Ferritumulic

Ferritumulic
Language family	Pisco-Imerchali
Early form(s)	Latin
Era	today
Writing system	Classical Latin
Official status
Spoken in	Vallis Draconum
Speaker
Demonym	Ferritumulic
Endonym	Hiperborian
Number of speakers	idk
Technical information
Usage	Vallis Draconum
Language code	SRN

Ferritumulic, also known as Hiperborian, is a language of the Pisco-Imerchali family, derived from Latin, spoken in Vallis Draconum.

History

Ferritumulic somewhat resembles languages like Italian. However, owing to not being in Italy, but instead in a simulated world derived from, but meaningfully distinct from, it, Ferritumulic does have several unique changes. Geminated stops are banned, and have turned into affricates; geminated continuants are still allowed though.

It took heavy influence from the Programming-Katho-Atlantic language Amphorean.

Phonology

Consonants

Consonant phonemes

	Labial	Dental	Palatal	Velar
Nasal	m	n	ɲ
Stop	p	t d		k g
Affricate	pɸ bβ	ts dz	cɕ ɟʝ
Fricative	ɸ β	s~z	ɕ	x
Liquid		ɾ	ʎ	ʟ

Notes

• Approximants are considered to be nonsyllabic vowels.
• /β/ is devoiced by some speakers.
• Medially, all affricates lose their stop component, but geminate.
• /x/ exists solely as a loaned phoneme.
• /ɾ/ can be geminated into a trill, [r], but this is a result of /ɾd/ and is not universal across all dialects, so [r] is usually considered nonphonemic. Still, [r] is sometimes written as ⟨ʀʀ⟩, particularly in nonformal texts.

Vowels

Vowel phonemes

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Close-mid	e		o
Open-mid	ɛ		ɔ
Open		a

Orthography

Much like Regnate Latin, Ferritumulic still primarily writes using the Classical Latin script. However, it can be "modernized" fairly easily into the modern Latin script. There are some changes from Classical to Ferritumulic, mainly to accomodate phonological changes:

• Since /ks/ merged with /ts/, /ts/ always is written with <x>, even when it comes from /tj tl/.
• Latinate /h/ and Amphorean and Greek /y/ is only written in proper nouns, such as the placename Hyperborea (Ferritumulic writes this as ⟨Hʏᴘᴇʀʙᴏ̀ʀɪ̈ᴀ⟩).
• Amphorean gamma and eta were loaned for /x j/, partially since the last one is a mostly-loaned phoneme (old coda /s/ sometimes sounds like /x/, and so was rewritten at the same time). These are modernized into lowercase, fully-Latin script as ⟨k h⟩. Kappa is also used for /k/ from Amphorean loans, but these are modernized as ⟨c⟩ still. In alphabetical ordering, eta and kappa take the place of h and k.

Consonants

Consonant phonemes

	Labial	Dental	Palatal	Velar
Nasal	ᴍ	ɴ	ɴʜ
Stop	ᴘ	ᴛ ᴅ		ᴄ ɢ
Affricate	ᴘʜ ʙ	x ᴢ	ᴄʜ ᴊ
Fricative	ꜰ ᴠ	ꜱ	ꜱʜ	ᴦ
Lateral		ʀ	ʟʜ	ʟ

Vowels

When used as an approximant, /i u/ use the second item in their cells. Additionally, if the stressed vowel is not the antepenultimate vowel, it is given the grave accent mark. Marking a vowel with acute and grave at the same time uses the circumflex.

Even though they now have semivowel letters, standard text is expected to write the sequences /i.V/ and /u.V/ with a diaresis over the vowel anyway.

Vowel phonemes

	Front	Central	Back
Close	ɪ ʜ		ᴜ ᴠ
Close-mid	ᴇ́		ᴏ́
Open-mid	ᴇ		ᴏ
Open		ᴀ