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Itëłan is a language, born to be a possible evolution of the today standard Italian language (with some Tuscan influence). It was created by adopting some phonetical rules of change, fixed in the language. Very few phonetical laws can deeply modify a language. And some morphological parts of the language underwent some analogical or redistributing change.

Phonetic changes

Vowels

Final vowels usually disappeared, and it opened the way for an important way of distinction: palatalization

• -o → falls
• -e → falls
• -i → falls, but it palatalized the previous consonant
• -a → -e
• -u → remains -u

• -io → -i, with palatalization of the previous consonant

Inside words, vowels underwent other kinds of changes:

• unstressed -a- became -ë-, if it is in syllables before the stressed one.
• open front vowel -e- became dipthong -ei-
• closed back vowel -o- became open back vowel -o-.
• dipthong -uo- became open back vowel -o-

Consonants

Differently from today Italian language, consonants developped a new way to distinguish among themselves: Palatalization.

The palatalization is a phonemic phenomenon that involves the tongue. The top point of the tongue gets higher than the normal position and the sound seems as the consonant would be followed by a soft "i". In fact consonants undergo palatalization only if in the past they was followed by an /i/.

But some consonants underwent some deeper changes. This was the case of palatalization of /s/, /t/, /d/ and /k/:

• -si- → -şi-
• -ti- → -çi-
• -di- → -ģi-
• -chi- → -çi-