Elbic

Helvica
Pronounced:	/ElvIk@/
Timeline and Universe:	Ill Bethisad
Species:	Human
Spoken:	Elba
Total speakers:	30,000
Writing system:	Latin
Genealogy:	Indo-European  Italic   Romance    South-Central Romance     Central-Southern Italian      Elbic
Typology
Morphological type:	Inflecting
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Nominative-Accusative
Basic word order:	SVO
Credits
Creator:	Sectori
Created:	May 2006

Elbic is the language of the Principality of Elba, an island off the coast of Tuscany. It is a Central and Southern Italian language, related to Neapolitan and Tuscan Italian. It has two sets of changes to initial consonants, similar to the mutations found in the Celtic consonants: the geminate mutation (also found in Neapolitan), and the gorgic mutation (Tuscan Italian).

Phonology and Orthography

The Elbic alphabet contains 37 distinct letters. There are 15 vowel letters representing ten sounds. Elbic has the following vowels:

Vowels
	Front		Near-front		Central		Near-back		Back
High	i									u
Near-high			ɪ					ʊ
High-mid			e							o
Mid					ə
Low-mid			ɛ							ɔ
Near-low
Low					a

Orthographically, these are represented by:

Vowels
	Front		Near-front		Central		Near-back		Back
High	í									ú
Near-high			ì					ù
High-mid			é							ó
Mid					à
Low-mid			è							ò
Near-low
Low					á

There are a set of unaccented vowels <a e i o u>. These, when stressed, are pronounced as the acute vowels, when unstressed as the grave vowels.

Consonants
	Bilabial		Labiod.		Dental		Alveolar		Post-alv.		Palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasal		m						n				ɲ
Plosive	p	b			t	d							k	g
Fricative	ɸ	β			θ	ð	s		ʃ				x	ɣ
Affricate						dz			t∫	dʒ			(ks)
Approximants		(w)										(j)
Trill								r
Lateral Approximant								l

Consonants
	Bilabial		Labiod.		Dental		Alveolar		Post-alv.		Palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasal		m						n				gn
Plosive	p	b			t	d							ch	gh
Fricative	hp	hb			ht	hd	s		x				hch	hgh
Affricate						z			c	g			(x)
Approximants		(u)										(i)
Trill								r
Lateral Approximant								l