Rumon

General information
Rumon split from Classic Latin, earlier than other romance languages. Because of that, it developed a

phonology capable of retaining all Latin cases, but anyway the dative and genitive were replaced by

innovations.

Consonants
/s/, /z/ and /ɾ/ are retracted to [s̠], [z̠] and [ɾ̠].

[j] is an allophone of an unstressed /i/ close to another vowel. And [w] of /u/.

Palatal consonants [ɲ] and [ʎ] are considered allophones of /n/ and /l/ before /i/ or /j/.

Vowels
/a/ is ~[ä].

/e/ is [e̞]~[ε].

/o/ is [o̞]~[ɔ].

/i/ and /u/ are [ɪ] and [ʊ] when unstressed except immediately before the stressed syllable.

/e/ is [ə] when unstressed.

All vowels can be nasalized. Nasal vowels are distinct phonemes and often make pairs, notably as verbs.

Nouns
There are three cases: Nominative, Accusative and Ablative.

Adjectives
As the same masculine and neuter nominative endings often have different possible declination patterns (for

instance, -õs can have -oni, -omi or -onis as plural), the dictionary will list the feminine form of the adjective,

for that never happens to them.

Verbs
Most conjugations were retained, but Rumon lost the future tense, passive voice and imperative mood.