The basic syllable structure appears to be CVC, where either consonant may be omitted (subject to constraints on vowel and consonant combinations).īelter does not appear to allow diphthongs or vowels in hiatus. In other cases, consonants at the morpheme boundary are elided instead: e seems to be the most common, but a is also seen: When forming compounds, epenthetic vowels are sometimes added to break up what would otherwise be forbidden consonant clusters. So far, only the following have been attested:
Some have only been seen at morpheme boundaries, and it is possible that these only occur in compounds. Like Spanish " jota", or Scottish "lo ch"Ĭonsonant clusters appear to be uncommon, and only occur at syllable boundaries there are no initial or final clusters. Īs in "ca nyon" how medial /n/ is realized Ī tap or flap, like "wa ter" in General American English Like French é or "m ay"in General American English. The system described here is the one used by Nick Farmer when discussing the language in the real world, and the one used on this wiki.Īs in "c at" in General American English Īs in " boy" in General American English Īs in " dash" in General American English. Within the setting of The Expanse there is no single standard Belter orthography, and variant spellings or even custom letters are sometimes used by Belters. Most letters have similar phonetic values as in English, but there are some differences. The Belter language is typically written in the Latin alphabet. kopeng "friend" + mi "I, me" → kopeng mi "my friend".setara "star" + mali "small" → setara mali "little star".Like English and many other languages, Belter's basic word order is SVO (subject-verb-object):ĭa Mila lit da buk Miller reads the book.Īdjectives follow the word they modify, as do nouns when showing possession: Grammar Main article: Belter Creole grammar Kewe to pensa ere X? – "What do you think about X?".Sabaka! – a general-purpose curse "Dammit!" or "You bastard!" (lit.To pochuye ke? – "Do you understand me?" (lit.Im ta nating – "You're welcome." (lit.inyalowda - Inners, or people of inner planets.
beltalowda – Belters as a whole, or "us Belters".Belta – a Belter, an inhabitant of the Belt.Many of its words were derived from words or phrases in one or more of these languages.
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Vocabulary For a full list of words and phrases, see Category:Belter words and Category:Belter phrases.Īs a creole language, Lang Belta is primarily derived from English, with influences and contributions from languages of many different families, such as Germanic, Chinese, Romance, Indic, Slavic, and Niger-Congo. Over time this developed into a full-fledged creole language, lang Belta, which became the lingua franca, a common tongue, of the Belt and the outer planets. During humanity's expansion into the solar system, people from many different parts of Earth or Mars often lived and worked together, and they developed a pidgin language to communicate with one another. As its English name suggests, Belter Creole is a creole language.
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