Dalmatica

only basic numbers and Swadesh lexicon for now

Context
The language is assumed to be spoken at "present" in an alt-historical setting. Among several other changes, this world still has Byzantium as an existing political reality of a certain geopolitical weight; and several Romance-speaking nations non-existing in our timeline (OTL).

"Dalmatia" is a two-century old independent polity, with its capital in Yeshpelc (OTL Split), albeit with an important ancestor state centuries before whose legendary doomed struggle for freedom against the Byzantines rooted a national conscience. The language itself, profoundly innovative in sound but archaic in many other respects, came from the interior where this earlier kingdom had flourished, superseding and quickly replacing in the XVI-XVIIth centuries of the Christian Era a more Latinate-sounding cousin previously spoken along the coast and in the islands. The country is mostly Uniate Catholic, with relevant Orthodox presence; the language is indifferently written with the traditional Glagolithic script or with a clear Latin transliteration definitely fixed a couple centuries "ago".

Classification and Dialects
* Westic-Italic-Romance- *IllyroRomance

Lexicon
Basic Numbers

1 Vuyën 2 Dvai 3 Tria 4 Tehër 5 Pyenc 6 Hëi 7 Hëp 8 Vuaic 9 Nuaiv 10 Zekë

Example text
Toic' nercër nes'tyen laivrët yekvertpë zë dain'ëcë zëpë draic. Avënhyet c'anen roigoc ye kauns'tyancën ye zëvyen ye hyezye vuyën yeltur n'aumku yezelpii.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood