Greko-Latina

Introduction

Greko-Latina is intended as a way to take the international scientific and Greko-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

Greko-Latina uses the 26 standard letters of the Latin alphabet with no extra characters. 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. 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
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	d͡z

Consonants

	Labial	Dental	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	θ	s z	ʃ	ç ~ x
Approximant					j		w	h
Rhotic			r r̥
Lateral			l

Consonants are never geminated.

Vowels

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

Prosody

Stress

Stress is always on the penultimate syllable.

Phonotactics

The maximal syllable structure is <C><C><C><V><C>.

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 celo,
santifakato stare tutro nomene,
tutro regita avenas,
tutro volunto stare fakato,
in geo et in celo,
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 eternita, amen."