Oriente

Oriente is a language in an alternate world where the Roman Empire never split into East and West and was never fully conquered by barbarians, spoken by people in Southeastern Germania, mostly in Austro-Germania. It was formed as a lingua franca between the many Celtic towns that mixed their own tribal languages with Latin.

Phonology and Orthography

Oriente uses 24 Latin letters: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, X, Y, and Z.

Letter(s)	IPA	Notes
A	/a/	between father and cat
AE	/ai̯/	as in guy, flight
AU	/au̯/	as in cow
B	/b/
C	/k/	as in cat
CH	/x/	as in Scottish loch
D	/d/	Example
E	/e/	as in egg
EI	/ei̯/	as in play
F	/f/
G	/g/	as in goal
H	/h/	as in house
I	/i/, /ɪ/, /j/	as in keep, sometimes as in hit, as in yes at start of word
K	/k/
L	/l/
M	/m/
N	/n/	as in night
O	/o/	as in go
P	/p/
QU	/kʷ	as in queen
R	/r/	as in rock, usually untrilled
S	/s~ʃ/	as in sea, sometimes gliding into she
T	/t/, /θ/	as in tie, sometimes thick in loanwords
U	/u/, /ʊ/	as in loop, sometimes as in put
V	/v/
X	/ks/	as in box
Y	/i/, /ɪ/, /j/	exact same as I, less common replacement
Z	/z/

Grammar

Oriente's grammar is generally considered an Eastern simplification of Latin.

Nouns

Oriente has 2 genders (Common and Neuter), 4 cases (Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, and Dative), and 2 numbers (singular and plural).

The Common Gender

The Common Gender is a merger and simplification of Latin's Masculine and Feminine genders.

	Decl. 1	pl	Decl. 2	pl	Decl. 3	pl
Nominative	lupa	lupae	patre	patres	vir	virs
Genitive	lupae	luparum	patris	paterum	virei	virum
Accusative	lupem	lupes	patrem	patres	virem	virs
Dative	lupae	lupis	patri	patribus	viri	viribus

The Neuter Gender

	o-stem	pl	i-stem	pl	u-stem	pl
Nominative	servum	servos	principium	principios	bellum	bellua
Genitive	servi	servorum	principii	principium	belli	bellurum
Accusative	servum	servos	principium	principios	bellum	bellua
Dative	servo	servis	principio	principibus	bellu	bellus

Irregular Noun: tempus

These are the declensions of the o-stem neuter noun meaning "time". This also applies to the nouns corpus, onus, andopus.

	singular	plural
Nom	tempus	tempos
Gen	tempori	temporum
Acc	tempus	tempos
Dat	tempo	temporis

Pronouns

Personal Pronouns

	1st sg	1st pl	2nd sg	2nd pl	3rd sg (common)	(feminine)	(neuter)	3rd pl	indefinite
Nominative	iho	ni	ti	vi	is	ea	id	si	one
Genitive	mi-	nostr-	tu-	vostr-	i-	i-	i-	si-	onis
Accusative	me	nos	te	vos	iem	eam	id	sios	onem
Dative	mihi	nis	tibi	vis	ii	eae	id	siis	oni

Demonstratives

	singular	plural
Proximal	hoc	haec
Medial	das	dies
Distal	dos	dies

Adjectives

Normal Adjective Declensions

	Common sg	Common pl	Neuter sg	Neuter pl
Nominative	prime	primes	primo/um	primos
Genitive	primis	primerum	primi	primorum
Accusative	primem	primes	primo/um	primos
Dative	primi	primibus	primo/um	primis

Articles

Definite Article

	Common sg	Common pl	Neuter sg	Neuter pl
Nominative	die	dies	dio/um	dios
Genitive	deis	dierum	dei	diorum
Accusative	diem	dies	dio/um	dios
Dative	dei	deis	dio/um	deis

Indefinite Article

	Common sg	Neuter sg	pl
Nominative	ine	inum	⸺
Genitive	⸺	⸺	⸺
Accusative	inem	inum	⸺
Dative	ini	inum	⸺

Verbs

Verbs conjugate based on tense (pluperfect, perfect, imperfect, present, future, and future perfect), voice (active and passive), person (1st, 2nd, and 3rd), and number (singular and plural). 2nd person singular and 2nd person plural verbs are exactly the same. There is also an imperative aspect with only three forms.

Imperative Aspect

	Singular	Plural
1st person	⸺	ameamus
2nd person	ama	amate

Example Texts

The Lord's Prayer

Oriente	English
Patre Nostre, quae is in chaelo,	Our Father, who art in heaven,
Sanctifetur nomine tue.	Hallowed be thy name.
Veniat rechnum tuum,	Thy kingdom come,
Fertiat voluntat tue,	Thy will be done,
Ut in caelo et quoque an terrae.	On earth as it is in heaven.