Latinino

General information
Latinino is a descendent of Vulgar Latin, with simpler but much more regular grammar and many loan words from the Germanic languages. It has lost all the noun cases except genitive, and experienced palatalization of ce, ci, ge and gi as other Romance languages.

Phonotactics
The syllable structure in Latinino is (C)(C)V(C)(C). Word final syllables can only end with , , ,, ,  or a vowel.

Writing System
 represents [ŋ] intervocalically and word-initially, [ŋg] elsewhere. represents [ŋg] intervocalically.

Nouns
All nouns end in -o when singular, -os when plural. Nouns do not decline in gender. The only case they decline is the genitive case, with endings -oyi in singular and -osi in plural. The genitive form inflect like an adjective. The definite articles are lo and los, and the indefinite articles are un and us. Compound nouns are formed by changing the endings of non-final components to -a.

Adjectives
All adjectives end in -i when singular, -is when plural. Adjectives always agree with the noun number and case. In genitive, the endings are changed to -iwi and -iwis. They have positive comparative, negative comparative, positive superlative and negative superlative forms.

Regular
Example: piki (small)

Irregular
There are only four irregular adjectives: boni, mali, multi, and poki.

Adverbs
All adverbs end in -e. Adverbs are formed by changing the final -i of adjectives to -e. The comparatives and superlatives of adverbs are as follows:

Pronouns
The pronouns preserve the nominative, genitive, dative, accusative and reflexive forms. The third person pronouns have no gender.

Verbs
All verbs end in -u in infinitive. Most verbs are regular except four auxiliary verbs. Verbs are conjugated with respect to person, number, voice, mood and tense.

Regular
Example: edu (to eat)

Active
edu (to eat)

Passive
eduru (to be eaten)

Auxiliary
The auxiliary verbs are hu, esu, yu, sapu, liqu, posu, oportu, wadu, debu, qertu, awdu, utiyu e wolu. They no have passive voice. Hu, esu, yu e wolu are the only irregular verbs.

Syntax
Latinino follows an SVO syntax. Pronouns are often omitted, as they are embedded in the verb.

Three auxiliary verbs, hu, esu and yu are used with the past, present and future participles, respectively, to indicate different aspect. For example,

Eda bananos. He eats bananas.

Ha edun bananos. He has eaten bananas.

Es eduy bananos. He is eating bananas.

Ye edul bananos. He is going to eat bananas.

Both the gerund and the present participle correspond to the English -ing form, but they have different usage in Latinino. Example:

Eating is forbidden here. Eduwo es prohibur stado.

I am eating. Suy eduy.

Both the passive participle and the past participle correspond to the English past participle form, but they have different usage in Latinino. Example:

The eaten bird died. Lo avo edur moriyava.

The bird that has eaten died. Lo avo edun moriyava.

Example text
Universal Declaration of Human Rights