VIVA SIVONIA!!!
Sivonian overview
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A brief overview of the Sivonian language and culture
This public article was written by [Deactivated User], and last updated on 21 Oct 2016, 19:43.
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Sivonian is my personal experiment with constructing Romance languages. I created it by combining elements of Italian, Spanish, and Romanian with Ecclesiastical Latin, throwing some Classical Latin into the mix, and simplifying and streamlining the grammar to simulate what a conservative-but-still-highly-divergent Western Romance language might look like. Now, onto the language itself.Sivonian is the language spoken by the people of Sivonia, a relatively small country situated between Italy and France. Sivonia was a fairly early Roman conquest, with the native Sivonians capitulating to Roman rule in 186 BC. The Sivonians take great pride in their Roman heritage, and this is reflected in their language; Sivonian has remarkably conserved many Latin words and roots that were altered or completely lost in other Romance languages. Some scholars believe that Sivonian may represent an early proto-Romance stage of Vulgar Latin, unique enough to not fit neatly into any other subdivision of the Romance family.
Although it is very conservative in some respects, Sivonian is not the "modern Latin" that it may seem to be. It has diverged from the original Latin significantly in several key aspects. For example, the subjunctive mood, while it does exist in Sivonian, is virtually never used in the modern spoken language. In more literary contexts, such as legal documents and various Bible translations, the subjunctive is still commonly used. Sivonian also does not make any distinctions in speech for politeness; the language is spoken the same way in both formal and informal situations.
As previously mentioned, the Sivonians take great pride in their cultural heritage, and made a concerted effort to purge their language of foreign influence in the late 1600s. Like many other Romance cultures, the Sivonians are fiercely Catholic, with 3 historical popes hailing from Sivonia. Many Sivonains are in fact Jesuits, and Sivonian culture has always placed a strong emphasis on social justice and progressive causes. The Sivonians' preferred pastime is football (soccer), and they have twice won Olympic gold in football. ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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how do they treat words that are directly from Ancient Greek and Latin? they reject them altogether with foreign words or treat them as learned vocabulary which is a part of their heritage?
Greek words and roots that entered Sivonian through Latin are considered a part of the language and have been kept. Some other words from foreign languages, such as Germanic languages, have only remained in Sivonian if they were originally borrowings into Latin.
Sivonian looks really awesome (: it seems that they have lost all noun cases? Also, how do they treat words that are directly from Ancient Greek and Latin? they reject them altogether with foreign words or treat them as learned vocabulary which is a part of their heritage?
