Fortunatian

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Fortunatian is a Romance language, with Etruscan and Guanche substrates, spoken in the Fortunate Islands (our world's Canary Islands). This is a description of Classical Fortunatian (fl. 12c ACE).

Phonology

The Fortunatian alphabet has 21 letters. There are also four digraphs which are not considered part of the alphabet, but probably should be.

a [a] b [b] c [k] before /a/, /o/, /u/, /y/ d [d] e [e, E] g [d_Z] f [f] h [etymological, or diaeresis marker] i [i], [j] before another vowel m [m] n [n] o [8] p [p] qu [k] before /e/, /i/ r [r] s [s] t [t] u [u] x [S] y [1]

Non-Alphabetic Digraphs au [o] ch [t_S] hu [w] - this can (rarely) occur before a consonant nh [J]