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==Introduction==
Designed to be like an evolved and collapsed Pan-Romance language in ~2200s. Anyone can add to or help!

==Phonology==
Again, designed to have evolved from a simple, easy sound system that slowly collapsed into something more colloquial and complex.
===Vowel inventory===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Unstressed medial
|-
| Close-mid || ɪ {i} || ʊ {u}
|-
| Mid || ə {e} || ɤ {ö}
|-
| Open-mid || ɐ {a}
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Stressed medial/initial/final
|-
| Close-mid || ɪ~i {i} || u {u}
|-
| Mid || e {e/é} || ɔ {o}
|-
| Open-mid || ɐ {a}
|}
===Consonant inventory===
===Syllable structure===
===Stress===
Stress generally rests on the vowel before the final consonant.
===Orthography===

===Phonotactics===
==Morphology==
=== Nouns ===
Nouns do not inflect for case, but do have number distinction, and in some cases natural gender.
===Pronouns===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Non-clitic personal pronouns
|-
!!! Nominative !! Possessive<sup>1</sup> !! Accusative !! Dative !! Prepositional
|-
| 1st person sg || eu || mio || me || mi || mi
|-
| 1st person pl || nos || nosto || nos || nosis || noso
|-
| 2nd person sg || tu/vos<sup>2</sup> || tio/vosto || te/vos || ti/vosi || ti/voso
|-
| 2nd person pl || vosos/vosas<sup>3</sup> || vosto || vosos/vosas || vosis || voso
|-
| 3rd person sg || e/éa/o || so || e/éa/o, se<sup>4</sup> || i, si<sup>4</sup> || e/éa/o, si<sup>4</sup>
|-
| 3rd person pl || éos/éas<sup>3</sup> || lio || los/las, se<sup>4</sup> || is, si<sup>4</sup> || eso, si<sup>4</sup>
|}
<sup>1</sup>Non-clitic possessive pronouns inflect like adjectives. Example: mio fil = my son, fila mia = my daughter, mios filos = my children
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<sup>2</sup>T-V distinction is only expressed in the singular.
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<sup>3</sup>In these cases, distinction is made between the masculine plural and feminine plural. Masculine is used to refer to any group that is not completely feminine.
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<sup>4</sup>Reflexive
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Enclitic pronouns
|-
!!! Subject !! Possessive !! Object<sup>1</sup>
|-
| 1st person sg || mi || mi || me, m'
|-
| 1st person pl || ni || nu || nos
|-
| 2nd person sg || ti || ti || te, t'
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| 2nd person pl || vi || vu || vos
|-
| 3rd person sg || - || si || i
|-
| 3rd person pl || - || li || los, l'
|}
<sup>1</sup>Direct object with non-dative arguments, but always indirect in dative arguments. Object clitics are proclitics.

=== Adjectives ===
=== Determiners ===
Since nouns do not inflect for case, this job is up to determiners, mainly the articles.
{| class="wikitable"
|+ The definite article
|-
! Case !! sg !! pl
|-
| NOM-ACC || le/la/lo || los/las
|-
| GENITIVE || del/dela/delo || delos/delas
|-
| DATIVE || alle/alla/allo || allos/allas
|-
| ABLATIVE || dil/dila/dilo || dilos/dilas
|-
| LOCATIVE || nel/na/no || nelos/nelas
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+ The indefinite article
|-
! Case !! sg !! pl
|-
| NOM-ACC || un/una/uno || unos/unas
|-
| GENITIVE || don/dona/dono || donos/donas
|-
| DATIVE || an/ana/ano || anos/anas
|-
| ABLATIVE || dun/duna/duno || dunos/dunas
|-
| LOCATIVE || en/ena/eno || enos/enas
|}
=== Verbs ===
=== Adverbs ===
=== Derivational morphology ===
==Syntax==
===Constituent order===
===Noun phrase===
===Verb phrase===
===Sentence phrase===
===Dependent clauses===
==Example texts==