Romavian [ROMAV]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersRomavian is spoken by a population of around 200,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Romavian
Romavian is a Romance language that originated in the Iberian Peninsula and it is only spoken in the fictional country of Keltsvia, where it is a co-official language in the region of Romavia along with Keltsvian. Within the Indo-European macrofamily, Romavian language is derived from the following branches: Indo-European > Italic > Romance > Western Romance > Ibero-Romance > West Iberian > Romavian. Sharing most of its characteristics with Spanish, Portuguese and Astur-Leonese but it continued evolving far from other Romance language from the end of the 15th century. It received most of its vocabulary from Latin, and it also has some Germanic and Arabic influence and after the migration of its speakers towards Eastern Europe it started to receive also some Slavic influence.
Language family relationships
Language treeItalic
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
⤷ Latin
⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Iberian
⤷ Romavian
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
⤷ Latin
⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Iberian
⤷ Romavian
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | [ŋ]1 | ||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
Fricative | [β]2 | f | v | [ð]3 | s | ʃ | ʒ | [ɣ]4 | ||||||||
Affricate | [d͡ʒ]5 | |||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
Flap | [ɾ]6 |
Blends | gs | kw |
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /b/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /g/
- allophone of /ʒ/
- allophone of /r/
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i [i:]1 | u [u:]2 | ||
Close-mid | e [e:]3 | o [o:]4 | ||
Open | a [a:]5 |
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /o/
- allophone of /a/
Syllable Structure(C(C))(S)V(S)(C(C))
Stress informationStress is generally found in the syllable that carries penultimate vowel. When the stress is placed in another syllable, the vowel is always marked with a grave accent (à). Long vowels are written with a macron and they are counted as two vowels regarding stress and accentuation rules.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Romavian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
RomavianOrthography | ||||||||
a a /a/ | b be /b/, [β] | ç se cun seiya /s/ | c se /k/ | d de /d/, [ð] | e e /e/ | f efe /f/ | g ge /g/, [ɣ] | h haca // |
i i /i/ | j i lunga /ʒ/, [d͡ʒ] | k ca /k/ | l ele /l/ | m eme /m/ | n ene /n/, [ŋ] | ň eňe /ɲ/ | o o /o/ | p pe /p/ |
q cu /k/ | r erre /r/, [ɾ] | š še /ʃ/ | s ese /s/ | t te /t/ | u u /u/ | v ve /v/ | x ekis /gs/ | y i greca /ʎ/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order |
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