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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
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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 | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | |
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 |