Riograndais [RGS]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Riograndais
Riograndais is a Western Romance language which shares a lot of similarities with Catalan. Its morphology is really simple and similar to other Romance languages, specially Catalan. Nouns and adjectives change by number and gender while verbs change by mood, tense, aspect, number and person. Riograndais' syntax is similar to other Romance languages and the most common word order is Subject+verb+direct object+indirect object, although Subject+direct object+indirect object+verb is also possible.
Riograndais is a Western Romance language which shares a lot of similarities with Catalan. Its morphology is really simple and similar to other Romance languages, specially Catalan. Nouns and adjectives change by number and gender while verbs change by mood, tense, aspect, number and person. Riograndais' syntax is similar to other Romance languages and the most common word order is Subject+verb+direct object+indirect object, although Subject+direct object+indirect object+verb is also possible.
Language family relationships
Language treeItalic
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
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Latin
⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Gallic
⤷ Occitano-Romance
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Catalan
⤷ Riograndais
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
⤷
Latin⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Gallic
⤷ Occitano-Romance
⤷
Catalan⤷
RiograndaisPhonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t̪ | k | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | β | f | v | θ | ð | s | ʃ | ʒ | x | ɣ | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | kw | ks |
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Riograndais. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| RiograndaisOrthography | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/β/ | Cc/k/ | Dd/ð/ | Ee/ə/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/ɣ/ | Hh/x/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/ʒ/ | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t̪/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Xx/ʃ/ | Zz/θ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | ||||||||||
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