Bâzrâmani

Bâzrâmani (or Bazramæni)

Note that this Romano-Persian lang has undergone a name change. It used to be Râmâniyân, but is now Bâzrâmani < VÓCEM RÓMÁNICAM.

Phonemes

Consonants

p	t	ch /tʃ/	k
b	d	j /dʒ/	g
f	s	sh /ʃ/	kh /χ/	h
v	z	zh /ʒ/	gh /ɣ/
m	n	ny /ɲ/
	r
	l
		y /j/

Vowels

i	u
e	o
a /æ/	â /ɑ/

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Vowels

Latin sounds	#_, C_C	_C*{i,î}	_C*{u,û}	_#
a, â, au	/æ/ a	e	o	-e
e, ae	/(j)æ/ ((y)a)	(y)e	(y)o	Ø
o	/æ/ a	e	o	Ø
i	e	e	i	Ø
u	o	u	u	Ø
ê, î, oe	i	i	i	Ø
ô	/ɑ/ â	â	â	â
û	u	u	u	Ø

Consonants

Latin sounds	#_	V_V	_C	_r/l	#_r/l	_#
k	k	g	kh /χ/	kh	kha	g
nc		ng		ng
qu	kh	kh
k /_{i,e}	ch /tʃ/	z	ch	ch	che
qu /_{i,e}	k	g
nc /_{i,e}		nz		nj
sc /_{i,e}	sh /ʃ/	sh	sh	sh	she
x (cs)	sh	sh	sh	sh
g	g	gh /ɣ/	gh	gh	ga
g _{i,e}	j /dʒ/	z	j/z	j/z	je/ze
gn, mn, gm, nn	ny /ɲ/	ny
t	t	d	s	s	ta	d
d	d	y	z	z	da	y
n	n	n	n	n		Ø
nt		nd		nd
s	h	h	s	h	kha	h
p	p	b	f	f	fa	(b)
b, v	b	v	v	b/v	ba/va	v
m	m	m	m	m		Ø
mp		mb		mb

^  [1] Geminate consonants are treated as if initial.

Special contexts

liV, leV	yV
tiV, teV	sV
diV, deV	zV
niV, neV, miV, meV	nyV
riV, reV	zhV /ʒ/
ll	y
-cul-, -gul-	ly > y
viC	guC, e.g. vitium > gus
-Cicum#	Ci#
-ellum	-oy > ey
vo	u
al,el,ol	u / _C e.g. altus > ud.
ôl,ul,ûl	u / _C.
il,îl,êl	i / _C.

As the last consonant in a cluster l becomes /r/: Cl > Cr e.g. clarus > kharor.

Latin rd > l, e.g. ardore > alar.

It will be seen that the consonant changes are essentially an outline of the changes between Old and Middle Persian with an occasional Old Iranian or Romance feature rearing its head. They are of course subject to future refinement.

The transcription zh for ry is actually somewhat inaccurate. Lemontaigner as Râmani writers choose this transcription in order to more clearly distinguish ry ژ from ri ري in Arabic script.

Morphology

Plurals of nouns

Bâzrâmani plurals continue the Latin accusative plurals. There has however been metathesis of the vowel and the final h < S. Thus we find:

-âs	-(e)hi (by analogy)	fem'nae, rôtae, cistae	famnhi, râdhi, chestehi
-ôs	-(a)hâ	caballôs, cattôs, diurnôs	kaveyhâ, kotahâ, zornhâ
-ês	-(e)hi	ratiônês, fontês	rasânhi, fantehi

As in other Romance languages neuters have merged with the masculine, and the fourth declension has merged with the second, thus *genôs > janhâ 'knees'.

Adjectives have become indeclinable, unless substantivized

Verb inflection

amâre

amar

amô

amâ

amâs tû

amâst

amat

amad

amâmus

amomho, amomoh

amâtis

amedhe, amedeh

amant

amand