Fortunatian - Conlang Profile

Fortunatian - Conlang Profile

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Language Name	Fortunatian
Language Author	Marcus Miles
Year Began	2002
Site	Fortunatian
Broken Link	No
Site Language	English
Language Type	fictional diachronic language
Uniqueness	The vowel changes and mergers are (I think) unique among Romance languages. The neuter case survives, and a retroflex series existed at an earlier stage. Elision has had great effects on the original Latin.
Language Sources	All the other Romance conlangs; Berber, Etruscan, Guanche, Greek.
Design Principles	Long vowels in Latin merge horizontally, not vertically, borrowing/development of retroflex series (later dental affricates), survival of the neuter gender.
Interest Of Others	Why wouldn't you be?
Conculture Noun Phrase	Y nomn de xnenat, tsrat bone naux!
Quotation	In the Maid's name, rule us well!
Dictionary	Yes
Etymologies	No
Grammar	Yes
Sample Texts	Yes
Unique Script	No
Primer	No
Babel Text	No
Lexicon Size	200
Submitted By	Marcus Miles
Date Submitted	Tuesday, August 12, 2003
Date Edited	Saturday, September 04, 2004
Date To Headline	Tuesday, September 14, 2004

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