Dalmatica

Context
The language is assumed to be spoken at "present" in an alt-historical setting. Among several other changes, this world has a tech level of about 1850 AD, with several centers of development (not only Europe, but southern and eastern Asia etc), still has Byzantium (Romania) as an existing political reality of a certain geopolitical weight; and several Romance-speaking nations non-existing in our timeline (OTL).

"Dalmatia" is a two-century old independent polity, with its capital in Yeshpelc (OTL Split), albeit with an important ancestor state centuries before whose legendary doomed struggle for freedom against Constantinople rooted a national conscience. The language itself, profoundly innovative in sound but archaic in many other respects, came from the interior where this earlier kingdom had flourished, superseding and quickly replacing in the XVI-XVIIth centuries of the Christian Era a more Latinate-sounding cousin previously spoken along the coast and in the islands. The country is mostly Uniate Catholic, with relevant Orthodox presence; the language is preferably written with the traditional Glagolithic script, or, for interaction with Western cultures, with a clear Latin transliteration definitely fixed a couple centuries "ago".

Classification and Dialects
* Aryan-Italic-Romance-*IllyroRomance

Lexicon
Basic Numbers

1 Vuyën 2 Dvai 3 Tria 4 Tehër 5 Pyenc 6 Hëi 7 Hëp 8 Vuaic 9 Nuaiv 10 Zekë

Example texts
''Toic' nercër nes'tyen laivrët yekvertpë zë dain'ëcë zëpë draic. Avënhyet c'anen raugos' ye kauns'tyancën ye zëvyen ye hyezye vuyën yeltur n'aumku yezelpi.''

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.

''Petër nieltrëm fo cëri yas', ayëxyas'tër Nuam Coi. Vën'ec ves'ail'ë Coi. Xaic vuancë Coi haik tari oic cëri. Dvaini haimërë pen'ën nieltrëm vuan'ezyes'ken, yas'koiznipë zëvyëtëz haik yas'koiznom zëvyëtvarz nieltri, nuzazaivinipë taindec'aunën, vaicë yelaivrini ekexi. Hëmb Coi yës't ves'ail'ë, Cuyë pus'të, Cuyë daus'ë, vuan'ayauni. Yamën.''

Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.