Iermansc 1.0

=Overview=

Iermansc is a Romance language which developed in an alternate timeline in which the Romans conquered the area we know as southern Germany in the first century A.D. The subsequent Romanized German culture lasted long after the breakdown of the Empire several centuries later. The language has a strong family relationship to Rhaeto-Romance, Venetian, and Old French, with a sense of phonological and grammatical flavor from Germanic. The language has radically shifted towards the use of simplified grammatical particles and endings at the expense of rich inflected forms inherited from Latin.

=Phonology=

Iermânsc contains 8 vowel sounds / i u e ǝ o ɛ ɔ a / and 20 consonants /p b t d k g f v θ ð s x ʃ tʃ m n l w j r / including the semivowels /w/ and /j/.

=Orthography= The alphabet of Iermânsc consists of 21 letters, developed from the Roman alphabet with the addition of two runic letters:

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ðð Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Rr Ss Tt Þþ Uu Vv The vowels can also be marked for irregular syllabic stress. Stressed vowels are á é í ó ú (initial syllables are stressed by default and therefore these are never capitalized). The above graphemes represent the following sounds:

a	/a/ in most cases /ɔ/ before a nasal /ǝ/ when at the end of a polysyllabic word b 	/b/ c 	/c/ in most cases /ʧ/ before e, i 	/ʃ/ in the digraph sc d 	/d/ ð 	/ð/ e 	/e/ or /ɛ/ /ǝ/ when at the end of a polysyllabic word f 	/f/ g 	/g/ h 	/x/ i 	/i/ in most cases /j/ when in combination with another vowel l 	/l/ m	/m/ n 	/n/ in most cases /ŋ/ before g o 	/o/ p 	/p/ r 	/r/ s 	/s/ in most cases /z/ between vowels /ʃ/ before p, t and hard c. sc	/ʃ/ t 	/t/ þ	/θ/ u	/u/ in most cases /w/ in combination with another vowel v 	/v/

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