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Revision as of 18:52, 7 April 2011

Liroitian
Liroitakh
Spoken in: Italy (Italya)
Conworld: League of Lost Languages
Total speakers: ~100
Genealogical classification: Isolate
Isolate
Liroitian
Liroitian
Basic word order: SOV
Morphological type: Agglutinative
Morphosyntactic alignment: Accusative
Writing system:
Created by:
Taylor Selseth 2011 C.E.

Liroitian /lɪˈɹɔɪʃən/, native Liroitak /liˈrojtak/ is a highly endangered isolate language spoken by a handful of people in northwestern Italy. It is similar typologically to Bausque, being agglutinative, SVO, and head-final, but no relation is apparent.

Phonology

Phoneme Inventory

The most notable aspect of Liroitian's consonant inventory is a 3-way voicing-aspiration contrast not unlike Ancient Greek.

Consonants

IPA

Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar
Stops, Plain p t k
Stops, aspirated
Stops, Voiced b d g
Nasals m n
Fricatives, unvoiced f s
Fricatives, voiced v
Approximants l j
Trills r

Orthography

Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar
Stops, Plain p t c
Stops, aspirated ph th ch
Stops, Voiced b d g
Nasals m n
Fricatives, unvoiced f s
Fricatives, voiced v
Approximants l y
Trills r