Fridian

Fridian was the language of the Fridian civilisation of ancient Fridia (the modern Baluarte Peninsula and parts of Elicia and Scitia). The early Fridians had a great deal of influence on Vallaran civilisation, but were eventually absorbed into and superceded by it. Attested from the 4^th century to the 15^th century, it is one of the earliest writing systems of Eussis.

Fridian

ΩϘΦL RNIN1
_{(whēptul renjinōm)}

Pronunciation: [ʍeːptʰʊl

rɛntʃɪnɤːm]

Ethnicity: Fridians
Era: c. 300 – 1600
Language Family:
Language isolate

Grammar

Fridian was a polysynthetic language with a highly developed case system and an ergative–absolutive alignment.

Fridian Script

Fridian used an alphasyllabary system of writing in which letters represented a consonant sound which may carry diacritic markings indicating the vowel sound that followed that consonant. The Fridian script is not an abuiguida, as vowels are always explicit. Later Fridian cursive also possessed several unique characters: "v", "ɥ", and "ю" which served as shorthand renderings of the indefinite article, definite article, and the conjunction "and", respectively.
Though there is debate among scholars, it's generally recognised that the Fridian script was developed from the Horil script from contact between the Fridian civilisation and the Dischitic civilisations across the Narrows. The script shows a great deal of formal divergence from the Horil script, though some letters, like N and L, are undoubtedly similar, and others, like Γ > Λ show a clear developmental line. Later diacritical marks would develop to indicate vowel sounds, with inconsistent usage, sometimes only being used to indicate long vowels or vowels at the start or end of words. By the time Fridian cursive developed around the 11^th century, the diacritics were considered non-optional, and different forms existed to indicate short vs. long forms.
There are two alternate rominisation standards for the script, differing in their renderings of the plosives (b/p, d/t, g/k vs. p/φ, t/θ, k/χ), the dental fricative (θ vs. þ), the glottal stop (' vs. x), and the palatal fricative (xh vs. ś).

Phonology

Consonants

Vowels