New American

[Nachtswalbe]

This is a more fleshed out version of the "Simplified English" in the thread
NOTE: This is not a criticism of Reconstruction or an endorsement of white supremacy
1. Setting
This isn't really plausible, but an US which underwent successful Reconstruction (1870s) under a Radical Republican administration created an Americanism that was less racist, but more willing to annex territory as seen through the "voluntary" annexation of Santo Domingo (1880s) and concurrent occupation of Haiti (similar to IRL).

The initial and temporary need to suppress ex-Confederate insurgents saw the army become a state-within-a-state akin to the security forces in Northern Ireland during the Troubles IRL and gradually accumulate power, especially through the pacification of Hispaniola and other overseas territories like the American Congo.


New American arose as a largely irrelevant side project to make English easier to learn for the inhabitants of the overseas territories. Unlike OTL (our timeline) there was relatively little public schooling in Standard English partly due to TTL's military governors viewing the "native" population as needing time to adjust to American rule before Americanizing. The simplification initially began with vocabulary (see Basic English) and gradually extended "downwards" to morphology and phonology, drawing from local creole languages as well as AAVE, which had higher prestige at this point in time than OTL.

What distinguished it from other temporary creole languages created through military-occupied civilian interaction like Bamboo English was that Pan-Americanist members of the military viewed it as an useful tool that could be standardized and taught to locals in other territories, down to the Equatorial Defense Line, and perhaps as a lingua franca for all future 246 million Greater Americans, from Pole to Pole.

With the Alliance for the Defense of Civilization as the old world burned, New American became promoted over the airwaves and in manuals for all members of the alliance, taught in schools as a foreign language, the Language of the Friendship of Nations. As the Alliance solidified into the Union and favored technocratic-rationalist-militarist supranationalism over obsolete nationalism, it became the language that was "neutral", the language of the future and the language of the new nation - the Union of New Civilization.

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2. Phonology
Using the principle of one-sound-one-letter meant using phonetic letters, some of which like <ɛ> had their current value in the early IPA since 1888.

Based off of Portuguese and Haitian Creole (and similar to Spanish and French minus front rounded vowels), a seven vowel system was used:
<a ɛ e i o ɔ u> /a ɛ e i o ɔ u/
<ai au oi> /ai au oi/
/ɑ/ -> /a/
/ɪ/ -> /i/
/ʊ/ -> /u/
/ə/ -> /a/
/ʌ/ -> /ɔ/
/æ/ -> / ɛ/


The consonants were simplified as followed:
/h/->/0/ as in Portuguese, French
/θ/ -> /t/ #_
/θ//ð/ -> /f/ _#
/ð/ -> /d/ #_ or V_V
/ʒ/ -> /ʃ/ as in Singlish
/v/ -> /b/ #_ or V_V as in Chicano English or AAVE or Singlish
/v/ -> /f/ _# as in Chicano English
/z/->/s/ as in Chicano English, Singlish

Consonants:
<p b t d k g c j> /p b t d k g tʃ dʒ/
< f s x w r l y> / f s ʃ w r l j/
<m n ŋ> /m n ŋ/

Does this phonology look realistic?