The Secret Discourse

Introduction

Cepperjoleddicg itself is not one language but actually three separate, closely-related languages with a common, shared heritage. Grœna Cepperjoleddicg, or "Green Cepperjoleddicg," is the common language taught in schools and used for everday discourse. Blaewa Cepperjoleddicg, "Blue Cepperjoleddicg," is an older language with stricter grammar rules and a richer inventory of sounds. Finally, Rauþøþlį Cepperjoleddicg, "Purple Cepperjoleddicg," is a highly specialized form of Blaewa Cepperjoleddicg usd for religious purposes.

We shall be concerning ourselves with Grœna Cepperjoleddicg as it is the most commonly-used language. When differences arise between Grœna and the other two, notes will be made in between parentheses. These differences will generally be in pronunciation and grammar.

1 Writing and Reckoning

Cepperjoleddicg is written with a twenty-three letter alphabet which has descended from the Roman alphabet with heavy influence from the German runes. Many letters have special "initial" or "combining" forms which make cursive writing easier. Together with special streign ("diacritics," or symbols used to modify a letter), quite a few characters are needed to write Cepperjoleddicg. In order to make the language more accessible, several transcriptions have been devised based on the Roman alphabet. The Standard Transcription assigns one Roman letter for everu Cepperjoleddicg one, but this causes the same problems and ambiguities that the Cepperjoleddicg alphabet has -- double, sometimes triple letters, and some letters written in sub- or superscript. The Fordsmendrian Transciption, on the other hand, uses single lettters to express frequently-used combinations. As it is the easiest to show over the internet, the Fordsmendrian Transcription will be used on this page.

Below is a table expressing the Cepperjoleddicg letters, the names of the Cepperjoleddicg letters, the Standard Transcription, and the Fordsmendrian Transcription.

Table 1.1

Letter	Name	ST	FT	Letter	Name	ST	FT
	ans	A a	A a		enn	N n	N n
	be	B b	B b		o	O o	O o
	cenn	C c	C c		o tagall	O_i o_i	Ø ø
	edd	D d	D d		pe	P p	P p
	edd iag edd	DD dd	DD dd		rad	R r	R r
	edd susswado	D d	Ð ð		saul	S s	S s
	e	E e	E e		saul iag saul	SS ss	SS ss
	æll	Æ æ	Æ æ		saul iag þœrnu	SÞ sþ	SÞ sþ
	feag	F f	F f		te	T t	T t
	ge	G g	G g		vau	V v	U/V u/v
	og	H h	H h		vau øf vau	V^v v^v	W w
	iod	I i	I i		ix	X x	X x
	iod tagall	I_i i_i	�(r) į		vau tagall	V_i v_i	Y y
	iod øftaggall	Iⁱ iⁱ	J j		eallsæcg	Z z	Z z
	ell	L l	L l		wyrd	�' œ	�' œ
	emm	M m	M m		þœrnu	Þ þ	Þ þ
	emm iag emm	MM mm	MM mm		þœrnu iag þœrnu	ÞÞ þþ	ÞÞ þþ

Those letters in blue are those which do not stand as independent characters in their own right, but are instead created by

Appendix C - Differences Among the Cepperjoleddicgs

§1 Pronunciation and Orthographical Differences Among the Cepperjoleddicgs

The most prominent difference in pronunciation between the Grœna and the Blaewa and Rauþøþlį is the treatment of the letter iod øftagall, j. In Grœna, j has one set pronunciation - it is always pronounced [ �' ]. Blaewa and Rauþøþlį treat j differently. In the other two languages, j is a voiceless palatal fricative ([ ç ]) before front vowels, a voiced postalveolar ficative ([ �' ]) before back vowels, as in Grœna, and mid-close front vowel [( ɪ )] finally.

In Grœna, g is a voiceless velar fricative ([ x ]) when it occurs between two back vowels or finally. In the Rauþøþlį and Blaewa, g is a voiced velar fricative ([ ɣ ]) when it occurs between two back vowels.

Where Grœna treats g as a voiceless velar fricative ([ x ]) in the initial position (such as in the word glaif), the Blaewa and the Rauþøþlį have a voiced glottal fricative ([ h ]). Blaewa and Rauþøþlį may also place a voiced glottal ficative before the r in words such as raun, relland, and ring, but this pronunciation is far less common and is restricted mainly to rural speech.

The voicless retroflex fricative ([ ʂ ]) ri-, rr may be voiced ([ ʐ ]) intervocalically in the Blaewa and the Rauþøþlį.

The cluster aew is written auw in the Blaewa and the Rauþøþlį.

The g is silent in the following Blaewa and Rauþøþlį words but pronounced in the Grœna: bįnag, dag (and in all -dag compounds), ganag, ganog, leig, sauwg, and slag.

The g is pronounced [ v ] in the following Blaewa and Rauþøþlį words but as a [ x ] or [ ç ] in the Grœna: alg, balg, bearg, galga, magan, mylg, nœg, sgalg, þearg, þeargo, and þwearg.