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[[Category:Brithenese]]
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[[Category:Romance]]

{{Infobox language
| name = ''Brithenese''
|-
| nativename = ''britheneyses, bridenaises''
| pronunciation = /bri.ðe.ˈnai.zəs/
|-
| creator = sjacik
| setting = ''Unnamed Alternate Timeline''
|-
| state = Scotland
| fam1 = [[w:Indo-European_languages|Indo-European]]
| fam2 = [[w:Italic_languages|Italic]]
| fam3 = [[w:Romance_languages|Romance]]
| fam4 = [[w:Western_Romance_Languages|Western Romance]]
| ancestor = [[w:Vulgar_Latin|Vulgar Latin]]
| notice = ipa
}}
Brithenese /brɪ.ðə.ˈniːz/ is an endangered Romance language spoken in central Scotland.

==Introduction==

Bridansh is spoken in the same world as Modern Gothic. The point of divergence is that around the 1st century AD, magic became real. Roughly speaking, from then until the 10th c. is the same. The 10th to 16th c. are marked by differences caused by the survival or death of various powers. While the 16th c. onward has become radically different.

In this timeline, the Romans were initially able to keep a small foothold in central England. However, due to the Anglo-Saxon invasion they were pushed out. The majority of British Romans went north into Scotland while a minority went west into Wales. The northern British were conquered by the kingdom of Strathclyde in 800s. The western British were conquered by various Welsh kingdoms soon after they migrated. Western Brithenese died in the Middle Ages in favor of Welsh.

There are two competing spelling systems. The first is the traditional style, and it is based off of Early Modern English / Scots. (NOTE: find a way to describe the second)

=== Phonological History ===
One defining feature of Brithenese is that unlike every other language descended from Vulgar Latin, the Classical vowels /a/ and /a:/ did not merge and instead became /a/ and /ɔ/. Compare French chanter and Jacques to Brithenese chantor|chentor /tʃən.ˈtor/ and Jegows|Jègaus /dʒe.ˈgaus/.

==Phonology==
=== Consonants ===
{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center
|-
! !! Labial !! Dental !! Alveolar !! Post-alveolar !! Dorsal
|-
| Nasal || m ||  || n<sup>1</sup> ||  || (ŋ)<sup>2</sup>
|-
| Plosive ||  p b || t d ||  ||  || k g
|-
| Affricate ||  ||  ||  || tʃ dʒ ||
|-
| Fricative || f<sup>3</sup> v || θ<sup>3</sup> ð || s<sup>3</sup> (z)<sup>4</sup> || ʃ<sup>3</sup> ʒ || h<sup>5</sup>
|-
| Approximant ||  ||  || l  ||  || j<sup>6</sup>
|-
| Rhotic ||  ||  || r<sup>7</sup> ||  ||
|}

'''Notes:'''

<sup>1</sup> /n/ assimilates to the same point of articulation as the following consonant, yielding values of [m] [n̪] [n̺] [n̠] [ŋ] <br>
<sup>2</sup> /ŋ/ is found only before the velar stops <br>
<sup>3</sup> Voiceless fricatives are voiced between vowels, yielding [v] [ð] [z] [ʒ] <br>
<sup>4</sup> /z/ is only found between vowels <br>
<sup>5</sup> /h/ is a glottal fricative with variable voicing, frequently becoming [ɦ] <br>
<sup>6</sup> /j/ is a voiced palatal approximant <br>
<sup>7</sup> /r/ is traditionally a trill, but both an approximant [ɹ] and a tap [ɾ] are not unheard. <br>

=== Vowels ===
{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center
|-
! !! scope="colgroup" colspan="2" | Front !! Central !!  scope="colgroup" colspan="2" | Back
|-
| || Unrounded || Rounded ||  || Unrounded || Rounded
|-
| Close || i || y<sup>1</sup> ||  || ɯ<sup>2</sup> || u
|-
| Mid || e || ø<sup>3</sup> || ə || ɤ || o
|-
| Open ||  ||  || a ||  ||
|}

'''Notes:'''

<sup>1</sup> /y/ is a close front vowel with compressed rounding, \[iᵝ] <br>
<sup>2</sup> /ɯ/ is in the process of merging with /ɤ/ <br>
<sup>3</sup> /ø/ is a mid front vowel with compressed rounding, \[eᵝ], although it is frequently unrounded merging it with /e/ <br>

===Prosody===
====Stress====
====Intonation====

== Orthography ==
=== Traditional ===
==== Consonants ====


==== Vowels ====
{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center
|-
! !! scope="colgroup" colspan="2" | Front !! Central !!  scope="colgroup" colspan="2" | Back
|-
| || Unrounded || Rounded ||  || Unrounded || Rounded
|-
| Close || i, ey, ie || ew, i ||  || ui, u || ou, u
|-
| Mid || e, a(C)e, ei, ai || eu, u || a || oi || o, oa, ow
|-
| Open ||  ||  || a, aw ||  ||
|}

=== Modern ===
==== Consonants ====


==== Vowels ====
{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center
|-
! !! scope="colgroup" colspan="2" | Front !! Central !!  scope="colgroup" colspan="2" | Back
|-
| || Unrounded || Rounded ||  || Unrounded || Rounded
|-
| Close || i || u ||  || ui || ou
|-
| Mid || e,  è || eu || e || oi || o
|-
| Open ||  ||  || a ||  ||
|}

== Syntax ==
=== Nouns ===
Nouns have two genders, masculine and feminine, and two numbers, singular and plural.

=== Articles ===
Articles agree with the object they modify in gender, number, and case.
The Genitive form of the definite article is also used as a partitive article.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
| yee || chat || chave || jae || mewrs
|-
| li || chat || ceve || diès || murs
|-
| ji || tʃat || tʃev || dʒes || myrs
|-
| DEF.NOM.M.SG || cat.M.SG || catch.PRS.SG || DEF.GEN.F.PL || mouse.F-PL
|-
| The || cat || catches || (some) || mice
|}

=== Adverbs ===


=== Prepositions ===


=== Pronouns ===
==== Stressed ====


==== Unstressed ====


=== Verbs ===
==== Finite Forms ====


==== Infinite Forms ====


==== Voice ====


==== Mood ====


== Morphology ==
=== Nouns ===


=== Articles ===
==== Indefinite ====
{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center
|-
! !! scope="colgroup" colspan="2" | Singular !! scope="colgroup" colspan="2" | Plural
|-
| || Masculine || Feminine / Neuter || Masculine || Feminine / Neuter
|-
| Nominative || ewns / ins || scope="colgroup" colspan="3" | ewn / in
|-
| Accusative || scope="colgroup" colspan="2" | ewn / in || ewns / ins || ewn / in
|-
| Dative || scope="colgroup" colspan="2" | eyn / en || eyns / ens || eyn / en
|-
| Genitive || scope="colgroup" colspan="2" | juin / jeun || juins / jeuns || juin / jeun
|}

==== Definite ====
{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center
|-
! !! scope="colgroup" colspan="2" | Singular !! scope="colgroup" colspan="2" | Plural
|-
| || Masculine || Feminine / Neuter || Masculine || Feminine / Neuter
|-
| Nominative || yee / li || ya / lie || scope="colgroup" colspan="2" | yee / li
|-
| Accusative || you / liou || ya / lie || yous / lious || yoss / lios
|-
| Dative || scope="colgroup" colspan="2" | eel / il || scope="colgroup" colspan="2" | eels / ils
|-
| Genitive || scope="colgroup" colspan="2" | jay / diè || scope="colgroup" colspan="2" | jays / diès
|}

The Genitive case is used as a partitive article


=== Adjectives ===


=== Demonstratives ===
==== Proximal ====


==== Distal ====


=== Adverbs ===


=== Prepositions ===


=== Pronouns ===


=== Verbs ===
==== First Conjugation ====
===== Finite Forms =====


===== Infinite Forms =====


==== Second Conjugation ====
===== Finite Forms =====


===== Infinite Forms =====


==== Third Conjugation ====
===== Finite Forms =====


===== Infinite Forms =====