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{{Infobox language | |||
|name = Rówok | |||
|nativename = Rówok | |||
|pronunciation = [ro:wok] | |||
|region = The western hills of the Ural mountain range | |||
|states = | |||
|nation = | |||
|speakers = ~10,000 | |||
|date = In world vaguely undefined pre-industrial period, thought to be around 1200 BCE. | |||
|familycolor = #F2DC77 | |||
|fam1 = Proto-Ruk | |||
|fam2 = Ruk | |||
|fam3 = ? | |||
|ancestor = Ruk | |||
|iso1 = | |||
|iso2 = | |||
|iso3 = | |||
|script = Extended Latin for south Slavic plus '''<ŧ>''' for '''/θ/''' and '''<ř>''' for '''/r̝/'''. Also, unlike Slavic, '''<đ>''' is used for '''/ð/'''. For more see [[#Orthography|orthography]]. | |||
|agency = Intertribal agreement | |||
}} | |||
:Nota bene, care lector, this is a work in progress | :Nota bene, care lector, this is a work in progress | ||
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===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
Prosody is not unlike something you'd here in the South Slavic languages. It is not particularly singsongy, and a lot of consonant clusters perhaps give | Prosody is not unlike something you'd here in the South Slavic languages. It is not particularly singsongy, and a lot of consonant clusters perhaps give Rówok a a bit of a rough sound. Nonetheless, there is a lot of epenthesis, augment, and other interesting vocalic patterns that nonetheless give the language an aesthetic flow and lends itself to mellifluous constructions, even if they might not be a characteristic of common speech. | ||
====Stress==== | ====Stress==== | ||
Every word has a primary stress accent, which tends toward the penult or antepenult, and the language is stabilizing to a system like the Latin one, just that the length of the syllable determining the penult or antepenult is based solely on position, as there are no phonemic long vowels in Rówok. | Every word has a primary stress accent, which tends toward the penult or antepenult, and the language is stabilizing to a system like the Latin one, just that the length of the syllable determining the penult or antepenult is based solely on position, as there are no phonemic long vowels in Rówok. | ||
After the primary stress all successive vowels are reduced to schwa. | After the primary stress in tri- and more-syllabic words all successive vowels are reduced to schwa, '''but not in disyllabic words''' (cf. rówok /ro:wok/, but razánka /raza:nkə/) | ||
====Intonation==== | ====Intonation==== | ||