Rhomanian

NOTE: Not to be confused with Romanian!

Rhomanian is a Hellenic language spoken by the and the sole official language of. It is also spoken by minority populations in neighboring countries. 225 million people are reported to speak Rhomanian to an extent in 2020 according to a worldwide census, 192 million as native speakers, and 33 million whose native language is not Rhomanian, but exert some fluency in the language to an extent.

The Hellenic languages were spread to the New World following the Fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453, when two brothers and several hundred Byzantine peasants arrived to the New World via Portuguese caravels, when the brothers lied to the Portuguese that they were going south to Africa. The crew got lost in a hurricane in the middle of the Atlantic, where several people were killed. The crew finally settled in OTL's Delmarva Peninsula, near the OTL's location of Washington D.C. The Greek spoken in the New World fell in mutual intelligibility to the Greek spoken in the Balkans very quickly, and Rhomanian became a seperate language by the turn of the 15th century, due to the strong influence of the Native Americans in the area.

The Rhomanians enjoyed peace and prosperity until the, often regarded in North America as a branch of the Seven Years' war, where Great Britain, allied with Vinland, conquered all of Rhomania and imposed taxes on the local population until the , which led to the in 1776. Therefore, Rhomanian also incorporated a lot of English loanwords.

Consonants
* Unwritten glottal stops only occur where a null-onset syllable used to exist.

** <ğ> in the romanization used to be pronounced as /ɣ/, but was lost, and now lengthens the previous vowel.

Phonotactics
Syllable structure is (S)C(R)V(R)(C), where S represents a sibilant, R represents a liquid, and C represents any consonant, and V is any vowel. When C is in an onset consonant cluster, all obstruents except sibilants are allowed. Onsets are mandatory in Rhomanian, and when a null onset existed in Medieval Greek, an unwritten glottal stop is in the onset. The glottal stop and /h/ are not allowed in the coda, and /ŋ/ is not allowed in the onset.