Lavinés

General information
Lavinese (Lavinés) is a romance language spoken in Lavinya in the north of real-world Italy. It has evolved from vulgar Latin but, unlike other romance languages, also kept some aspects from standard Latin, e.g. declension.

Alphabet
Lavinese uses the standard Latin alphabet: ¹/k/ and /g/ before a, h, o, u, and y; /t͡ʃ/ and /d͡ʒ/ before e and i

²only in the digraph qu /k͡w/

³/w/ before other vowel

Digraphs
Lavinese has the following digraphs: ¹only in front of a vowel

Stress
Stress is either on the second to last syllable or, if a syllable is marked with an acute accent, on that syllable. As loanwords are always fit to the Lavinese spelling rules, there is no exception to that rule.

Phonotactics
(C)(C)V(C)

The socond consonant can only be a liquid, trill, or approximant behind a plosive or fricative (approximants also behind nasals and affricates).

Verbs
There are four conjugation classes in Lavinese: a, e, long i, and short i

An example for a-conjugation is imari (to love) An example for e-conjugation is hiberi (to have) An example for long-i-conjugation is veniri (to come) An example for short-i-conjugation is agir (to act)

Imperfect (Imperféct)
The imperfect is used for continuous actions in the past. It is formed by dropping all letters of the infinitive ending except the first and adding -v- and the corresponding present ending of the a-conjugation. In short-i-conjogation the stress stays on its position in the infinitive, marked by an acute accent.

imari --> ima-v-o

Perfect (Perféct)
The perfect is used for actions starting at a certain point in the past. It is the present form of hiberi plus the participle of the verb.

hibo imat

Pluperfect (Pyus que perféct)
The pluperfect is used for something that happened, before something else in the past (expressed by imperfect) happens. It is the imperfect form of hiberi plus the participle of the verb.

hibevo imat

Future (Futúr I)
The future is used for actions expected to take place in the future (big surprise!). It is formed by dropping the final -i of the infinitive ending (except in short-i-conjugation, which doesn't have a final -i) and adding -ab- and the corresponding present ending of the e-conjugation.

imari --> imar-ab-o

Future perfect (Futúr II)
The future perfect is used for actions that will have taken place before another action in the future (expressed by future). It is the future form of hiberi plus the participle of the verb.

hiberibo imat

Nouns
There are four cases in Lavinese: nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative

There are three declension classes, each belonging to one gender: a/feminine, short u/masculine, and long u/neuter.

An example for a-declension is lengua (language/ tongue). An example for short-u-declension is sol (sun). An example for long-u-declension is ovun (egg) In short-u-declension the stem is sometimes changed in all cases but nominative (hom; homini (human; man)) or only if the ending begins with a u (fil; fili; filyu (son))

Vocabulary
Lavinese dictionary