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||Stops, Voiced||'''b'''||'''d'''|| | ||Stops, Voiced||'''b'''||'''d'''|| ||'''g''' | ||
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Revision as of 18:52, 7 April 2011
| Liroitian Liroitakh | |
| Spoken in: | Italy (Italya) |
| Conworld: | League of Lost Languages |
| Total speakers: | ~100 |
| Genealogical classification: | Isolate
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| Basic word order: | SOV |
| Morphological type: | Agglutinative |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | Accusative |
| Writing system: | |
| Created by: | |
| Taylor Selseth | 2011 C.E. |
Liroitian /lɪˈɹɔɪʃən/, native Liroitak /liˈrojtak/ is a highly endangered isolate language spoken by a handful of people in northwestern Italy. It is similar typologically to Bausque, being agglutinative, SVO, and head-final, but no relation is apparent.
Phonology
Phoneme Inventory
The most notable aspect of Liroitian's consonant inventory is a 3-way voicing-aspiration contrast not unlike Ancient Greek.
Consonants
IPA
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |
| Stops, Plain | p | t | k | |
| Stops, aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | |
| Stops, Voiced | b | d | g | |
| Nasals | m | n | ||
| Fricatives, unvoiced | f | s | ||
| Fricatives, voiced | v | |||
| Approximants | l | j | ||
| Trills | r |
Orthography
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |
| Stops, Plain | p | t | c | |
| Stops, aspirated | ph | th | ch | |
| Stops, Voiced | b | d | g | |
| Nasals | m | n | ||
| Fricatives, unvoiced | f | s | ||
| Fricatives, voiced | v | |||
| Approximants | l | y | ||
| Trills | r |
