Oltic

Oltic
Λῦτικη, Литике
Pronunciation	[lîtike]
Created by	Dillon Hartwig
Date	2021
Setting	Olt County, Romania; Pleven Province, Bulgaria
Language family	Indo-European Celtic Oltic
Early forms	Old Oltic Middle Oltic
Writing systems	Greek Cyrillic

Oltic /ˈɔʊltɪk/ (Oltic: Λῦτικη, Литике [lîtike]) is a Celtic language spoken by the intersection of the rivers Olt and Danube.

Etymology

Oltic is from the English name of the river Olt.

Orthography

Oltic is written with the Greek and Cyrillic scripts.

Hellenic orthography

Α α	Αι αι	Β β	Γ γ	Γγ γγ	Γλ γλ	Γν γν	Γρ γρ
/a/	/ɛ/	/v/	/ɣ,j/	/ᵑg,ⁿd͡ʑ/	/ʎ/	/ɲ/	/ʑ/
Γϝ γϝ	Δ δ	Ε ε	Ει ει	Ζ ζ	Η η	Θ θ	Ι ι
/ᵑgʷ,ⁿd͡ʑʷ/	/ð/	/e/	/e/	/z/	/ɛ/	/f/	/i,j,ɲ,∅/
Κ κ	Γκ γκ	Λ λ	Μ μ	Μβ μβ	Μπ μπ	Ν ν	Νδ νδ
/k,t͡ɕ/	/ᵑg,ⁿd͡ʑ/	/l,ʎ/	/m/	/ᵐb/	/ᵐb/	/n,ɲ/	/ⁿd/
Ντ ντ	Ξ ξ	Ο ο	Οι οι	Ου ου	Π π	Ρ ρ	Σ σ/ς
/ⁿd/	/xs/	/o̞/	/i/	/u/	/p/	/r,ʑ/	/s/
Τ τ	Υ υ	Υι υι	Φ φ	Χ χ	Ψ ψ	Ω ω	Ϝ ϝ
/t/	/i,f,m,v/	/i/	/f/	/x,ɕ/	/fs/	/o̞/	/ɣʷ,ɥ/
ά	ᾶ	ὰ				Ϊ ϊ	Ϋ ϋ
/á/	/â/	/ǎ/				/i,j/	/i,j/

Cyrillic orthography

А а	Б б	В в	Г г	Гв гв	Д д	Ђ ђ	Ђв ђв	Е е
/a/	/ᵐb/	/v/	/ᵑg,ɣ/	/ᵑgʷ,ɣʷ/	/ⁿd,ð/	/ⁿd͡ʑ/	/ⁿd͡ʑʷ/	/e/
Ж ж	З з	И и	Ј ј	Јв јв	К к	Л л	Љ љ	М м
/ʑ/	/z/	/i/	/j/	/ɥ/	/k/	/l/	/ʎ/	/m/
Н н	Њ њ	О о	П п	Р р	С с	Т т	Ћ ћ	У у
/n/	/ɲ/	/o̞/	/p/	/r/	/s/	/t/	/t͡ɕ/	/u/
Ф ф	Х х	Ш ш	Ѣ ѣ
/f/	/x/	/ɕ/	/ɛ/

Phonology

Consonants

Consonants

	Labial		Alveolar		Palatal		Velar
Nasal	m		n		ɲ
Stop	p	ᵐb	t	ⁿd	t͡ɕ	ⁿd͡ʑ ⁿd͡ʑʷ	k	ᵑg ᵑgʷ
Fricative	f	v	s	ð z	ɕ	ʑ	x	ɣ ɣʷ
Approximant			l		j ɥ ʎ
Trill			r

• /l/ is in free variation with [ɫ].
• /r/ is in free variation with [ɾ].
• Prenasalized consonants are plain phrase-initially and before consonants.

Vowels

Vowels

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Close-mid	e	o̞
Open-mid	ɛ
Low	a

• /a/ is in free variation with [ɐ].
• /i,u/ may be devoiced or elided after voiceless consonants.
• /ɛ/ merges into /e/ after velar consonants.

Pitch accent

Tones

High	Falling	Rising
˥	˥˩	˩˥

Prosody

Stress is variable but in native words is initial.

Phonotactics

Oltic maximal syllables are CCCVCC

Syntax

Constituent order

Oltic word order is flexible but predominantly SVO.

Example texts

Linguifex-hosted translations

• Translated works in Oltic
• Oltic/Test Case Sentences
• Oltic/Corpus

Conlang Atlas of Language Structures-hosted translations

• CALS translations

Other resources

CALS