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	-
o	/æ/ a	e	o	-
i	e	e	i	-
u	o	u	u	-
ê, î, oe	i	i	i	-
ô	/ɑ/ â	â	â	â
û	u	u	u	-

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	che
qu _{i,e}	k	g
nc _{i,e}		nz		nj		nj
sc _{i,e}	sh /ʃ/	sh	sh	she
x (cs)	sh	sh	sh	sh
g	g	gh /ɣ/	gh	gh	ga
g _{i,e}	j /dʒ/	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
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	-
mp		mb		mb

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

^  [2] Before a lost final front vowel.

Special contexts

liV, leV > yV

tiV, teV > sV

diV, deV > zV

niV, neV, miV, meV > nyV

riV, reV > zhV /ž/

ll > y

-cul-, -gul- > ly > y

viC > guC

-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.

In clusters 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 ž for ry is actually somewhat inaccurate. Lemontaigner as Râman writers choose this transcription in order to more clearly distinguish ry ژ from ri ري in Arabic script.