Marianese [LMR]
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[view flag info] Marianese
el maŗanés / a lýguo maŗanés [el marʲanes, a lɯguɐ̯ marʲanes]
[view flag info] Marianese
el maŗanés / a lýguo maŗanés [el marʲanes, a lɯguɐ̯ marʲanes]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Marianese
This is an alternate history Romance language with a Baltic substrate, with some artistic liberties taken in accordance to the creators aesthetic sensibilities.
Sample of Marianese[view] El Sequietŗonal ir a Saul discutie su ți di uobos era el mais rausto, cuodo no caļidaur pasá taudo ievulbú ieș no muoteļo caldo. / Uobos dicise ca isto, ți per pirmo ŗesirá a dirber al caļidaur toļer el muoteļo, sará retenú mais rausto del uotro. / Atio el Sequietŗonal suļá iesí ca podí, pero mais suļava, mais el caļidaur strygie el muoteļo a si;...[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeItalic
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
⤷ Latin
⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Northern Romance
⤷ Marianese
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
⤷ Latin
⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Northern Romance
⤷ Marianese
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | c | ɟ | (k) | g | ||||
Fricative | v | s | [z]1 | ʃ | ʒ | |||||||
Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
Flap | ɾ ɾʲ |
- allophone of /s/
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i | ɯ | u | |||
Close-mid | e | (o)1 | ||||
Open | ä |
Polyphthongs | iɐ̯ | äu̯ | uɐ̯ | ui̯ | iu̯ | äi̯ |
- allophone of /u/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Marianese. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
MarianeseOrthography | |||||||||
Aa/ä/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/ | C̦ c̦/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ģģ/d͡ʒ/ | Gg/g/ | Hh// | Ii/i/ |
Jj/ʒ/ | Kk/k/1 | Ll/l/ | Ļļ/ɟ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ņņ/ɲ/ | Oo/u/, [o]2 | Pp/p/ | QU qu/c/ |
Ŗŗ/ɾʲ/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Șș/ʃ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Țț/t͡s/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Yy/ɯ/ | Zz/d͡z/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order |
- loan words only
- loan words only
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Marianese history
How it came to be
06-Dec-17 10:39