Lavinés

General information
Lavinese (Lavinés) is a romance language spoken in Lavinya in the north of real-world Italy. It has evolved from vulgar Latin but, unlike other romance languages, also kept some aspects from standard Latin, e.g. declension.

Alphabet
Lavinese uses the standard Latin alphabet: ¹/k/ and /g/ before a, h, o, u, and y; /t͡ʃ/ and /d͡ʒ/ before e and i

²only in the digraph qu /k͡w/

³/w/ before other vowel

Digraphs
Lavinese has the following digraphs: ¹only in -tiana

Stress
Stress is either on the second to last syllable or, if a syllable is marked with an acute accent, on that syllable. As loanwords are always fit to the Lavinese spelling rules, there is no exception to that rule.

Phonotactics
C(C)V(C)

The socond consonant can only be a liquid, trill, or approximant behind a plosive or fricative (approximants also behind nasals and affricates).

Verbs
There are four conjugation classes in Lavinese: a, e, long i, and short i

An example for a-conjugation is imari (to love) An example for e-conjugation is hiberi (to have) An example for long-i-conjugation is veniri (to come) An example for short-i-conjugation is agir (to act)

Imperfect (Imperféct)
The imperfect is used for continuous actions in the past. It is formed by dropping all letters of the infinitive ending except the first and adding -v- and the corresponding present ending of the a-conjugation. In short-i-conjogation the stress stays on its position in the infinitive, marked by an acute accent.

Perfect (Perféct)
The perfect is used for actions start ing at a certain point in the past.