Tinianan

Tinianan (native name: Tiñaliól /tˌiɲaliˈol/) is a romance artificial language spoken in Tiñana (Spain) by about 2,000 people.

Classification and Dialects
It's an Ibero-Romance language, although it has influence from Gallo-romance and South Germanic languages.

It is closely related to spanish, asturian, portuguese and galician.

It has three dialects, Fueyian (Fueyiól) the wich is considered the standard, Meresian (Meresiól) and Jimanese (Jimaniól), spoken in three villages of Fueyo, Meres and Limanes (Jimanes in tinianan)

Accents
There are two accents in tinianan, the diacritic accent and the grave accent.

The diacritic accent (`) is used ,like in spanish, to indicate a predominant sound of a vowel in a word.

The grave accent (´) is used in a,e,o and u as separate letters, that indicate different sounds.

Apostrophes
The apostrophe is used for abbreviation:

When "lo", "la", "une" and "una" (the, a and an) come before a word that begins with a vowel they are abbreviated: example: l'osoto (the bone), l'aer (the air), un'insqeto (an insect)

When the pronouns "Me" (I) and "Bi" (You) are in front of a word that begins with the same vowel they are abbreviated: example: M'espece (I wait) B'iniçe (You iniciate)

Abbreviation of "an"
When "an" (in) goes before "la", "las", "lo", "los", "une", "unes", "una", the words are put together like this:

an + la = nala, an + las = nalas , an + lo = nalo , an + los = nalos , an + une = naune , an + unes = naunes , an + una = nauna , an + unas = naunas                                                                   Example: Nala qasa (In the house), Naune foresto (In a forest)

Nouns
Nouns decline according to gender and number. There's two genders, masculine and femenine, masculine is usually declined with e or o, femenine is usually declined with a. Plural is declined adding an s.

Verbs
Tinianan verbs are very simple, they do not conjugate with person or voice, there's only 10 conjugations: Verbs do not decline by number or gender

Syntax
Sentence order:

For normal sentences:

[Subject Article] + [Subject] + [Verb Attribute] + [Verb] + [Object Article] + [Object] + [Object Complement] + [Circumstances (time/place)]

Example: Lo + breço + klérelmete + majei + la + melaça + velmeya + an leir abitái

Translation: The boy clearly eats the red apple in his room

For interrogative sentences:

[Verb] + [Subject Article] + [Subject] + [Object Article] + [Object] + [Object Complement] + [Verb Attribute] + [Circumstances] ?

Example: Majie + lo + breço + la + melaça + velmeya + klérelmete + an leir abitái ?

Translation: Does the boy clearly eat the red apple in his room?

Lexicon
Tinianan/Lexicon

Example text
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 1

Toyes los ésecos humanes naçejes libreles ei egeles an diñitá ei darýes. Som éx doteyos kan ráçio ei konçimenta ei daboit aqtir unes è otréis naune espiríto da frateica.

IPA: t'ojjes l'os ˈeseθos umˈanes n'azejes libɾˈeles ˈe͡i eɣˈeles ˈan dˌiɲitˈa ˈe͡i dˈaɾt͡ʃes. s'om 'eks dot'ejjos k'an r'azio ˈe͡i kˌonzimˈɛnta ˈe͡i dabˈo͡it aktˈiɾ ˈunes 'ə otɾˈeis nˈa͡ʊne ˌespiɾˈito dˈa fɾatˈe͡ɪθa.

English: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.