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Elbic is the language of the Principality of [[Elba]], an island off the coast of Tuscany. It is a Central and Southern Italian language, related to Neapolitan and Tuscan Italian. It has two sets of changes to initial consonants, similar to the mutations found in the Celtic consonants: the geminate mutation (also found in [[Wikipedia:Neapolitan|Neapolitan]]), and the gorgic mutation ([[Wikipedia:Tuscan gorgia|Tuscan Italian]]). | Elbic is the language of the Principality of [[Elba]], an island off the coast of Tuscany. It is a Central and Southern Italian language, related to Neapolitan and Tuscan Italian. It has two sets of changes to initial consonants, similar to the mutations found in the Celtic consonants: the geminate mutation (also found in [[Wikipedia:Neapolitan|Neapolitan]]), and the gorgic mutation ([[Wikipedia:Tuscan gorgia|Tuscan Italian]]). | ||
==Phonology and Orthography== | |||
The Elbic alphabet contains 37 distinct letters. There are 15 vowel letters representing ten sounds. Elbic has the following vowels: | |||
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{| style="text-align: center; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1pt solid #c0c0c0;" | |||
!colspan=11 style="text-align:center; background: #efefef;"| Vowels | |||
|- style="vertical-align: center; font-size: x-small; height: 2em" | |||
| ||colspan=2| Front ||colspan=2| Near-front ||colspan=2| Central ||colspan=2| Near-back ||colspan=2| Back | |||
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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| High || {{IPA|i}} || {{IPA|y}} || || || || || || || {{IPA|ɯ}} || {{IPA|u}} | |||
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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Near-high || || || || || || || || {{IPA|ʊ}} || || | |||
|- | |||
|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| High-mid || || || {{IPA|e}} || || || || || || || {{IPA|o}} | |||
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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Mid || || || || || {{IPA|ə}} | |||
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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Low-mid || || || {{IPA|ɛ}} || || || || || || || {{IPA|ɔ}} | |||
|- | |||
|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Near-low || || || {{IPA|æ}} | |||
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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Low || || || || || {{IPA|a}} | |||
|} | |||
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Revision as of 12:32, 21 May 2006
| Helvica | |
|---|---|
| Pronounced: | /ElvIk@/ |
| Timeline and Universe: | Ill Bethisad |
| Species: | Human |
| Spoken: | Elba |
| Total speakers: | 30,000 |
| Writing system: | Latin |
| Genealogy: | Indo-European Italic |
| Typology | |
| Morphological type: | Inflecting |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | Nominative-Accusative |
| Basic word order: | SVO |
| Credits | |
| Creator: | Sectori |
| Created: | May 2006 |
Elbic is the language of the Principality of Elba, an island off the coast of Tuscany. It is a Central and Southern Italian language, related to Neapolitan and Tuscan Italian. It has two sets of changes to initial consonants, similar to the mutations found in the Celtic consonants: the geminate mutation (also found in Neapolitan), and the gorgic mutation (Tuscan Italian).
Phonology and Orthography
The Elbic alphabet contains 37 distinct letters. There are 15 vowel letters representing ten sounds. Elbic has the following vowels:
| Vowels | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | ||||||
| High | i | y | ɯ | u | ||||||
| Near-high | ʊ | |||||||||
| High-mid | e | o | ||||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||||
| Low-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||||
| Near-low | æ | |||||||||
| Low | a | |||||||||
