Greko-Latina

Introduction

Græko-Latina is intended as a way to take the international scientific and Græko-Latin vocabulary and make an International Auxiliary Language. It arose from my disfavor with the vocabulary, phonology, etc. of other IALs such as Esperanto and Interlingua. As a secondary matter, I hope it could be used by the Catholic Church as a way to simplify Latin to bring back for mass.

Phonology

Orthography

Græko-Latina uses the 26 standard letters of the Latin alphabet with the addition of æ and œ, which may be written as ae and oe if it's more convenient. All letters have their IPA values except c, q, and x, which are /t͡s or t͡ʃ/, /kʷ/, and /ʃ/ respectively. Four digraphs (ai, au, eu, oi) make the implied diphthong, and ch, rh, and th have their Greek pronunciations (/x/, /r̥/, and /θ/, respectively). Q does not pair with u, as in most European languages, as this is redundant.

This way the letters and digraphs have as close as possible to their pan-European values as possible while also being phonetic.

Letter	IPA (preferred)	IPA (alternate)
a	ɑ
æ	æ	ɛ
b	b
c	t͡s	t͡ʃ
d	d
e	e
f	f
g	g	ɣ
h	h	ɦ
i	i
j	j
k	k
l	l
m	m
n	n
o	o
p	p
q	kʷ	kw, kv
r	r	any voiced rhotic
s	s
t	t
u	u
v	v
w	w
x	ʃ
y	y	ɪ, ʏ, ɨ, ə
z	z

The digraphs are:

Digraph	IPA
ch	x
rh	r̥
th	θ

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar
					plain	labialized	Glottal
Nasal	m	n
Plosive	p b	t d			k g	kʷ
Affricate		t͡s ~ t͡ʃ
Fricative	f v	s z	ʃ
Approximant				j		w	h
Rhotic		r
Lateral		l

Consonants are never geminated. As a matter of coincidence, this is similar to the consonant inventory of Welsh without the voiceless nasal series.

Vowels

	Front	Back
Close	i y	u
Mid	e œ	o
Open	æ	ɑ

The vowel system is similar to Finnish, except without length distinction.

Prosody

Stress

Stress is always on the penultimate syllable, unless the word is more than two syllables AND has a diphthong, then the stress is on the antepenultimate.

Syntax

Constituent order

Since there are few inflections, a strict word order of SVO is required, and adjectives come after nouns.

Example texts

The Lord's Prayer:

"Nostro patre, ki stas in cælo,
santifakato stare tutro nomene,
tutro regita avenas,
tutro volunto stare fakato,
in geo et in cælo,
das a nos hodi nostro diese pane,
et dismisa nostro debito tam nos dismisa le debite de alio,
et no indukas nos a tentace,
pero liberas nos de malo.
Ka tutro stas la regita, potenca, et glori,
en æternita, amen."