Vishrian

General information
Vishrian is a Romance language spoken in the eastern Atlas mountains. It was spoken by a hellenistic people that was completely killed of via genocide in the 8th century A.D. after resisting arab conversions. Every Vishrian was appropriately buried with their names preserved in capital letters except for one woman whose body remains missing to this day. She has an empty grave with the name "ADREA VA*SRA."

The native name is Vishrunat, which comes from "avesht-romanat." Apparently, avesht is of Berber origin: compare amasheq & amazigh. Indeed many Berber loanwords seem to have an unusual sound shift of M to V (as well as N to L). Since this is not the case for native Roman words, Vishrian must have taken these words from an unidentified Berber language that has already gone through such sound shifts.

The Vishrian are typically tan with blond hair.

The Vishrians where culturally different from other mediterranean peoples in one aspect. They where women ruled. This could explane why somewords normally considered masculine in most other languages are feminine here.

Alphabet
In earlier inscriptions, all letters where capitalized.

The accented vowels (a* I* & o*) are identified with with a circumflex above them. C is pronounced as c after e & i, as k anywhere else.

N is pronounced ng before velar plosives

Sound Changes
P becomes f when followed by any non-labial plosive.

Grammar
Unlike most Romance languages, Vishrian Adjectives, Articles, & Numerals do not decline to match the Nouns they modify.

Articles
Definate Article: ha*

Indefinate Article: ca*

Adjectives
Positive: -u

Comparitive: -jul

Superlative: -isnu

Adverb Positive: -e

Adverb Comparative: -iu

Adverb Superlative: -isne

Verbs
The past tense evolved from Latin's pluperfect.

Particles
Infinitive: i*r

Supine: tu

Future tense: veru

Subjunctive: ur

Conditional: haba

Numerals
Vishrian has two sets of numbers, Roman & Berber. The Berber numerals translates as "other one", "other two" & so on.

Syntax
Word order is generally free, though VSO is quite common.

Vocabulary
Vishrian has many words borrowed from an unidentified Berber language, but most of it's vocabulary is Roman. Some Berber words include the following.

Example text
English: She always closes the window before she dines.

Latin: Ea semper antequam cenat fenestram claudit.

Vishrian: Clo*dunt sepre a* ha* fenesran teca cenant a*.

Literally: Closes always she the window before dines she.

English: I push the door & it opened.

Vishrian: Trudu egu ha* janun ac jun recludunt.

Literally: Push I the door & opened it.