Moselle Romance [OXZ]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersMoselle Romance is spoken by a population of around 70,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Moselle Romance
Moselle Romance (natively: Frankesch/Franquès) is a langue d'oïl variety spoken by around seventy thousand people in the Moselle river valley between France and Germany. Some linguists describe the language as the only Northern Romance language although in recent years this classification has been challenged. The language is written in a French based orthography.
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Language family relationships
Language treeItalic
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
⤷ Latin
⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Gallic
⤷ Langues d'oïl
⤷ Moselle Romance
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
⤷ Latin
⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Gallic
⤷ Langues d'oïl
⤷ Moselle Romance
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||||
Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ç | ʝ | x | ɣ | [χ]1 | |||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
Flap | [ɾ]2 |
- allophone of /x/
- allophone of /x/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
Close | i | u | ||||||
Near-close | ʏ | |||||||
Close-mid | e | ø ø̃ | o | |||||
Mid | ə | |||||||
Open-mid | ɛ ɛ̃ | œ œ̃ | ɔ ɔ̃ | |||||
Open | a ã |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Moselle Romance. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Moselle RomanceOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
Aa/a/, /ə/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/s/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/œ/, /ɛ/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh// | Ii/ʏ/, /i/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/, /ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ |
Mm/m/ | Nn/ŋ/, /n/ | Oo/ɔ/, /o/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/k/ | Rr/x/, [ɾ], [χ] | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/ø/ | Vv/v/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |