Velmarin [VLA]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersVelmarin is spoken by a population of around 3,500,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Velmarin
About 1800 years ago, a Sino-Roman expedition led to the joint colonization of a small volcanic archipelago in the South China Sea. Isolated from the rest of the Romantic world, and with heaps of influence from the Sinosphere (and a healthy dose of linguistic purism), the Velmarin language has since developed into a rather unique Latinate language (there is some debate as to whether the category “Romance” even applies) that trends both phonologically conservative and grammatically innovative.
Notable features include:
Notable features include:
- Retained long vowels and diphthongs
- Pitch accent
- Pro-drop
- Reduced, but still extant, case system
- Regularised four-conjugation verb system
- Collapse of tenses into non-past and past
- Loss of strict plural marking in nominals
- Loss of strict gender agreement in nominals
- Loss of strict person marking in verbs
Language family relationships
Language treeItalic
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
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Latin
⤷ Late Latin
⤷ Far Eastern Latin
⤷ Old Velmarin
⤷ Middle Velmarin
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Velmarin
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
⤷
Latin⤷ Late Latin
⤷ Far Eastern Latin
⤷ Old Velmarin
⤷ Middle Velmarin
⤷
VelmarinPhonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | ɕ | ɦ | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ɕ | d͡ʑ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||||
| Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||||
| Near-open | ɐ ɐ: | |||||
| Polyphthongs | ɐo | ɐi |
Syllable StructureSyllables are maximally sCLVQ word-initially and CLVQ elsewhere, where L is /j, w, r, l/ and Q is a glide or a repetition of the preceding vowel, creating a falling diphthong or a long vowel, respectively; a liquid; a nasal, which assimilates to the following consonant if there is one; a voiceless fricative; or a stop (with a preference for voiceless stops).
Stress informationStandard Velmarin has a pitch accent, where tone of a word rises to a peak on the antepenultimate mora, whereafter there is a quick drop that holds through the rest of the word.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Velmarin. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| VelmarinOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/ɐ/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/ɦ/ | Ii/i/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ |
| Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Qq// | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Yy// | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
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