Romorssiane

:For the branch of the languages Romorssiane falls in, check Solomorssiane. For the other variety, check Norvomorssiane.
Romorssiane is the fictitious national language of the Solomorssian Isles, and an agglutinative branch of Solomorssiane. First thought and devised by Rigel Sebastian, it is a semi-creole-type language, taking its roots from Romance, West Germanic, Crademic, and Greek languages, with quite a few English and French loanwords. Most importantly, Romorssiane's script has been mildly influenced by Latin, Cyrillic, Coptic, and Greek. It is the most widely-spoken as well as the national language of the Solomorssian Isles, and is also considered a nationally recognized language in countries such as Colombia, Guyana, and some Caribbean nation-states.
Romorssiane has abstract and unique linguistic roots; its grammar is based from and complicated like French and Latin; its alphabet system and phonology strongly connects to Cyrillic, Coptic, Latin, Greek (due to high variety of resonance from these cultures); it is influenced by ancestral languages like Old Crademian; and it is strongly linguistically associated to all aforementioned languages. Romorssiane as a language predates to the times of the Third Solomorssian Republic, where the Solomorssian Language Committee had tried to devise for a national language incorporating elements from the antique national culture, pre-dating the colonial era, as well as elements from other associated languages. It is also expectedly the most spoken Crademic languages in the 21st CE.
Romorssiane is one of the major languages of the world. It is the second most spoken native language within the North Atlantic Hemisphere, after English. Romorssiane is also widely taught as a foreign language, especially in Latin America, North America, and Europe as well, where it serves as the 10th most taught foreign language. The language has been influential in the fields of philosophy, theology, science, and technology.
Romorssiane is an inflected language, with 7 cases for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives (nominative, accusative, genitive, ablative, dative, vocative, locative); 4 genders (masculine, feminine, neuter, and epicene); and 4 numbers (singular, dual, trial, plural). It has strong and weak verbs. The majority of its vocabulary derives from Old Crademic, and a share is partly derived from Latin and French, along with fewer words borrowed from German, Greek, and Modern Standard English.
==Geographical Distribution ==
As a result of the Solomorssican Diaspora, as well as the popularity of Romorssiane taught as a foreign language, the geographical distribution of Solomorssiane speakers (or "Morssophones") spans all inhabited continents.
However, an exact, global number of native Romorssiane speakers is complicated by the existence of several varieties whose status as separate "languages" or "dialects" is disputed for political and linguistic reasons, including quantitatively strong varieties like certain forms of Gibralshirean and Decro-Crademian. With the inclusion or exclusion of certain varieties, it is estimated that approximately 220-225 million people speak Romorssiane as a first language, 100-110 million speak it as a second language, and 75–85 million as a foreign language. This would imply the existence of approximately 175–220 million Morssophones worldwide.
==Phonology==
===a. Phonemes===
====Consonants====
 	 	Labial 	Labio-Dental 	Dental 	Alveolar 	Alveolar 	Alveolar	Post-Alveolar	Palatal 	Velar 	Uvular	Glottal
 	 	Labial 	Labio-Dental 	Dental 	Central 	Lateral 	Labial 	Post-Alveolar	Palatal 	Velar 	Uvular	Glottal
Plosive 	Normal 	p b 	 	 	t d 	 	 	 	 	k g[a]	ɢ[a] 	ʔ
Plosive 	Aspirated[b]	bʰ 	 	 	tʰ dʰ	 	 	 	 	kʰ gʰ 	 	
Fricative	Fricative 	ɸ[a] β[a]	f[a] v[a]	θ ð	s z 	ɬ 	 	ʃ[a] ʒ 	ɕ[a] 	 	 	h
Affricate	Affricate 	 	ʋ[a] 	 	t͡s dz	tɬ dɮ	 	cɕ[a] 	tʃ[a] dʒ	kx[a][b] 	 	
Nasal 	Nasal 	m[a] 	 	 	n[a] 	 	n͡m[a] 	 	ɲ[a] 	ŋ[a][c] 	 	
Liquid 	Liquid 	 	 	 	ɾ 	l 	 	j 	 	w[a] 	 	
*[a]: These phonemes co-exist in their respective allophones.
*[b]: These phonemes no longer exist in Romorssiane, but are here in reference since they are still a part of Norvomorssiane.
*[c]: In most schools and educational/linguistic institution in the Solomorssian Isles, [ŋ] is sometimes not recognized as a part of Romorssiane phonology.
====Vowels====
 	Front 	Front 	Central	Back 	Back
 	Unrounded	Rounded 	Central	Unrounded	Rounded
Close 	ɪ i:	ʏ y	 	ɯ 	ʊ u:
Close-Mid	e: 	ø: 	 	o: 	
Mid 	 	 	ə 	 	
Open 	 	 	 	ɑː 	ɒ
Open-Mid 	ɛ 	ɛ: 	ɜ 	ɔ: 	ʌ
===c. Alphabet Chart===
Letter 	Sounds[IPA]	Name,Pronounciation 	Transliteration,English Equivalent	Notes
A a 	[a] 	Alorʒam, [a]English: Alef/Alfa 	a, art 	
Э э 	[æ] 	Эɰa, [æʃa]English: Aisha 	ae, archaeology 	
Ʌ ψ 	[ɛ] 	Ʌllorʒam, [ɛ]English: Aori 	a, fat 	
B b 	[b] 	Bolgaμ, [be]English: Beta 	b, ball 	
C ς 	[b] 	Cιρμэk, [si]English: Cigrek 	c, cell 	
Ч ч 	[tʃ/cɕ] 	Чэμэk, [aitʃ]English: Cherek 	ch, chair 	
D g 	[d] 	Daιmaμ, [ve]English: Delta 	d, dog 	
Đ ð 	[ð] 	Đaιmaμ, [ð]English: Dorn 	th, this 	
E e з	[e] 	Eskιmo, [e]English: Eskimo 	e, eel 	"з" is used as eskimo when the letter is utilized in last.
G ρ 	[f] 	Gazэɰ, [ef]English: Fawzi 	f, fishy 	Not to be confused with Gammarthe (see just below).
F f 	[g] 	Føμʒam, [gai]English: Gammarthe 	g, go 	
*Not to be confused with Fawzi (see just above).
*Lowercase Gammarthe is written differently.
H h 	[h] 	Haμpeμam, [ha]Romanized: Hesta 	h, hat 	
I ι 	[ɪ/i:] 	Iskemo, [ɪ:o]Romanized: Iota 	i, ditch 	
K k q	[k] 	Kellerson, [kaʊ]English: Krill 	k or c, sticky 	"q" is used as lowercase krill when the letter is utilized in first.
L l 	[l] 	Launderaison, [el]English: Lima 	l, long 	
Γ λ 	[ʎ] 	Lψmbdəμaιzon, [el]English: Lambda 	lli, quintillion 	
M m 	[m] 	Maιtμq, [mai]English: Mazon 	m, moist 	
N n 	[n] 	Novaιμo, [no]English: Novarthe 	n, new 	
И ɲ 	[ɲ] 	Иэμn, [no]English: Nyern 	ny, canyon 	
Ŋ ŋ 	[ŋ] 	Ŋuyэn, [eŋ]English: Nguyen 	ng, biting 	
O o 	[o] 	Oμэnþ, [no]English: Opsilon 	o, orangutan 	
Ø ø 	[ɒ] 	Øblan, [pai]English: Oblenth 	o, longitude 	
 П p 	[p] 	Пμэndэμaiμzon, [pai]English: Prenth	p, pattern 	There is no set rule for using either or П as the usage of uppercase prenth. It is recommended, however, that the italic case for the same shall be П.
L l 	[l] 	Løᶓeraizon, [el]English: Lima 	l, long 	
Γ λ 	[ʎ] 	Γψmbdəμaιzon, [el]English: Lambda 	(l)li, quintillion 	
S s 	[s] 	Sparɰo, [sa]English: Senth 	s, star 	
Ш ɰ 	[ʃ] 	Шιlιbønɰ, [ʃa]English: Shilich 	sh, sharpness 	
У у 	[u] 	Upsilon, [ʊ] 	oo, foot 	
Я μ 	[u] 	Røμc, [ɾ]English: Resh 	r, red 	
T τ 	[t] 	Taμfeμ, [ta]English: Tau 	t, tack 	
X x 	[kx] 	Xølэμson, [kxa]English: Krenth 	kh, khanate 	
θ þ 	[θ] 	θψnətøs, [θ]English: Theta 	th, thing 	
Ə ə 	[θ] 	Əɰwa, [ə]English: Schwa 	u, but 	
Ↄ ɓ 	[θ] 	Aɓvlenth, [ʔ]English: Stop/Avelenth	 	
 	 	 	 	
Ҩ ᶓ 	[ⁿd] 	Эᶓ, [æⁿd]English: End 	nd, sandbox 	This letter is only used in a syllabic coda.
==Dialects==
The Solomorssiane dialects are the traditional local varieties of the language; many of them are not mutually intelligible with standard Solomorssiane, and they have great differences in lexicon, phonology, and syntax. If a narrow definition of language based on mutual intelligibility is used, many Solomorssiane dialects are considered to be separate languages. However, such a point of view is unusual in Solomorssian linguistics.
The Solomorssiane dialect continuum is traditionally divided most broadly into High Solomorssiane or Gibralshirean and Low Solomorssiane or Decro-Crademian. However, historically, Gibralshirean dialects and Decro-Crademian dialects did not belong to the same language, primarily because of the separation of ruling dynasties during the native times. Nevertheless, in today's Solomorssian Isles, Decro-Crademian/Low Solomorssiane is often perceived as a dialectal variation of Standard Solomorssiane on a functional level, even by many native speakers.
The variation among the Solomorssiane dialects is considerable, with often only neighbouring dialects being mutually intelligible. Some dialects are not intelligible to people who know only Standard Solomorssiane. However, all Solomorssiane dialects belong to the dialect continuum of High Solomorssiane and Decro-Crademian.
Solomorssiane is estimated to have about 252 million native speakers; about 371 million daily, fluent speakers; and another 25–79 million secondary speakers who speak it as a second language to varying degrees of proficiency, mainly in South America and the Caribbean. According to the World Commonwealth Union, approximately 321 million people worldwide are "able to speak the language", without specifying the criteria for this estimation or whom it encompasses. According to a demographic projection led by the Universitas Solomarss and the Demographe aure la Resairc de Agence Universitas de la Solomarss, the total number of Solomorssiane speakers will reach approximately 500 million in 2025 and 650 million by 2050. WCU estimates 700 million by 2050, 20% of whom will be in South America.
==Grammar==
===a. Syntax===
*The language has a Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) word order. The verb and the object together form the predicate, which, along with the subject, are the 2 general constituents in Solomorssiane. 
**If adjectives and adverb-verb allocations are present in the subject, this entire subject becomes a subjectual phrase.
** Meanwhile, if in the predicate, the same happens with the object, the entire object becomes an objectual phrase. Also, if this same thing happens with the verb, the phrase formed is known as a verb-oriental phrase.
*The adjective(s) come before the noun until if the sentence is in the conditional tense.
**Also, if the adjective requires a verb to describe the subject/object, it acts like a verb of its own, but with different inflections.
***Incidentally, Cryptic Solomorssiane, an auxlang (auxiliary language) form of Solomorssiane, uses verbs directly to depict the description of the subject/object (i.e. the adjective) indirectly.
*For adpositions, they generally come before the noun (prepositions), and after the noun in the past and recent tenses.
*The possessor comes before the possessee using 's and after the possessee using of.
*The auxiliary verb(s) come(s) before the main verb.
===b. Noun Inflection===
====Cases====
There are 7 cases in Solomorssiane:
Case 	Indicates 	Sample Case Word/Term 	Sample Sentence 	Interrogative
Nomar(Nominative) 	Subject of a finite verb. 	Dezha (We) 	Dezha perevále de la magart.(We went to the store.) 	Who(m), or what?Qúora perevale de la magart?(Who went to the store?)
Aquisar(Accusative)	Direct object of a transitive verb. 	De Lon Dezhadel (For Us) 	Darth manerdé de lon dezhadel.(They waited for us.) 	For who(m)/what?Darth manerdé de lon quart?(They waited for whom?)
Volzhar(Dative) 	Indirect object of a verb. 	De Tor Dezhadel (To Us) 	Sol clerkos edozé une nefrango de tor dezhadel.(The clerk gave a discount to us.) 	To who(m)/what?Sol clerkos edozé une nefrango de tor quart?(The clerk gave a discount to whom?)
Āblar(Ablative) 	Movement away from. 	De Rom Dezhadel (From Us) 	Sol columbār volaré aufért de rom dezhadel(The pigeon flew away from us.) 	Whence, or from whom?Sol columbār volaré aufért de rom quart?(The pigeon flew away from whom?)
Zhenart(Genitive) 	Possessor of another noun. 	
*Var/Ver ('s)
*Dē (Of) 	Lauren ver libār vaté supar sol tablue.(Lauren's book was on the table.)
Solés specamōes dē sol libār verté jaune.(The pages of the book turned yellow.)	Whose, or of what?
Ver-dorze libār vaté supar sol tablue?(Whose book was on the table?)
Solés specamōes dē darth verté jaune?(The pages of what turned yellow?)
Vokarte(Vocative) 	Addressee. 	Lauren 	Jai min avoir pas, Lauren.(I don't know, Lauren) 	[UNSPECIFIED]
Lokarte(Locative) 	Location (both physical and temporal).	Sëns Sol Proche (In The Future)	Laisser dezhadel voirder darth serai fierter sëns sol proche.(Let us see what will happen in the future.)	Where(in)/When?
Quand serai nouissons qúora serai fierter?(When will we see what will happen?)
====Genders & Numbers ====
Solomorssiane has 3 genders: masculine, feminine, and neutral/neuter gender. Usually, the noun endings reveal the gender of the noun; For instance: 
*Nouns ending in -ār (libār, meaning book; mervār, meaning newspaper), -art (magart, meaning store/shop), -os (clerkos, meaning a male clerk), and -e (proche, meaning future) are masculine.
*Nouns ending in -aír (meraír, meaning novel; pouraír, meaning an alkaline), and -erg (verg, meaning air; mererg, meaning journal) are feminine.
* Nouns ending in -azh (gerazh, meaning garage; sermerazh, meaning semester), -o (nefrango meaning discount; àlbatro meaning albatross), and -ra (véra, meaning number; igéra, meaning ice) are of neuter gender.
On the contrary, Solomorssiane has 4 grammatical number ("gramber") systems: single, dual, trial, and plural.
*No change occurs to denote the single gramber system.
*To denote the dual gramber system, the conjugation "-ardo" is added at the end of the noun.
*To denote the trial gramber system, the conjugation "-atro" is added at the end of the noun.
*To denote the plural gramber system, the conjugation "-avros" is added at the end of the noun.
[Note that the gramber system conjugations come after the gender system conjugations.]
===c. Adjective Inflection===
====Auxiliary Adjectives====
In English, sentences like "I am happy." denote adjectives as a part, or action of an auxiliary verb. This means that the adjective is happening or has happened to the subject or object. Therefore, to denote this allocation, an auxiliary verb is place between the subject/object, and the adjective comes after this verb.
On the contrary, in Solomorssiane, adjectives can either directly qualify or state the qualities and/or quantity of the subject or object, or denote it as an action the same subject/object to gain the quality. This happens indirectly; For instance, to literally transliterate "I am happy." into Solomorssiane, the result would come as "I happies."
However, there is a different way to denote these "auxiliary adjectives", colloquially shortened to as "adjauxes". These are actually a different form of the main adjective—"happies", the hypothetical auxiliary adjective, is the (hypothetical) auxiliary form of the adjective "happy". Notice that in "happies", the "-y" is removed, and the "-ies" conjugation is added. This denotes pseudo-plurality of the adjective, and if no other auxiliary verb (be, been, or being) is present, the adjective is in the simple present tense, just like the original was, in the first instance.
===d. Verb Inflection===
====Tenses====
Tenses, in Solomorssiane, indicate the time period of when a verb is taking place. It inflects on the verb if it's action is still happened, has either already or just happened, will/would happen, etc. in Solomorssiane.
Majorly, tenses can be classified as per 3 basis:
*Time Period: Did the verb take place in the past, present or future?
*Degree/Aspectual: Did the verb take place simply, perfectly, or in continuous motion?
*Conditional/Hypothetical: Did the verb actually happened or was it just inculcated in a hypothetical condition?
Present Tense
Simple Present 	Description 	Sample Verb 	Sample Sentence 	Formation
Simple Present 	The simple present tense is when you use a verb to tell about things that happen continually in the present, like every day, every week, or every month.	scharper(to fly) 	Oúzhavavros scharper.(Birds fly.) 	The simple present is formed by just directly adding the verb, unchanged, after the subject.
Present Continuous 	Description 	Sample Verb 	Sample Sentence 	Formation
Present Continuous 	The present continuous verb tense indicates that an action or condition is happening now, frequently, and may continue into the future. 	novampeír(to renew)	Hôrt ést novampeírig sol lirál rompos.(He is renewing the entire story.) 	The present continuous is formed by first adding ést/sér, the conjugated form of être used for he-she-it/I-you-they, respectively, and then adding the continuous form of the verb, formed by adding the -ig conjugation to the intact form of the verb
Present Perfect 	Description 	Sample Verb 	Sample Sentence 	Formation
Present Perfect 	The present perfect tense is a verb tense used for past actions that are related to or continue into the present. 	sorzer(to suggest) 	Ja, jai vaurtes sorzé hôrt dezhadai brânde.(Yes, I have suggested him our brand.)	The present perfect is formed by first adding vaurtes (if the subject is I, you, we, they, or 2/more (pro)nouns) or vaurt(e) (for other subjects; the e regards with the gender) after the subject, and then adding the past particle of the verb (formed by removing the ir/er/re ending of the verb and adding é).
Present Perfect Continuous	Description 	Sample Verb 	Sample Sentence 	Formation
Present Perfect Continuous	The present perfect continuous tense shows that something started in the past and is still continuing at the present time. 	ravorter(to write) 	Vért vaurt êtrén ravorterig une éssart.(She has been writing an essay.) 	The present perfect continuous is formed by first adding vaurt(e) or vaurtes (as required) after the subject, and then adding êtrén, the past participle of être. The verb is then added in its continuous form.
Past Tense
Simple Past 	Description 	Sample Verb 	Sample Sentence 	Formation
Simple Past 	The simple past tense is when you use a verb to tell about things that have already happened sometime in the past. 	varter(to go) 	Hôrt varté profectus de lon un ambulār.(He went out for a walk.) 	The simple past is formed by directly adding the verb in its past participle form after the subject.
Past Continuous 	Description 	Sample Verb 	Sample Sentence 	Formation
Past Continuous 	The past continuous tense refers to those actions/events that were happening for a particular time in the past. 	schoiper(to shop) 	Nouissons étés schoipéig hier-aujourd.(We were shopping yesterday.) 	The past continuous is formed by adding the conjugated form of été and then adding the verb in its continuous form of its past participle, all after the subject.
Past Perfect 	Description 	Sample Verb 	Sample Sentence 	Formation
Past Perfect 	The past continuous tense tells us that an event happened in the past before another event in the past. 	kharzher(to charge) 	Jai vaurté été kharzhé sol lāpon.(I had charged the laptop.) 	The past perfect is formed by adding vaurté and then adding the verb in its past participle form, all after the subject.
Past Perfect Continuous	Description 	Sample Verb 	Sample Sentence 	Formation
Past Perfect Continuous	The past perfect continuous tense denotes an action that started in the past, continued in the past, and also ended at a certain point in the past. 	thunder(to struck, of lightning)	Sol lartaum vaurté êtrén thundéig descendrairūm de tor sol Terrair de lon un dūme.(The lightning had been striking down to the Earth for a while.)	The past perfect continuous is formed by first adding vaurté after the subject, and then adding êtrén, the past participle of être. The verb is then added in its past participle form, along with the -ig conjugation that denotes the continuous form of a verb.
Recent Past 	Description 	Sample Verb 	Sample Sentence 	Formation
Recent Past 	The recent past tense is used to denote assurance that the action denoted by a verb has already been done just some time ago (a minute, an hour, 20 seconds, etc.)	ablartir(to bake) 	Ja, Jai verarti ablarté sol cruzartement dix menutavrons agarte.(Yes, I just baked the cake 10 minutes ago.) 	The recent past is formed by adding "venarti" after the subject (which means 'just'), and then adding the past participle form after it.
Future Tense
Simple Future 	Description 	Sample Verb 	Sample Sentence 	Formation
Simple Future 	The simple future tense is used to refer to actions or states that begin and end in the future; These events have not happened yet, but will happen sometime in the future	occūrser(to meet) 	Jai êtrai occūrserai vértarel.(I will meet her.) 	The simple future is formed by adding the future participle of être, êtrai, and then adding the desired verb in its future participle, formed by adding the -ai conjugation after the verb.
Future Continuous	Description 	Sample Verb 	Sample Sentence 	Formation
Future Continuous	The future continuous tense is a verb tense that shows an action happening over a period of time in the future. 	visiter(to visit) 	Dezha êtrai être visiterai sol fontainum.(We will be visiting the fountain.) 	The future continuous is formed by adding adding the future participle of être, then être itself, and then adding the desired verb in its future participle.
Future Perfect 	Description 	Sample Verb 	Sample Sentence 	Formation
Future Perfect 	The future perfect is a verb form or construction used to describe an event that is expected or planned to happen before a time of reference in the future. 	normer(to normalize, of machinery)	Jai êtrai vaurtes normerai erauiravrons sol tablodo de von tôts-aujourd.(I will have normalized the tablet by tomorrow.)	The future continuous is formed by adding adding the future participle of être, then être itself, and then adding the desired verb in its future participle.
==Vocabulary==
Most Solomorssiabe vocabulary and lexicon is derived from the Crademic branch of the Crademic language family. However, there is a significant amount of loanwords from other languages, in particular Latin, Greek, French, and most recently English. In the early 19th CE, Johann Henry Campeche estimated that two 5th of the total Solomorssiae vocabulary was of French or Latin origin.
Latin words were already imported into the successor of the Old Crademic language during the Colonial Era and underwent all the characteristic phonetic changes in Solomorssiane. Their origin is thus no longer recognizable for most speakers. Borrowing from Latin continued after the independence of Solomorssian Isles, mediated by the Orientalists and Language Reformers. Another important influx of Latin words can be observed during the Solomorssian Renaissance. In a scholarly context, the borrowings from Latin have continued until today, in the last few decades often indirectly through borrowings from English. During the 15th to 17th CE, the influence of French was great, leading to many French loanwords in the fields of architecture, finance and music. The 19th CE in particular saw an even greater import of French words. The English influence was already present in the 19th CE century, but it did not become dominant until the second half of the 20th CE.
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