Thracian

Classification and Dialects
The Thracian language spoken in Thracia is a Romance language. It is the most conservative language of all Romance languages, since it has retained most of Latin grammar.

Writing System

 * 1) Diphthongs composed by the e-sound change the letter e into ê, e.g. êu /εu/ (=I)
 * 2) The last vowels of the pronouns and the u-sound of the word nu (=not) have to be merged to a word begining with a vowel by a hyphen, e.g. n-odim (=we do not hear - and not : nu odim )
 * 3) ô marks that the o-sound cannot be dropped off to avoid confusion, even if the following word begins with a vowel, e.g. nô odim (=we hear - and not : n-odim ; which means : we do not hear)
 * 4) â and î indicate the same schwa-sound. Whether which you have to use, is based on etymological purpose whether the sound was in Latin an a or an i, e.g. clamavâ (=I was shouting - from Latin : clamabam), but : întelegere (=to understand - from Latin : intellegere)
 * 5) The only diphthong composed by the e-letter, but not applying to the first rule, is the diphthong ea pronounced /ja/, e.g. femea /fεmja/ (=the woman - but notice : rêalita /rεalita/ - reality)
 * 6) The diphthong /oa/ is represented by the digraph oâ, e.g. poârta /poarta/ (=door - and not : /poərta/)

Nouns
Nouns in Thracian may be masculine, feminine or neuter, agree to two types of declensions, to five cases and even to definiteness and finally may be singular or plural.

Second Declension

 * 1) Nouns like turi or coârpu have two stem forms : the nominative stem and the genitive stem, e.g. turi (nominative) - turini (genitive) or coârpu (nominative) - coârpuri (genitive); these forms have two be learned by heart, since there are no rules for the changing stems
 * 2) Nouns ending in a consonant in the singular nominative (or sometimes even accusative for the neuter gender since nominative and accusative have the same noun form) add to their definiteness ending -l the letter u, e.g. mercato r ul (but : coârp u l)