Alitalia

General information
Lingua Alitalia (English: Alitalian Language), or Alitalia for short, is the official language in Federa Respublika Alitalia(Federation of Alitalian Republics), which is an intergalactic federation. It is said the ancestores of Alitalian people were emigrated from the Earth to a habitable planet several thousand years ago, stimulated by an unknown "divine" power, and then evolved into a human-like race and over 3,000 hybrid races. They united together and explored the universe, and found the Earth around 1st Century A. D. The language itself then transformed, absorbing a lot of Latin words, but only kept simpler inflections. Modern Alitalia does have conjugations and declensions, but highly regular (and relatively simple, of course).

Alphabet
Alitalia use Litera Baronika (literally "Letter of Baron", where Baron doesn't mean "baron" in English) as its common alphabet, but every letter has its equivalent letter in Latin script. Therefore, this article, with any article relevant to Alitalia, uses Latin alphabet instead of Baronic alphabet.

Alitalia uses 24 letters, with upper and lower cases. They are listed by order as follows:

Aa Bb Gg Dd Ee Kk Ff Hh

Ii Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Rr Ss

Cc Tt Ww Uu Vv Yy Zz Xx

The alphabet, when used independently, must be listed in three lines with 8 pairs of letters each line.

Pronunciation
B, K, F, L, M, N, P, S, T, W, V, SH and CH are pronounced as in English.

Letter G never goes soft. It always pronounces /g/.

Letter H, when not used in DH, SH, CH, always pronounces /h/ or /x/.

Letter R is trilled, when not used in AR, AUR, ER, EUR, IR and OR. If used, it can be silent. Alternatively, if trilling is hard for a speaker, /ʒ / is recommended.

Letter C is pronounced /ts/.

Letter Y, used as a consonant, is pronounced /j/. However, when used as a vowel, it pronounces /y/.

Letter Z is pronounced /z/ or /dz/.

Letter X is pronounced /ɕ /.

DH is pronounced /dʒ /, DX is pronounced /d ʑ /.

TX or CX are pronounced /tɕ /.

A always pronounces /a/.

The pronounciation for E is complicated: When not stressed and at the end of a word, /ə /; When stressed and after B, L, M, N, R, X, but not before A, F, H, I, N, O, U, /je/; Otherwise, /e/.

I is pronounced /i/, but sometimes, before another vowel, it will change to consonant /j/.

O is always pronounced /ɔ /.

U is pronounced /u/, but sometimes, before another vowel, it will change to consonant /w/. And, when used in OUR, it is silent.

EU is pronounced /y/, and EUR is pronounced /ə(r) /.

Stress
Stress is mostly on the first syllable. With prefix, it may be on the second syllable. Exceptions will be marked with stress symbol (`) in dictionaries. e.g. Ni`hon (Japan).

Phonotactics
Currently, the longest phonotactics scheme in Alitalia is CCCVCC. A syllable must have a vowel as nucleus, and there are no geminates.

Nouns
There are proper nouns and common nouns in Alitalia as in other languages.

There is a simple declension for nouns, as they have nominative and genitive. Nouns in genitive form can also act as an adjective, but unlike adjectives, they must be placed after the head.

Nouns have three genders: neuter, masculine, feminine. Masculine words are sematically masculine, and always end with -ius; feminine words are sematically feminine, and always end with -ina. However, words with -ius or -ina are not definitely masculine or feminine (if the word actually express a neutral meaning). A good example is the chemical element Hidrius (hydrogenium): it ends with -ius, but is a neuter word.

Proper Nouns
Proper nouns are capitalised; when indicating names, locations and unique localised objects, the spelling will be as close as the localised pronounciation. For example, Moskva (not Moskow or Moskov), Misr (not Egypt), Nihon (not Japan). But Kataiy (not China or Zhongguo).

Names of days, months, scientific names (of biological, chemical, astronomial, or other names with a naming system) are also capitalised.

Honourifics, such as Sur (neutral, for both "Mr. " and "Ms. "), Kamarad ("comrade"), Fratius ("brother"), Fratina ("sister"), and Mayeste ("Your/His/Her Majesty")are capitalised.

Articles
The article, das, which comes from Deutsch, is used for neutral words.

Masculine words use der, and feminine words use die.

Since nouns have no plural forms, if plural must be emphasized, use the article des.

When indicating indefinite meaning, use an (numeric "One") or bia (indefinite "One") instead. Thus, they are not articles.

Conjugation
Infinitives are always end with letter "i", with only a handful of exceptions. There is a conjugation rule for verbs, including a "disposal form", which oddly comes from Chinese. As described above, the conjugation table is universal for all regular verbs (ended with "i").

A verb generally has 12 forms, with non-past (present and future) and past tenses, active and passive voices, neutral, progressive and perfect aspects. It doesn't use perfect-progressive aspect.

To form a future tense, use wil (simple future) or wild (past future) before an present tense verb.

It is recommended, when not causing confusion, to use neutral aspect, present tense and active voice.

The conjugation table is as follows: