Francien [FRC]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Francien

Francien was always been considered a corrupted form of Standard French, since only the poorest people in Paris used to speak it in the past. Now, most of the population in Île-de-France can speak and understand it and a lot of literature has been written in this language. It has also some degree of mutually intelligibility with French, specially in its written form. It is also spoken in the Kingdom of La Fiori and one of the official languages there.
Features
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Features
- Negation is formed by putting NE before the verb and NON after it or only by putting PAS after the verb, but this is not widely used because people often thing it is way too "French";
- The word order is largely SVO;
- Indirect objects generally precede direct objects;
- Determiners are placed before the noun;
- There's no gender and number agreement;
- Verbs have up to 17 tenses, but only 7 of them are synthetic;
- Verbs don't change by person or number;
- Allophonic nasalization of vowels that precede the nasal consonants /m/ and /n/;
- Retention of the sound /h/ which became mute in Romance languages;
- It's a topic- and subject-prominent language;
Text Sample
Françain: "[...]ma poir venis de le chiel et envahis l'épas
ma aume s'éxprimis désignent et éculptent sur le gel[...]"
French: "[...]mon pouvoir vient du ciel et envahit l'espace
mon âme s'exprime en designant et sculpant dans la glace[...]"
Language family relationships
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⤷ Western Romance
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Francien
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
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⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Gallic
⤷ Langues d'oïl
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ʁ | h | ||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | j |
Blends | wa | gz |
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i [ĩ]1 | y | u [ũ]2 | |||
Close-mid | e | ø | o | |||
Mid | ə | |||||
Open-mid | ɛ [ɛ̃]3 | [ɔ̃]4 | ||||
Near-open | æ | |||||
Open | a | [ɑ̃]5 |
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /o/
- allophone of /a/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Francien. 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/ə/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/ʒ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ |
Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/k/ | Rr/ʁ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/y/ | Vv/v/ | Xx/gz/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order |
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