Lencva gi Soc

General information
Lencva gi Soc [ˈɫe̞ŋkᶹa ʒi so̞k], or Soc, is a Romance language spoken mostly along the Danube River in Romania, Serbia, Hungary, and Austria. It decended from Latin in its own branch, but it shows small influence from Hungarian.

La Lencva gi Soc, àt Soc, istá ua lencva Romanora lòcvatu prèlunc pre le frumî Danuve èm Romynia, Sarvia, Màlhària, è Œstria. Dècendiô èz Latîm èm síu ramu propriu, tè mònstra èmfruenza pàrva èz Màlhàriana.

Changes from Latin

 * loss of b /b/, merged with v /v/.
 * c /k/ palatalized to /ʃ/ before e, è, i, and ì.
 * g /g/ palatalized to /ʒ/ before e, è, i, and ì.
 * gn /ŋn/ became nh /ɲ/.
 * gu /gʷ/ became gh.
 * loss of /h/ as a phoneme.
 * j /j/ became /ʒ/.
 * ll /l/ became lh /ɟ͡ʝ/.
 * qu /kʷ/ became ch /k/ or cv /kᶹ/.
 * alveolar /r/ became uvular /χ/ word-initially and as rr, and became /ʁ/ elsewhere.
 * l following a consonant usually became r.
 * x /ks/ became gs /ɡ͡z/.

Changes from Latin

 * vowel length lost, often becoming diphthongs.
 * ā became à /ɑ/.
 * ē became è /eɪ̯/.
 * ī became ì /iə̯/.
 * ō became ò /oʊ̯/.
 * ū became ù /uə̯/.
 * final -o often became -u.
 * diphthongs often changed or reduced.
 * ae and ei merge with ē to become è /eɪ̯/.
 * au and eu merge with ā to become à /ɑ/.
 * ou merged with ō to become ò /oʊ̯/.
 * oe became œ /ø̞/.
 * ui became y /y/.

Nouns
While the neuter gender died out during the evolution from Latin to Soc, masculine and feminine gender stayed with nouns and their adjectives. For the most part, neuter nouns merged with masculine nouns, but some of them did become feminine. Along with gender, Soc nouns and adjectives lost every declension except for number.

Number
No matter the gender, all nouns get a -s or -es ending to make them plural. Nouns ending in a vowel get an added -s (cemele→cemele s ). In nouns ending in -m, the -m is changed to -n and an -s is added (aczó m →aczó ns ). For nouns that end in any other consonant, an -es is added (príncep→príncep es ).

Personal Pronouns
Unlike nouns, personal pronouns can appear in genitive, accusative, and dative forms.

Verbs
Infinitives can take three endings that determine how they will conjugate: -are, -ere, and -ire endings. From its ancestor Latin, many verb forms were lost and Soc only retained present, past, future, participle, and gerund conjugations. It is important to not that other aspects and voices can be expressed using different combinations of those five forms.

The Little Prince
"In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contradictory! But I was too young to know how to love her." ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

"Èm elhis dìs, nu èntelhigê nichi. Devichê avere jùdicatu sim sicúm gi sías aczóns, nu gi síus verves. Ela òdoret mía pranèta è ilhuminet mía vìta. Nuncvam devichê avere cùrretu! Devichê avere èntelhigetu la tenhèrum sùf sías prètenzóns rèdículas. Tà contradictorias las fròs! Tè ytru jùvem isté pra èntelhigere cvomu amare sim."

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Príncep Pœrem

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense."

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

"Ecve è Ecva Dursley, gi númeru cvatore, Ligustru Pracia, istáronc orgulhosus pra dicere cvi eles istáronc prèfectamém normales, gracias mytus. Istáronc les cemeles ýtimes alcvîs èzpecta cvi itsa èmpricatu cvùm alcvit rarru àt mýsticu, pracví mòdu nu èzchipiáronc cvùm tala èneptia."

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter è le Làpe gil Magu