Liroitian

Liroitian Liroitach
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 Liroitach /liˈrojtakʰ/ 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

Phonemic /v/ is only found word-initially and in consonant clusters.
/f/ and /s/ are voiced intervocalically.
Velar stops become palatal before /j/.

Vowels

Lirotian has a simple 5-vowel system of /a e i o u/ plus diphthongs /eu oi/.