Roman Germanech

Germanech
Spoken in:	Germany
Timeline/Universe:	League of Lost Languages
Total speakers:	ca. 5,000
Genealogical classification:	Indo-European  Italic   Romance    Western Romance     Germanech

Germanech ([ZER'manEC], also known as Mosel Romance) is a conlang invented by Jörg Rhiemeier. It is a Romance language of Germany which was inspired by Andrew Smith's Brithenig. In the world of the League of Lost Languages, it is spoken in a few villages in the vicinity of Trier, Germany.

Germanech has undergone certain sound changes similar to the ones of German, including the High German consonant shift and i-umlaut. Otherwise, it is a pretty normal Romance language without any "cool" features.

Phonology

Consonants

Germanech has the following consonant phonemes:

	Labial	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar
Voiceless stops	/p/	/t/			/k/
Voiced stops	/b/	/d/			/g/
Voiceless affricates	/pf/	/ts/	/tS/
Voiced affricates			/dZ/
Voiceless fricatives	/f/	/s/	/S/	/C/	[x]
Voiced fricatives	/v/		/Z/
Nasals	/m/	/n/			/N/
Lateral		/l/
Trill					/R/ (uvular)
Semivowel				/j/

[x] is an allophine of /C/ that occurs after back vowels.

Vowels

Germanech has the vowels /a e i o u/ plus the front rounded vowels /ö ü/. The letter ä represents the same vowel as e; it is used where the vowel represents an umlauted /a/.

Alphabet and pronunciation

The consonants are pronounced as in English, with the following exceptions:

c	like sh before front vowels, like k elsewhere
ch	as in German
cj	always like sh
dj	like j in job
g	like s in measure before front vowels, like g in good elsewhere
gj	like s in measure
gu	as in guitar before front vowels
h	very lightly pronounced if at all
j	like y in yes (but see cj, dj, gj and tj)
qu	like k before front vowels
r	uvular r as in French
s	always as in sing
tj	like ch in chin
x	the same as s
z	the same as s

The vowels are pronounced as in German.

Accent

Accent falls on the last non-e vowel, unless there is an e with an acute accent (é), in which case the latter is stressed.