Camonic

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Camonic
Spoken in: Chamonix, France
Conworld: JADE
Total speakers: ca. 200
Genealogical classification: Indo-European
Celtic
Gaulish
Camonic
Basic word order: SVO
Morphological type: fusional
Morphosyntactic alignment: accusative
Created by:
Jörg Rhiemeier 2020

Camonic is a conlang by Jörg Rhiemeier. It is a Continental Celtic language surviving in the Alps (vicinity of Chamonix, France). The language is one of Jörg's diachronic experiments. It is a reply on Arvorec; while Arvorec, which though purporting to be a Continental Celtic language shows the hallmarks of an Insular one, Camonic is designed not to resemble an Insular Celtic language, thus there are no initial mutation, no VSO word order, etc.


Phonology

Consonants

  Labial Alveolar Postalveolar Velar
Stops voiceless p t   k
voiced b d   g
Fricatives voiceless f s ch [ʃ]  
voiced v z j [ʒ]  
Flap   ḍ [ɾ]    
Nasals m n   [ŋ]
Liquids   l r    
  • [ŋ] is an allophone of /n/ before velars.

Vowels

  Front Back
Unround Round Unround Round
Close i u [y]   ou [u]
Mid e eu [ø]   o
Open ae [æ]   a  

All mid and open vowels can be nasalized, indicated by a letter n after the vowel.