Giulianese

Giulianese is a language spoken by approximately 1 million habitants of the fictional Giulian Republic in the upper-east region of the Italian peninsula. It is the official language of the country and contains regional status in neighbouring countries, namely, Italy, Austria, Slovenia and Croatia.

Historical background
The Giulianese language was established by a treat signed by the three duchies of Friulia, Trieste ang Gorizia in early XVIII century for the sake of trade and desire for separation from the Venetian Republic after the Turkish-Venetian war during the period of Austrian domination in the region. After heavy economic development in the region with the Austrian-Hungarian Empire in the XVIII and XIX century, major cities in the coastal zone claim independence. That culminated in the same time of the unification of the Italian Kingdom. Friuli was the last of the territories to join Trieste and Gorizia after months of negotiation which had as outcome the Alpine-Friulian treat which would give autonomous power to each duchy in spite of the fact the territory was going to be under the same newly-formed royal protection. The Venetian coast was late annexed by the then called Friulian Kingdom, mostly because Friuli held more economic resources, due to their visible fragility as they had a very extended territory and little to no decent military defense. The Venetian Act unified the former Venetian Republic with the Friulian Kingdom. The Julian Alps together with the eastern portion of the Veneto were then governed by four unified forces. It was the Venetian Act that a common language was also proposed and that marked the establishment of the first Giulianese Grammar in 1876. Despite the indepence conflicts, the Austrian-Hungarians kept close relation with the Giulianese, which is reflected in current local culture to date. It is also worth noting that the French also occupied the region before the Austrian-Hungarian managed to take all the Julian territories over. During First World War, the region kept neutral for the longest time, though it suffered attack from neighbouring powers. It was only twenty years after the Second World War that the Giulianese Kingdom was finally recognized once again, as it had been claimed by the Italians, Austrian-Hungarians and Nazis during such wars. It was after the Treaty of Osimo that the greater area of the Giulianese Kingdom was divided into three: The westernmost (current Veneto) remained part of Italy, the northern and southernmost to the Giulianese and the easternmost with Yugoslavia (current Slovenia and Croatia).

Linguistic Situation
The linguistic situation of the kingdom was revised with the Giulianese Act in 1976, which officialized spelling and grammatical-related policies within the kingdom. Heavy conservative policies concerning manuscripts and press release as well as traditionalist tendencies within the population kept the language not so distant from its distant times. Germanic, Slavic, Western and Eastern Romance languages contact caused strong phonological variation in the dialects of the Giulianese Kingdom, rendering a sharply reduction of the vowel inventory opposite to what was seen with the consonant inventory that had allophones and new phonemes put into use by local speakers. The 1976 Act, therefore, tried to simplify spelling and grammatical conception generating what is known today as High Giulianese, based mostly on the dialects of Udin, Jemon da Friúle, and Trest, major cities of the current territory.

Consonants*

 * Allophones are presented between parentheses.

Vowels
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