Galatian

Galatian
Τολιστεκά
Created by	Frederic Bayer (talk)
Setting	Alternate history
Native to	Galatia, Turkey, Greece, Georgia, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt
Native speakers	3,400,000 (2016)
Language family	Indo-European Celtic Galatian
Official status
Official language in	Galatia
Recognised minority language in	Greece, Georgia, Syria

The Galatian language is a Celtic language spoken mainly in the Galatian Republic, with significant minority communities in Turkey, Greece, Georgia, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt.

Phonology

Consonants

Nasal mutation

Unmutated	Mutated
π	β
τ	δ
κ	γ
β	μ
δ	ν
γ	γ̌

Vowels

	Front	Near- front	Central	Near- back	Back
Close	i y u ɪ ʏ e o ə ɛ ɔ a
Near-close
Close-mid
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open

In addition to these vowel qualities, Galatian has a length distinction and a historical aspiration distinction (now only retained epenthetically or in conservative dialects, but still consistently written in the orthography). Orthographic correspondence:

Phoneme	Grapheme
i, ɪ	ι
iː	ί
y, ʏ	υ
yː	ύ
u	ου
uː	ού
e, ɛ	ε, αι
eː	η,
ɛː	έ, αί
o, ɔ	ο
oː	ω
a	α
aː	ά

Vowel harmony

Valmoric has limited vowel harmony for bound morphemes: Morphemes subject to harmony which contain an ι, ε, or η will change this to an υ, ο, or ω respectively if the adjacent syllable contains an υ, ου, ο, or ω. Such harmonised vowels are marked with the circumflex: υ̂, ô, ω̂.