would have done

|'''ha'''hav'''en''' ⇄ have/has had

|'''had'''hav'''en''' ⇄ had had

|'''vil''' '''ha'''hav'''en''' ⇄ will have had

|'''skalde''' '''ha'''hav'''en''' ⇄ would have had

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

=====Verb affixes=====

|de vit'''e''' faun de tands ⇄ the whitening of the teeth

'''ike'''- ⇄ (negate)

^{dan ⇄ than}

^{dat ⇄ that}

^{de ⇄ the}

^{et ⇄ it}

^{fiil ⇄ many, much, a lot}

^{groos ⇄ big}

^{hav ⇄ have}

^{jaik ⇄ I}

^{klain ⇄ small}

^{meer ⇄ even more, additional}

^{sain ⇄ am/is/are}

^{vleere ⇄ several}

^{wilte ⇄ want}

=====Adjective affix=====

|xiin ⇄ they/this one (s. proximate./s. former./standard)

diin ⇄ they/that one (s. obviative./s. post-former.)

!'''Generic'''

1. Ordinal numbers are marked by adding the suffix "-ce" to a number.

 

 

 

4. The comma is used as the decimal separator.

| Jaik heiten... ⇄ My name is... || jaik ⇄ I || heiten ⇄ to be named, <span lang="de" dir="ltr">heiße</span>, <span lang="ne" dir="ltr">heet</span>, <span lang="sv" dir="ltr">heter</span>

| Vur sain duu?/Vur sain et? ⇄ How are you?/How is it? How is it going? || Sain duu okee/ok? ⇄ Are you okay? || Sain et okee/ok? ⇄ Is it going okay?

| maince ⇄ maybe || natuuric ⇄ of course || kain problem ⇄ no problem

| antswer ⇄ answer || genau, exakt, presiic, korekt, ret ⇄ exactly, precisely, correct, right || inkorekt, falc ⇄ incorrect, false/wrong

| spliise ⇄ please || ckol ⇄ cheers || grelsing ⇄ greeting

| dae ⇄ good day/bye/<span lang="ne" dir="ltr">dag</span> || guutein ⇄ have a good one/goodbye || cau ⇄ bye

| adjoo ⇄ adieu || ferwel ⇄ farewell || sees vii ⇄ see us: see you/see you later

#  what kind of, what something's like ⇄ vurvat

#  diverse/variated/queer ⇄ veirai

# child, youngling ⇄ kind

# child, progeny ⇄ cinder

# spouse, martial partner ⇄ jaing

# parent ⇄ elter

#  neck ⇄ hals

# nape ⇄ nek

#  throat ⇄ keel

# breast, boob ⇄ brost

#  ass, butt ⇄ bump

#  scrotum, ballsack ⇄ skrung

#  male genitals ⇄ prung

#  sperm ⇄ sperm

# to walk, to go ⇄ gouen

# to flow ⇄ floisen

# to burn ⇄ brenen

# road ⇄ veeg

# disaster ⇄ katastrof

# brown (dark orange colors) ⇄ brun

# ripe, mature ⇄ raif

# correct, right ⇄ korekt, ret

===Wordlists===

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