Parlovian

Overview
Parlovian is an attempt to create a Romance conlang. Its major inspirations are Catalan and Spanish, along with French, Italian, Sardinian and Corsican. It is a Pan-Romance conlang, meaning that this language could be communicated with Romance-speaking people of different languages and accents. It is supposed to be an international auxlang for all Romance speakers, as by the creator, for whom it is its alpha user.

Consonants
Parlovian has about 25 to 29 phonemes, depending on the analyses.

/m/, /p/, /b/ are bilabial, whereas [ɱ], /f/, /v/ are labiodental.

The alveolar consonants are all phonetically denti-alveolar.

/s/, /z/ are lamino-alveolar, as in English.

All voiced obstruents become unvoiced at the end of words.

/z/, /dz/ only occur intervocalically.

/ʃ/, /ʒ/, /tʃ/, /dʒ/ are alveolo-palatal [ɕ], [ʑ], [tɕ], [dʑ] before front vowels.

/ɲ/, /ʎ/ are laminal "front alveolo-palatal" [ɲ̟], [ʎ̟].

/v/ is phonetically an approximant [ʋ].

[ɱ], [ŋ] are allophones of nasals before labiodental and velar consonants respectively.

Parlovian rhotics
The two rhotic phonemes in Parlovian (/r/ and /ɾ/) only contrast between vowels, similar to Spanish and Portuguese. Otherwise, they are in complementary distribution in which their occurrence is predictable by context. The two rhotic phonemes are otherwise known as "hard r" and "soft r" respectively.

The "hard r" /r/ occurs when:


 * initially e.g. /ˈro.sa/ 'rose'
 * syllable-initially preceded by /l/ or /s/ e.g.