Balearic [BAC]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Balearic
Balearic is a Gallo-Romance language spoken by the people of the Kingdom of Balears.
Sample of Balearic[view] La sentença fuit escrita nà voç activa per le nen.
/ Le nen escrivèt nà voç passiva.
The sentence was written in the active voice by the boy. / The boy wrote in the passive voice.[view all texts]
The sentence was written in the active voice by the boy. / The boy wrote in the passive voice.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeItalic
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
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Latin
⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Gallic
⤷ Occitano-Romance
⤷
Balearic
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
⤷

⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Gallic
⤷ Occitano-Romance
⤷

Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | [n]1 | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | [d]2 | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||
Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ɣ | h | ||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | [l]3 | ʎ | ||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | (w) | ||||||||||||||
Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
Blends | wa | ku | nsɛ | se | ka | kwe | ʒu | wə | gwə | gwe |
ʒy | ko | go | kə | kɛ | ʒo | kwɔ | kwa | ki | ky | |
ʒa | ke | gu | wɛ | ʒi | kwo | ʒɔ | kɔ | kwi | di | |
sɛ | ŋk | gwo | ʒe | si | ʒɛ | gwɛ | we | wɔ | nse | |
ʒə | nsi | kwɛ | gə | wi | kwə | gwɔ | gi | wo | gɔ | |
ga | ge | gwa | gwi | gɛ | gy |
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /l/
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i [i:]1 | y y:2 | u u: | |||
Close-mid | e e:3 | o o:4 | ||||
Mid | ə ə: | |||||
Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | ɔ ɔ: | ||||
Open | a a:5 |
Polyphthongs | ija | ije | ow | iju | ej | ɔw | aj | ijɛ | ɔj | ijy |
ijɔ | ew | ijə | ɛj | aw | oj | ijo | ei | ɛw |
- allophone of /i/
- stressed
- stressed
- stressed
- stressed
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Balearic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
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Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ |
Jj/ʒ/ | Kk/k/1 | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/k/ | Rr/ɾ/ |
Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/y/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/2 | Xx/ʃ/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- loan words only
- loan words only