Italix

Classification and Dialects
Itálice is a romance language that is spoken by the Italíci people, originally from what is now Slovenia. When latin was still the language of the area, the Italícis resided on a peninsula jutting out from Slovenia, which was broken off by time traveling aliens, who abducted the Italícis. Within a year they were brought back, however the aliens found themselves unable to reattach Italícia. It was therefore placed underwater in roughly the same location. However, an extraterrestrial records keeper made an error in the spreadsheet data, and the Italícis were brought back to earth millenia before they should have been. With technology from the roman empire existing many thousands of years before the roman empire, they were able to construct a society that surpasses even today's standards. This underwater island would later be discovered by the greeks, leading to myths about an advanced underwater city of Atlantis. Trade routes were opened, and many italícis relocated to greece. This led to the development of a greek dialect, and provided paths for the Italícis to spread across the world. WIth a society deeply rooted in tradiation, most Italíci families pass on knowlege of the language to their children, but this practice is always conducted in secret. Occasionally, pockets of Italícis emerge, giving rise to hundreds of dialects of the language.

Sound Changes From Vulgar Latin
Key:

(grave accent or backquote before) - Unstressed, (acute accent or a single quote before) - Stressed, C - Consonant, V - Vowel, D - Non Rhotic Consonant, N - Nasals, X - Includes Continuants and Nasals, A - Any Sound, R - Rhotic, L - Laterals, S - schwa, F - Fricative
 * kʷ > k / _(u,ʊ,o,i,e)
 * kʷ > ʍ


 * 'íː > a ɪ ! _e
 * ie > i
 * `i > ɪ / _L
 * ae > aɪ
 * i > aɪ / #_
 * r > ɾ / aɪ_
 * `ɪ > ə
 * us >  ə / _#
 * s >  t͡s / #_V
 * s > z / V_V
 * s > z / V_
 * a ɪ >  e ɪ / _#
 * h > Ø
 * er > ər / _#
 * è > ə / P_Re
 * i > ə / P_Re
 * k > cç / #_V
 * w > v
 * g >  ʝ / #_
 * g > j V_V ! _i
 * k >  ʧ / _(i,e, ɛ)
 * è > ɛ / C_D
 * o > ɤ ! #_
 * ʊ > ɤ
 * o > ɔ
 * ù > ə
 * u > ɔ
 * à > ɑ
 * p > f / #_V
 * f > v / V_V
 * t > Ø / _# ! S_#
 * d > Ø / _# ! S_#

Grammatical Changes
Important gramatical changes include the perfect tenses becoming compound, the introduction of a conditional and a past perfective, and the removal of some tenses. The way the passive voice is formed also changed, as well as the object pronouns being introduced in front of the verb as in most other romance languages. Certain personal pronouns also fell out of use, leading to the remaining five. Many declesion and conjugation categories merged, due to the implementation of easier-to-pronounce vowels that blurred the lines between the patterns. As conjugation for number was falling out of widespread use, it became necessary to include the subject pronouns. As shown later, they were once again omitted (except the first person) due to futher changes in the language. Articles were added, and word order became more rigid as many noun cases slowly dropped out of the language.

Writing System
Stress is indicated with an acute accent whenever there could be confusion

Nouns
Nouns have changed from Latin in that they are only declined to two cases, and were affected by much more than just sound changes. Nouns usually follow one of three declension patterns, although some do not fit perfectly into these three categories, and others are considered irregular.

The dative case is included in the accusative

First Declension
This category contains only feminine nouns ending in -a. Other feminine nouns are 'other'.

Second Declension
This category contains only masculine nouns ending in -yz. Other masculine nouns are 'other'.

Third Declension
This category contains only neuter nouns ending in -i. Other neuter nouns are 'other'.

Other Nouns
This category contains feminine nouns with endings other than -a, masculine nouns with endings other than -yz, and neuter nouns with endings other than -i. These noun all end in vowels.

Personal Pronouns
The second person plural pronoun was lost, and the third person plural pronouns all became 'Laz', which eliminated the need to use the third person subject pronoun. Then, "To" and "Totyz" fused together, effectively creating another second person plural pronoun. This one is still technically a work-around similar to "you all" in english, and therefore the second person pronoun can be omitted too, unless it is plural, at which point it is preferable to include it. Unless it is very clear whether "I" or "we" is being discussed, it is advised that the first person pronoun always be included. the Italites have a very limited range of pronouns. The concept of gender has been eliminated in the third person, as well as the singular and plural third person pronouns being identical.

Object Pronouns
Placed before the verb. This functions as both the accusative and dative form of the pronouns. The indirect object proceeds the direct object.

Articles
Itálice's articles contain information on the case, gender, and definitiveness of the nouns.

Verbs
Verbs are the most radically changed part of speech in Itàlice, and in addition to all inflection based on number being abolished, new tenses have been added and old ones removed. The addition of a Past Perfective occurred due to the way quick actions were thought of, leading to a more forceful pronunciation and in turn a shifting of stress. The passive voice is formed by attaching om- to the beginning of the verb

1st Conjugation
this conjugation category consists of verbs that end in -are

2nd Conjugation
This conjugation category consists of verbs that end in -yré

Perfects and Progressives
The perfect tenses are formed by conjugating the verb 'Abyré' to the respective tense, person, and mood, followed by the past participle. The progressive tenses are formed by conjugating the verb 'ezyré' to the respective tense, person, and mood, followed by the present participle.