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| [[Wikipedia:Italic languages|Italic]]<br>
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| [[Wikipedia:Romance languages|Romance]]<br>
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| Western Romance<br>
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| '''Germanech'''
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| |valign="top"|Basic word order:
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| ||SVO (V2), SOV in subclauses
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| |valign="top"|Morphological type:
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| |valign="top"|Morphosyntactic alignment:
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| |colspan="2" bgcolor="#99FF00" align="center" |'''Created by:'''
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| ||[[User:WeepingElf|Jörg Rhiemeier]]|| 2001
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| '''Germanech''' ([ʒɛʀ'manɛç], also known as ''Mosel Romance'') is a conlang
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| invented by [[User:WeepingElf|Jörg Rhiemeier]]. It is a Romance language of
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| Germany which was inspired by Andrew Smith's ''Brithenig''.
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| In the world of the [[League of Lost Languages]], it is spoken
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| in a few villages in the vicinity of Trier, Germany.
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| Germanech has undergone certain sound changes similar to the ones of German,
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| including the High German consonant shift and i-umlaut. Otherwise, it is a
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| pretty normal Romance language without any "cool" features.
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| ==Phonology==
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| ===Consonants===
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| Germanech has the following consonant phonemes:
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| | || Labial || Alveolar || Postalveolar || Palatal || Velar
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| | Voiceless stops || /p/ || /t/ || || || /k/
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| | Voiced stops || /b/ || /d/ || || || /g/
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| | Voiceless affricates || /pf/ || /ts/ || /tʃ/ || ||
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| | Voiced affricates || || || /dʒ/ || ||
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| | Voiceless fricatives || /f/ || /s/ || /ʃ/ || /ç/ || [x]
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| | Voiced fricatives || /v/ || [z] || /ʒ/ || ||
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| | Nasals || /m/ || /n/ || || || /ŋ/
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| | Lateral || || /l/ || || ||
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| | Trill || || || || || /ʀ/ (uvular)
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| | Semivowel || || || || /j/ ||
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| [x] is an allophine of /ç/ that occurs after back vowels.
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| [z] is an allophone of /s/ that occurs between vowels.
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| ===Vowels===
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| Germanech has the vowels /a ɛ i ɔ u/ (spelled '''a é i o u''') plus the front rounded vowels /œ y/ (spelled '''ö ü''') and schwa (spelled '''e'''). The letter '''ä''' represents the same vowel as '''é'''; it is used where the vowel represents an
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| umlauted /a/.
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| ===Alphabet and pronunciation===
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| The alphabet of Germanech is the Latin alphabet with the special letters '''ä''', '''ö''' and '''ü''' (sorted as '''ae''', '''oe''', '''ue''', respectively). There is also an accented '''é''' (sorted as '''e''').
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| The consonants are pronounced as in English, with the following
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| exceptions:
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| | '''c''' || like ''sh'' before front vowels, like ''k'' elsewhere
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| | '''ch''' || as in German
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| | '''cj''' || always like ''sh''
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| | '''dj''' || like ''j'' in ''job''
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| | '''g''' || like ''s'' in ''measure'' before front vowels, like ''g'' in ''good'' elsewhere
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| | '''gj''' || like ''s'' in ''measure''
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| | '''gu''' || as in ''guitar'' before front vowels
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| | '''h''' || very lightly pronounced if at all
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| | '''j''' || like ''y'' in ''yes'' (but see '''cj''', '''dj''', '''gj''' and '''tj''')
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| | '''qu''' || like ''k'' before front vowels
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| | '''r''' || uvular ''r'' as in French
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| | '''s''' || always as in ''sing''
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| | '''tj''' || like ''ch'' in ''chin''
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| | '''x''' || the same as '''s'''
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| | '''z''' || the same as '''s'''
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| The vowels are pronounced as in German.
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| ===Accent===
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| Accent falls on the last full (non-schwa) vowel.
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| ==Morphology==
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| ===Articles===
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| Germanech has a definite and an indefinite article. The definite article is inflected for gender and number:
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| masc. sg. '''il''', masc. pl. '''los'''<br>
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| fem. sg. '''la''', fem. pl. '''las'''
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| The masculine definite article elides after prepositions that end in vowels:
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| '''a''' + '''il''' > '''al'''<br>
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| '''de''' + '''il''' > '''del'''
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| The indefinite genitive plural is expressed by the preposition '''des'''.
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| The indefinite article is the same for both genders:
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| sg. '''un''', pl. '''uns'''
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| Common nouns are always accompanied by an article, except mass nouns.
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| ===Nouns===
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| Nominal morphology in Germanech is rather simple.
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| There are two genders, ''masculine'' and ''feminine''. The Latin neuter has merged with the masculine.
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| The Latin case system has not survived in Germanech; thus, the noun is only inflected for number (''singular'' and ''plural''). The plural is indicated by the suffix '''-s''' ('''-es''' after '''s''', '''z''', '''tz''', '''cj''', '''dj''', '''gj''', '''tj'''). Examples:
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| '''brach''' 'arm', pl. '''brachs'''<br>
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| '''camer''' 'room', pl. '''camers'''<br>
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| '''cas''' 'house', pl. '''cases'''<br>
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| '''catz''' 'cat', pl. '''catzes'''
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| There are a few irregular plurals, e.g.
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| '''corfs''' 'body', pl. '''corfres'''<br>
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| '''pfazer''' 'father', pl. '''pfatres'''
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| [[Category:LLL]]
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| [[Category: Romance conlangs]]
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