Riftian

Riftian, or Riftian Galanglic, is a major dialect of Anglic spoken in the spinward frontiers of the Third Imperium.

This dialect is primarily used in the region "Behind the Claw", throughout the Domain of Deneb.

• It is a semi-central language, with stronger Solomani language group influences.

Description (Specifications)

The Riftian dialect arose more recently than the other major dialects of the Anglic language, as the colonies Behind the Claw are the result of much more recent patterns of settlement. As evidenced by the names given to the worlds of this region, especially in the Marches and the Trojan Reach, many of the original settlers had a wide range of strong Solomani ethnic backgrounds. During the early expansionist years of the Third Imperium, a time when the polity was in its early glory and "Galanglic" summarized the "zeitgeist" of the era, this resulted in new Anglic dialects drawing from multiple sources. The Riftian dialect is descended from a mix of both the Core and Rim dialects in measure, carried by colonists and explorers into the unsettled regions and augmented further with additional Terran-derived languages. As a result, Riftian speakers, more than those of any other dialect, will tend to refer to their language as the "Galanglic" language.

Structure

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Morphology

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• morpheme, inflection, paradigm, declension, derivation, compound, etc.

Phonology

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• phoneme, allophone, segment, mora, syllable, foot, stress, tone, etc.

Grammar

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• tense, aspect, mood and modality, grammatical number, grammatical gender, case, etc.

Syntax

Syntax is the study of how words combine to form grammatical sentences.

• phrase, clause, grammatical function, grammatical voice, etc.

Meaning

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Lexicology

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• word, lexeme, lemma, lexicon, vocabulary, terminology, etc.

Semantics

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• meaning, sense, entailment, truth condition, compositionality, etc.

Pragmatics

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• presupposition, implicature, deixis

History & Background (Historical Linguistics)

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Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

This language is primarily in use in the following areas:

• No information yet available.

Sources

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 17.
• Loren Wiseman. GURPS Traveller Core Rules (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 20.