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Classification and Dialects
Strumian is an Eastern Romance language spoken in Strumia.

Writing System
The digraph ea is pronounced /ja/, e.g. : ea (=she) /ja/. It is a homophone with ia being also pronounced /ja/. The difference between ea and ia is purely of ethymological origin, mostly being traed back to Latin, e.g. : ea (witten as such because of the Latin origin : ea ) vs. iaçere (=to throw - written as such beacause of the Latin origin : ja cere). The digraph does however provoque the palatalization of /n/ to /ɲ/ and /l/ to /ʎ/, e.g. : nea (=new - feminine) /ɲa/ or : alea (=wing) /aʎa/.

The letter l is pronounced /l/, if followed by the letter /e/ or /i/, excluding of course the digraph ea, e.g. : leģere (=to read) /lɛdʒɛrɛ/. Mostly, l is pronounced as /w/, e.g. : lac (=milk) /wak/.

The letter ê is phonetically undistinguishable from the letter and its purpose is only ethymological and morphological, e.g. : ave (=birds - plural of avi ) vs. avê (=hello).

If the letter n is followed by g or c, it is pronounced /ŋ/, respectively /ŋk/, e.g. : sâng (=blood) /sɐŋ/.

Voiced letters at the end of words are pronounced as their voiceless counterpart, e.g. : çorbaģ (=canteen) /tʃɔrbatʃ/; but note that : çorbaģie /tʃɔrbadʒjɛ/.

Northern dialects often merge â and î into /ə/, e.g. : lîmba (=language) /wəmba/. The Eastern dialects often tend to nasalize a vowel followed by the letter n or m, e.g. : nuncâ (=now) /nũcɐ/.

Nouns
Nouns in Strumian may be masculine, feminine or neuter, singular or plural. There are three declensions and three cases : rectus, vocative and partitive.

First Declension
The First Declension (Prima Declinaţio - also called A-Declinaţio ~ "A-Declension") includes all feminine nouns ending in the rectus case with -a. The stem of a word being part of the First Declension is the word without its ending -a. Native feminine names are always part of the First Declension, e.g. : Maria, Ana, Elizaveta,...

Second Declension
The Second Declension (Siecunda Declinaţio - also called O-Declinaţio ~ "O-Declension") includes all masculine and neuter nouns following the same declension pattern in the singular. The stem of a word being part of the First Declension is the word itself, if masculine, and is the word without its ending -o (hence the name of the declension), if neuter. Native masculine names are always part of the Second Declension, e.g. : Mihail, Anton, Giorg,....

The neuter shows some interesting particularities in the plural. First, it behaves in the rectus plural like the feminine of the First Declension by taking the ending -e (a similar phenomena is seen in Romanian, where the neuter noun behaves in the singular as a masculine and in the plural as a feminine). Then, the vocative plural is marked by the ending -ea, directly inherited from the Latin nominative, vocative and accusative neuter ending -a (cf. Latin : templa ~ temples). Finaly, it regains in the partitive plural its habitual pattern of the Second Declension with the ending -ei.