Olivarian

Vulgariano
Pronunciation:	[vulgaɾiˈano]
Spoken in:	Vulgaria, Sea of Sardinia
Coordinates :	(may not appear in some maps) [1]
Total speakers:	80,000
Language family:	Romance language
Distribution:

Vulgarian (or lingua vulgariana) is a Romance language spoken as a native language by about 80 thousand people in the Island of Vulgaria, in the Sea of Sardinia.

Vulgarian derives diachronically from Latin. It is extremely conservative in comparison to some other Romance languages.

Writing system

Alphabet

Vulgarian is written with the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet, with four diacritics appearing on vowels (circumflex accent, acute accent, grave accent, diaeresis), the t-comma (ț) and the s-comma (ș).

Letters typically have the same values as in the International Phonetic Alphabet. Further details are explained below.

Diacritics

• The acute accent and the grave accent indicate that a vowel is stressed, and also the quality of the accented vowel, more precisely its height: é (/e/), í (/i/), ó (/o/), ú (/u/), and ý (/i/) are stressed high vowels, while à (/a/), è (/ɛ/), and ò (/ɔ/) are stressed low vowels.
• The circumflex accent (<ê> and <ô>) appears in the roots of some verbs. They don't indicate word stress, but when that vowel becomes stressed (in some persons of the present, for example), then it indicates a low vowel (/ɛ/ and /ɔ/).
• The diaresis (over ü) appears in the digraph qü before e or i and indicates a voiced labiovelar approximant (/w/) in standard pronunciation. Over the dialects, it can also be silent or pronounced as [v], especially in Lenòmia.
• T-comma ‹ț› represents the voiceless alveolar affricate (/ts/). S-comma <ș> represents the voiceless post-alveolar fricative (/ʃ/).

Digraphs

• CH: voiceless velar plosive (/k/).
• GH: voiced velar plosive (/g/).
• GU: represents the voiced velar plosive plus (/g/) plus a voiced labiovelar approximant (/w/) before vowels. Elsewhere, it is pronounced /gu/.
• LH: palatal lateral approximant (/ʎ/).
• NH: palatal nasal (/ɲ/).
• PH: voiceless labiodental fricative (/f/).
• QU: occurs before e and i and represents the voiceless velar plosive (/k/).
• QÜ: occurs before e and i and represents the voiced velar plosive plus (/k/) plus a voiced labiovelar approximant (/w/).
• RR: occurs between vowels and represents the alveolar trill (/r/).
• SS: occurs between vowels and represents the voiceless alveolar sibilant (/s/).
• TH: represents the voiceless alveolar plosive (/t/).
• ZZ: represents the voiceless alveolar affricate (/ts/).

Double letters

With exception of rr, ss, and zz, mentioned above, double letters are pronounced as if they were single letters.

Letters whose pronunciation depend on adjacent letters in the word

• C: voiceless postalveolar affricate before e and i (/tʃ/); voiceless velar plosive elsewhere (/k/).
• G: voiced postalveolar affricate before e and i (/dʒ/); voiced velar plosive elsewhere (/g/).
• QU: voiceless velar plosive followed by a voiced labiovelar approximant (/kw/), except in the combinations <que> and <qui>, pronounced /ke/ and /ki/.
• R: alveolar tap (/ɾ/) after vowels; alveolar trill elsewhere (/r/).
• S: voiced alveolar sibilant (/z/) between vowels; voiceless alveolar sibilant elsewhere (/s/).

Other letters that differ from IPA

• H: when it is not part of a digraph, it is silent.
• J: voiced postalveolar fricative (/ʒ/).
• W: voiced labiovelar approximant (/w/) or close back rounded vowel (/u/).
• X: velar plosive plus alveolar sibilant. Voiced between vowels (/gz/), unvoiced elsewhere (/ks/).
• Y: palatal approximant (/j/> or close front unrounded vowel (/i/).
• Z: voiced alveolar affricate (/dz/).

Stress and accentuation

The default stress is on the penultimate (next-to-last) syllable on words that end in a vowel, ‹n› or ‹s› and on the final syllable when the word ends in any consonant other than ‹n› or ‹s›. Words that do not follow the default stress have an accent over the stressed vowel. Such an accent can be acute, for low vowels, or grave, for high vowels.

Vulgarian rules count syllables, not vowels, to assign written accents. A syllable is of the form XaXX, where X represents a consonant, permissible consonant blend, or no sound at all and a represents a vowel, diphthong, or triphthong. Diphthongs and triphthongs are any combination of two and three vowels, respectively. Hence, Vulgarian writes familia (ending with a diphthong) but línea (the default stress would be on e as it does not form a diphthong).

Furthermore, the high vowels è and ò always have a grave accent in stressed position, even when the stress is understood, as in pède or nòvo. If not specifically marked, the stressed vowels e and o are otherwise low by default.

Phonology

In this section, the phonology of the standard dialect is described.

Vowels

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Close-mid	e	o
Open-mid	ɛ	ɔ
Open	a

1. While Vulgarian contrasts close-mid (/e o/) and open-mid (/ɛ ɔ/) vowels in stressed syllables, they are in free variation when unstressed.

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio- dental	Dental/ Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal	m		n		ɲ
Plosive	p b		t d			k g
Fricative		f v	s z	ʃ ʒ
Affricate			ts dz	tʃ dʒ
Approximant					j	w
Trill			r
Tap			ɾ
Lateral			l		ʎ

1. Nasals assimilate to the point of articulation of whatever consonant they precede. For example, /nɡ/ is realized as [ŋɡ].

Grammar

Verbs

Every Vulgarian verb belongs to one of three form classes, characterized by the infinitive ending: -are, -ere, or -ire— sometimes called the first, second, third and the fourth "conjugations", respectively.

Sample texts

Declarațione Universale de'llos Direċtos Humanos

Artículu Unu

Totos illos èsseres humanos nascont líberos et eguales in dignitate et in direċtos. Sunt dotatos de rațione et de conscienția et debent comportar-se illos unos cum illos altros in spíritu de fraternitate.

Articulu Duos

Totas las personas se possont prevalere de'llos direċtos et las libertates proclamatos in ella presente Declarațione, sin nulla distincțione, notatamente, de rața, de colore, de sexu, de lingua, de religione, de opinione política oud qualsíat altra, de orígine naționale oud sociale, de fortuna, de nascența oud qualsíat altra situațione. Fòra de acuéstu, non seràt facta nulla distincțione fundata in illu statutu políticu, jurídicu oud internaționale de'llu paese a'llu quale una persona appertènet, siat acuéstu paese oud territoriu independente, subtu tutela, non autònomu oud subiectu ad qualsíta altra limitațione de suberanitate.

Artículu Trés

Totu individuu hat direċtu a'lla vita, a'lla libertate et a'lla securitate de sua persona.

Artículu Quattro

Nulla persona seràt mantenuta in sclavitúdine oud in servitúdine; la sclavitúdine et illu commerciu de sclavos sunt prohibitos subtu totas las suas formas.

Artículu Cinque

Nulla persona seràt submissa ad tortura oud tractamentos oud ad puniționes crudeles, inhumanos oud degradantes.

Artículu Sex

Totu individuu hat illu direċtu, in totos locales, a'llu reconnoscimentu de sua personalitate jurídica.

Artículu Septe

Totos sunt eguales abante la lege et haunt direċtu, sin distincțione, ad eguale protecțione de'lla lege. Totos haunt direċtu ad una eguale protecțione contra qualsíat discriminațione que viòlet la presente Declarațione et contra qualsíat provocațione ad tale discriminațione.

Artículu Oċto

Tota persona hat direċtu ad un recursu effectivu abante las juristicționes naționales competentes contra illos actos que viòlent illos direċtos fundamentales reconnoscutos per la constituțione oud per la lege.

Artículu Noue

Nulla persona pòtet èssere arbitrariamente arrestata, detenuta oud exiliata.

Artículu Dèce

Tota persona hat direċtu, in condiționes de plena egualitate, ad èssere equitativa et publicamente audita per un tribunale independente et imparțiale, per la determinațione siat de suos direċtos et obligaționes, siat per illu exàmine de qualsíat accusațione in matèria penale contra élla.

La Turrem de Babel

Intunque tota la terra habeva una sola lingua et las metísimas parablas. Quando partieront de'llu oriente, incontraront una planura in illu paese de Senar et allà se stablieront. Et dísseront illos unos a'llos altros: Venitis, fàciamos bloccos et còcamo-los cum fòcu. Et illos bloccos lis servieront de pètra et illu bitume de cementu. Appòst dísseront: Venitis, constrúamo-nos una ciutate et una turrem, illu cúlmine de'lla quale arribet a'llu cèlu, et fàciamo-nos famosos, ad fine de vedere la ciutate et la turrem que illos filĭos de'llos hòmines construevant. Et illu Senĭore disset: Illes sunt un solu pòpulu et parlant una sola lingua: acuéstu est illu que comințiaront fàcere. Ahora nullu los restrigeràt de fàcere totu que se proponant. Intunque descèndamos et confúndamos lòru lingua, ad fine de que non compreendant mais la lingua illos unos de'llos altros. Et illu Senĭore los dispersaut de allà supre tota la terra; et cessaront de constrúere la ciutate. Per acuéstu, acuésta ciutate se clamaut Babel, per que allà illu Senĭore confuset la lingua de tota la terra, et de allà illu Senĭore los dispersaut supre tota la terra.

Illu Diminutu Príncipe

Quando habeva sex annos, vedui, una vece, una magnífica imàgine, in un libru supre la foresta vírgine que se clamabat "Històrias Vivutas". Acuéstu representabat una serpente boa que ingluttibat una fèra. Acuésta èst la copia de'llu designu:

Se diceva in illu libru: "Las serpentes boas ingluttont lòru preda tota intègra, sin masticar-la. Appòst non possont mais mover-se et dormont durante illos sex meses de lòru digestione".

Reflexi multu intunque supre las adventuras de'lla jungla et, ad mea vece, reexíi, cun un làpize de colore, ad tracciare meun primu designu. Èra assí:

Monstrai mea òpera maistra a'llas personas grandes e lis questionaba si meun designu lis faceva pavore.

Éllas me respònseront: "Per que un capellu farea pavore?"

Meun designu non representabat un capellu. Representabat una serpente boa que digerevat un elephante. Intunque disegnai illu interiore de'lla boa, per que las personas grandes potuissent compreèndere. Sempre necessitant explicaționes.

Sànscritu

La lingua sànscrita, qualsía sua antiquitate, est de una structura meravilĭosa; mais perfecta ca illu grècu, mais rica ca illu latine et mais exquisitamente refinata que totas las duas, sibenque hat cun las duas una affinitate mais forte, tantu in las radices de'llos verbos quanto in ellas formas de grammàtica, ca potereat habere statu productu per accidente. Tan forte, in factu, que nullu philòlogu potereat examinare totas las trés, sin crédere que se originaront de una fonte commune que, pòte èssere, non mais existe. Ivi hat una raţione similare, sibenque non tan forte, per pressupónere que tanto illu gòthicu quanto illu celta, sibenque mesclatos cun una lingua multu differente, habiant illu metísimu orígine que illu sànscritu; et illu antiquu persa poterea èssere aggregatu a'lla metísima familia.