Ree language

Ree
Reelandic
Ree Reelantsk
Pronunciation				Native: /ˈreː/, /ˈreːlantsk/ Ingerish: /ˈɹiː/, /ˌɹiːˈlændɪk/
Native to				Reeland
Region				Ree island
Ethnicity				Ree people
Native speakers				45 000 000
Language family				Uletarephian Gaermanic West Gaermanic Ree
Early forms				Proto–Ree Island–era Ree Old Reelandic (Low Vumrup dialect) Ree
Dialects				High Reelandic (Oberreelantsk) High Vumrup Reelandic (Obervumrupreelantsk) Low Reelandic (Nederreelantsk) Low Vumrup Reelandic (Nedervumrupreelantsk)
Writing system				Romantian script — Ree alphabet
Signed forms				Reelandic Sign Language (RTG)
Official status
Official language in				Reeland EUOIA
OGFL-1				re
OGFL-2				rld
Map of the Ree language by dialects.   Low Vumrup Reelandic   Low Reelandic   High Vumrup Reelandic   High Reelandic

Ree or Reelandic language is the language spoken in Reeland. It is in the Gaermanic group, and is closely related to Kalmish and High Astrasian. It originated on Ree island, as a mixture between the native proto–Ree language and Gaermanic immigrants' language. By some linguists, the name “Reelandic” is deemed more accurate, as it refers to the modern Gaermanic language that is now spoken in Reeland, while Ree can refer to the older forms of the language as well, not all of which could be considered Gaermanic. Throughout history, older forms of Reelandic have had significant Eganian influences, which are still seen in modern Reelandic, as it has much more words of Eganian origin than other Gaermanic languages do.

Alphabet

The standard Reelandic alphabet has 26 letters:

Capital letters
A	B	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O	P	R	S	T	U	Ů	V	W	Ö	X	Y	Z
Small letters
a	b	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l	m	n	o	p	r	s	t	u	ů	v	w	ö	x	y	z

Additional letters (C, Q, Ä, Ü) are used in loanwords and foreign words. Ree language used to have an alphabet similar to the Kalmish alphabet, but over time, partly naturally and partly artificially, the pronunciation started to differ from Kalmish significantly, leading to removing the letters C, Q, Ä and Ü, and adding the letter Ů.

As in most languages, the letters of the alphabet have their names, which typically relate to how they are pronounced:

Letter Letter name Spelling Pronunciation Spelling Pronunciation A /a/ A /aː/ B /b/ Be /beː/ D /d/ De /deː/ E /e/ E /eː/ F /f/ Ef /ɛfː/ G /ɡ/ Ge /ɡeː/ H /h ~ x/ Haů /xau̯/ I /i/ I /iː/ J /j/ Jott /jɔt/ K /k/ Kaů /kau̯/ L /l/ El /ɛlː/ M /m/ Em /ɛmː/ N /n/ En /ɛnː/

Letter Letter name Spelling Pronunciation Spelling Pronunciation O /o/ O /oː/ P /p/ Pe /peː/ R /r/ Er /ɛrː/ S /s/ Es /ɛsː/ T /t/ Te /teː/ U /ʉ/ Utt /ʉt/ Ů /u/ Ů, Růnt-Utt /uː/, /runt ʔʉt/ V /v/ Ve /veː/ W /ʋ/ Waů /ʋau̯/ Ö /ø/ Öt /øt/ X /k͡xs/ Ix /ik͡xs/ Y /y/ Ypsilon /ˈypsilɔn/ Z /z/ Zett /zɛt/

Phonetics

For help with pronunciation, see Vowel chart with audio and Pulmonic consonant chart with audio, or alternatively: Interactive IPA chart

Vowels

IPA Chart of Reelandic monophthongs

Reelandic language has 8 vowel letters: A, E, I, O, U, Ů, Ö, Y. They are classified as basic vowels. Each vowel letter has a respective phoneme or range of phonemes/allophones. In the table below, there are examples of each vowel in Ree, Kalmish and Ingerish.

Basic vowels

Letter	A	E	I	O	U	Ů	Ö	Y
IPA	/a/ [ä]	/e/ [e̞]	[i]	/o/ [o̞]	[ʉ]	[u]	/ø/ [ø̞]	[y]
Example (Ree)	Hafen	Berg	inn	ober	Sut	Hůs	gröt	System
Example (Kalmish)	Katze	Bett	Ziel	voll	(no examples)	Fuß	schön	über
Example (Ingerish)	father	let	free	more	choose	boot	(no examples)	(no examples)

Combinations of Reelandic letters can produce a new, so–called complex vowel. Examples are: ao /ɑ/, eu /ɨ/, ei /ɪ/, ey /ʏ/.

Complex vowels

Grapheme	ao	ei	ey	eu
IPA	/ɑ/	/ɪ/	/ʏ/	/ɨ/
Example (Ree)	Kaort	Keirk	heyr	neu
Example (Kalmish)	nah	bitte	schutzen	(no examples)
Example (Ingerish)	hot	bit	foot	chicken

Monophthongs

	Front		Central		Back
	unrounded	rounded	unrounded	rounded	unrounded	rounded
Close	i	y	ɨ	ʉ		u
Near-close	(ɪ)	(ʏ)
Mid	e̞	ø̞	(ə)			o̞
Open			ä		ɑ

• /a/ is central [ä].
• /e, ø, o/ are true-mid [e̞, ø̞, o̞].
  • When short, /e, o/ can be realized as mid-open [ɛ, ɔ].
  • When long, /e, o, ø/ can be realized as mid-close [eː, oː, øː].
• /ɨ, ʉ, u/ are close to their respective cardinal vowels [ɨ, ʉ, u].
• /ɑ/ is near-back.
• Schwa (/ə/) is not present in Reelandic as a phoneme, but it can precede a sonorant that would otherwise be syllabic. For example, ⟨hůsn⟩ can either be realized as [hʷuːsn̩] or [hʷuːsən].

Diphthongs

to be written

Consonants

to be written

Transcription

In most languages, Reelandic is not transcribed, but rather transliterated. This primarily concerns the letter Ö, which is rare in non-Gaermanic alphabets, and Ů, which is only present in Reelandic and Drabantian. As for transcription to Reelandic, in order to maintain phonetic consistency, foreign texts are transcribed so that the pronunciation of the transcription matches or resembles the original pronunciation.

Ingerish

From Reelandic

In transcription to Ingerish, only the phonemes not present in the Ingerish alphabet are being transliterated; the rest of the letters are not altered. In some proper nouns that have had an Ingerish name for a long time, this rule may not apply (e.g. Klausburg -> Clausburgh).

Transcription of Reelandic to Ingerish

Reelandic grapheme	Ingerish grapheme
ů	ou
ö	oe
aů	au

To Reelandic

work in progress

Kalmish

As Reelandic and Kalmish are closely related, most letters have a 1-to-1 correspondence; however, there are some differences in the phonetic systems of the two.

From Reelandic

work in progress

To Reelandic

work in progress