Aemonian

Aemonian
Lingva Aimoniana
Pronunciation	[[Help:IPA|lingva ˈae̯monja:na]]
Created by	Ioscius
Date	2018
Setting	Largely Roman culture
Native speakers	~300,000 (8th century)
Language family	Latin and Alpine Slavic Aemonian
Early form	Lingua Alpina

Nota bene, care lector, this is a work in progress

Aemonian, natively called Lingva Aimoniana, is a hybridlang created by Ioscius as a cross between a theoretical late form of Latin and a theoretical early form of Slovenian.

Introduction

Setting

Western Rome never fell, but continued well for a thousand years after Augustus and more. The Roman colony Colonia Iulia Aemona, founded on the site of modern-day Ljubljana, served well as one of the empire's main hubs in the region northeast of the Italian peninsula. It absorbed waves of Slavs in the migrations of the 6th to 9th centuries, and over time a mixed language of Latin substrate and heavy Slavic superstrate formed from a late form of Alpine Slavic, the link between Proto-Slavic and the Slovenian found in the Freising Manuscripts. Latin still served as the official and administrative language, but Aemonian was spoken in the streets, even by learned individuals.

Design goals

The author's main design goal was simply to play around with his favorite language (Latin) and his Stockholm-syndrome language (Slovenian).

That necessitated the following various subgoals:

• implement the dual in a Latlang
• as always, expand the role of the middle voice
• experiment with reduplication and other innovative ways of playing with an influx of new verbal stems