Fricanu [FIU]
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[Deactivated User] on 11 June 2019
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Fricanu
There was a language in North Africa known as African Romance (https://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/African_Romance), this language was spoken in the Maghreb from the Roman conquest until the 14th century AD by the descendants of Roman settlers in Africa and Romanized Berbers and Carthaginians.
I'm making an Alt-History project where this language "miraculously" survives, before the Arab conquest, Byzantium evacuates the Christian population from modern Tunisia to Sardinia where they will live scattered across the island, while in Morocco, a small community of Latin speakers survives isolated in the Atlas mountains and develops a distinct Romance language.
Fricanu is my first conlang, so every suggestion or help will be welcomed.
African Romance and Alt-History
There was a language in North Africa known as African Romance (https://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/African_Romance), this language was spoken in the Maghreb from the Roman conquest until the 14th century AD by the descendants of Roman settlers in Africa and Romanized Berbers and Carthaginians.
I'm making an Alt-History project where this language "miraculously" survives, before the Arab conquest, Byzantium evacuates the Christian population from modern Tunisia to Sardinia where they will live scattered across the island, while in Morocco, a small community of Latin speakers survives isolated in the Atlas mountains and develops a distinct Romance language.
Fricanu is my first conlang, so every suggestion or help will be welcomed.
Sample of FricanuCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
Language treeItalic
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
⤷
Latin
⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Southern Romance
⤷ African
⤷
Fricanu
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
⤷
Latin⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Southern Romance
⤷ African
⤷
FricanuPhonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ɲ]1 | [ŋ]2 | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | (p) | b | t̪ | d̪ | k [kʷ]3 | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | [β]4 | f | [θ]5 | [ð]6 | ʃ | ʒ | ʂ | ʐ | ɣ | |||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /kʷ/
- allophone of /b/
- allophone of /t̪/
- allophone of /d̪/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Near-open | ɐ | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Fricanu. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| FricanuOrthography | ||||||||||
| Aa a /ɐ/ | Bb bi /b/ | Cc ci /k/ | Dd/d̪/, [ð] | Ee e /e/ | Ff fi /f/ | Gg gi /g/ | Hh acca //1 | Ii i /i/ | Jj ji /ʒ/ | Ll li /l/ |
| Mm mi /m/ | Nn ni /n/ | Oo o /o/ | Pp pi /p/2 | Rr ri /r/ | Ss si /ʂ/ | Tt/t̪/, [θ] | Uu u /u/ | Yy i grecu /j/ | Zz zeta /ʐ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | ||||||||||
- loan words only
- loan words only
