Limua [LIM]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Limua
Also called Limua Marinaro “Sailor’s Tongue” or just Limua. There are many dialects but this is the one spoken in Cannes and Antibes which is spoken by half its speakers. Others include the Toulon, Hyères, Draguignan, Fréjus (incl. Sainte-Maxime and Saint-Raphaël), and Bormes-les-Mimosas dialects.
Old Provençal base borrowing from Berber and Sardinian, then Portuguese, and finally French and English
Even more simplified verb inflections, first person and second person plural merging with third person singular
Spoken as a trade language in the French Riviera coast from the cities of Antibes to Toulon (which means the entire shoreline of the Var department). It also was spoken along the coast of Algeria. Spoken by around 250,000 native speakers. It evolved from the Provençal dialect but diverged significantly as it adopted from many languages. But in contrast from Occitan and Catalan, Limua was never a literary language but a vulgar sociolect that was looked down upon by those educated. It went into rapid decline after the French Revolution, but local conservation efforts in the turn of the twentieth century allowed it to survive in the modern era.
Old Provençal base borrowing from Berber and Sardinian, then Portuguese, and finally French and English
Even more simplified verb inflections, first person and second person plural merging with third person singular
Spoken as a trade language in the French Riviera coast from the cities of Antibes to Toulon (which means the entire shoreline of the Var department). It also was spoken along the coast of Algeria. Spoken by around 250,000 native speakers. It evolved from the Provençal dialect but diverged significantly as it adopted from many languages. But in contrast from Occitan and Catalan, Limua was never a literary language but a vulgar sociolect that was looked down upon by those educated. It went into rapid decline after the French Revolution, but local conservation efforts in the turn of the twentieth century allowed it to survive in the modern era.
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Language family relationships
Language treeItalic
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⤷ Latino-Faliscan
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Latin
⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Gallic
⤷ Occitano-Romance
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Limua
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⤷ Latino-Faliscan
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Latin⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Gallic
⤷ Occitano-Romance
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LimuaPhonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | β | f | v | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ç | ɣ | ||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | ks | ju | waw | je | ja | jaw | wa | wej | we | jew |
| jo | jej | wɪ |
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Open-mid | ɔ | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
| Polyphthongs | iw | ew | aj | oj | uj | ej | aw |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Limua. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| LimuaOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | AI ai/aj/ | AO ao/ɔ/ | AU au/aw/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | CS cs/ks/ | Dd/d/ | DJÈ djè/d͡ʒ/ |
| Èè/ɪ/ | Ee/e/ | EI ei/ej/ | EU eu/ew/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | GN gn/ɲ/ | Hh/ç/ | Ii/i/ | IU iu/iw/ |
| Jj/j/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | OI oi/oj/ | Pp/p/ | QU qu/k/, /k/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ |
| Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | ÜA üa/wa/ | ÜE üe/we/ | UÈ uè/wɪ/ | Vv/v/ | Xx/ʃ/ | Zz/d͡z/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
