Romorssiane

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*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 has mildly been influenced in its script by Latin and Greeek. It is the most widely-spoken and nationally recognised language of the Solomorssian Isles, and considered a national languages of countries like Colombia, Guyana, and the Dominican Republic.

Romorssiane has abstract and unique linguistic roots; its grammar is based and complicated like French, its alphabet system and phonology strongly connects to Cyrillic, Latin, Greek (due to high variety of resonance from these cultured), it is influenced by ancestral languages like Old Crademian, and is linguistically strongly connected to Latin, French, and Greek. It is also unsurprisingly the most spoken Crademic languages in the 21st CE.

Romorssiane is one of the major languages of the world. It is the most spoken native language within the North Atlantic Hemisphere. Solomorssiane 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); 3 genders (masculine, feminine, neuter); 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 Greek, along with fewer words borrowed from French, German, Greek, and Modern (American & British) English.

## Geographical Distribution

As a result of the Solomorssican Diaspora, as well as the popularity of Solomorssiane taught as a foreign language, the geographical distribution of Solomorssiane speakers (or "*Morssophones*") spans all inhabited continents.

However, an exact, global number of native German 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. Consonants

* [a]: These phonemes co-exist in their respective allophones.
* [b]: These phonemes no longer exist in Romorssiane, but now are a part of Norvomorssiane.

## 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

#### 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**
 Present Continuous | Description
 The present continuous verb tense indicates that an action or condition is happening now, frequently, and may continue into the future.
 Present Perfect | Description
 The present perfect tense is a verb tense used for past actions that are related to or continue into the present.
 Present Perfect Continuous | Description
 The present perfect continuous tense shows that something started in the past and is still continuing at the present time.

**Past Tense**
 Past Continuous | Description
 The past continuous tense refers to those actions/events that were happening for a particular time in the past.
 Past Perfect | Description
 The past continuous tense tells us that an event happened in the past before another event in the past.
 Past Perfect Continuous | Description
 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.
 Recent Past | Description
 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.)

**Future Tense**
 Future Continuous | Description
 The future continuous tense is a verb tense that shows an action happening over a period of time in the future.
 Future Perfect | Description
 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.

## 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.