Cirtanian

General information
Cirtanian, known natively as Cirtauniáns  is a Romance language native to the island of Cirtania west of Italy in the Mediterranean sea. It split off from late Classical/ early Vulgar Latin and retains some aspects of Latin lost in other languages such as phonemic long vowels (although to a much lesser extent) and nouns the decline to case in number (though the ablative and dative cases merged, and all of the declensions have merged into one pattern for masculine and one for feminine- the neuter was also lost.)

Consonants
Some notes about the orthography
 * The rule about c and g is the same as Italian: c and g are pronounced  and  except before i, e and their long variants. Ch and gh are variants of c and g used to maintain the hard pronunciation even before i and e.
 * Z is pronounced as ts if it derives from a t in Latin (i.e. nātiō > nauziú <'naw. ts i.u:> vs persuādeō > persuauziú 
 * X is a similar story doctus > dox <'doks>, vagus > vax <'vagz>. However, when it derives from an x in Latin, it follows other rules demonstrated in the following words: exemplum > exemplăs <'eg.zem.pləs>, excelsus > excels  and ēx > eix <'ejks>. In other words, it is pronounced  when intervocalic,  before c and a front vowel, and  elswhere.
 * I and u represent  and  before another vowel.
 * The letter h is always silent

Vowels
ɪ is an allophone of i when short and unstressed.

ʊ is an allophone of u when short and unstressed.

ɛ is an allophone of e when short and unstressed.

ɔ is an allophone of o when short and unstressed.

An acute (á) is used to show a long vowel, not stress, based on the classical Latin apex diacritic.

Nouns
As stated previously, nouns decline in two major groups to four cases and two numbers. Below are some examples of declined nouns and adjectives.

Masculine

Feminine

Example text

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