Osilian

Osilian
Osille
Pronunciation	ˈosij
Created by	Yozhik
Date	2024
Setting	Alt-history
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Osilian
Writing system	Latin
Official status
Recognised minority language in	France
Regulated by	Sentre de Oices, Alei

Osilian is a Romance language spoken in France. It is classified as a regional language of the region of Osilia (french: Auseille). It is taught in bilingual French and Osilian schools.

Phonology

Consonants

Consonant phonemes

	Labial		Dental/ alveolar		Post- alveolar/ palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasal		m		n		ɲ
Stop	p	b	t	d			k	ɡ
Affricate			t͡ʃ	d͡ʒ					h
Fricative	f	v	s	z	ʃ	ʒ	x
Approximant						j
Lateral				l
Trill				r

Vowels

Vowel phonemes Front Central Back Close i u Close-mid e o Mid ə Open-mid ɔ Open a

Nasal Front Central Back Open-mid (ɛ̃) ɔ̃ Open ɑ̃

In common pronunciation, the vowel [ɛ̃] is no longer nasalised and is therefore pronounced [ɛ].

Orthography

Standard orthography

A a	B b	C c	D d	E e	F f	G g
H h	I i	J j	K k	L l	M m	N n
O o	P p	R r	S s	T t	U u	V v
Y y	Z z

This orthography also has additional letters that exist, such as double letters and diacritics, but they are not always included in the official alphabet.

Most of the letters correspond to their pronunciation, and the language has an orthography qualified as phonetic. The only letters whose pronunciation differs are the following:

• ⟨c⟩ exclusively makes the /k/ sound in front of ⟨a⟩ and ⟨i⟩, and the /t͡ʃ/ sound in front of ⟨e⟩, ⟨o⟩ and ⟨u⟩. It may also make the /ʃ/ sound at the end of a word.
• ⟨e⟩ is not pronounced after ⟨ll⟩ at the end of words, with rare exceptions.
• ⟨g⟩ is always pronounced /gʲ/ at the beginning of a word, or is pronounced /gʷ/ if followed by the letter ⟨u⟩.
• ⟨h⟩ is pronounced /h/ when at the beginning of a proper noun and /x/ for the rest of the situations, with some exceptions.
• ⟨i⟩ works as a non-syllabic vowel when it follows another vowel.
• ⟨j⟩ is actually pronounced /ʒ/.
• ⟨y⟩ makes the sound /i/ at the end of words.

Additional letters

Á á	À à	CC cc	É é	È è	GG gg	Í í
LL ll	Ó ó	Ò ò	RR rr	Ú ú	Ýý

Diacritics are sometimes omitted in written language, and double letters never appear, with a very few exceptions, at the beginning of a word.

• ◌́ Acute accent: the language had a distinction between long and short vowels, this distinction is now non-existent but official documents and some people continue to write them.
• ◌̀ Grave accent: the grave accent is used to tell whether the vowel is nasalised or not; it is always marked.
• ⟨cc⟩ makes the sound /ʃ/.
• ⟨gg⟩ makes the sound /g/.
• ⟨ll⟩ makes the sound /j/, must be followed by ⟨e⟩ if at the end of a word.
• ⟨rr⟩ makes the sound /r/.