Coroanês

This is an as-of-yet unstable Romance Conlang. I am just going to throw in a few ideas here until I decide which sounds I want changed from the rest of the Romance Languages, then I can start work on a vocabulary.

For Reference

Phonology of Galician-Portuguese, which is Coroanês' proto-language.

Vowels

Phoneme (IPA)	Grapheme
/a/	a
/e/	e
/ɛ/	e
/i/	i
/o/	o
/ɔ/	o
/u/	u

Consonant phonemes of Galician-Portuguese

	Bilabial consonant		Labiodental- labiodental		Dental consonant/ Alveolar consonant		Postalveolar- Postalveolar		Palatal consonant		Velar consonant
Nasal stop	m				n				ɲ
Plosive consonant	p	b			t	d					k	ɡ
Fricative consonant	β1		f		s	z	ʃ	ʒ2
Affricate consonant					ts	dz	tʃ	dʒ2
Lateral consonant					l				ʎ
Trill consonant					r
Flap consonant					ɾ

Actual Language

Phonology

Vowels

Phonemes
	Front	Central	Back
Closed	/i/ i		/u/ u
Near-closed	/ɪ/ i
Mid-closed	/e/ e		/o/ o
Central
Mid-open	/ɛ/ e		/ɔ/ o
Near-open		/ɐ/ â
Open	/a/ a

Diphthongs

IPA	Grapheme
/aj/	ai
/aw/	au
/ɐw/	âu
/ɛw/	eu
/ew/	eu
/ɛj/	ei/ê
/ej/	ei/ê
/ɔj/	oi
/ow/	ou

• ê - stressed, ei - unstressed

Consonant phonemes of Coroanês

	Bilabial consonant		Labiodental- labiodental		Dental consonant/ Alveolar consonant		Postalveolar- Postalveolar		Palatal consonant		Velar consonant		Glottal consonant		Uvular consonant
Nasal stop	/m/ m				/n/ n				/ɲ/ gn		/ŋ/ ng
Plosive consonant	/p/ p	/b/ b			/t/ t	/d/ d					/k/ c	/ɡ/ g
Fricative consonant			/f/ f		/s/ s	/z/ z	/ʃ/ x	/ʒ/ j					/h/ r	/ʀ/ r
Affricate consonant							/tʃ/ tx (?)	/dʒ/ d
Lateral consonant	/w/ uV				/l/ l						/ɫ/ l
Trill consonant					/r/ r
Flap consonant					/ɾ/ r
Approximate consonant									/j/ Ø

Notes

• /w/ - u+open vowel --> ua, uâ, uo - /wa wɐ wo/ Also appears in falling diphthongs
• /ɫ/ - l+open vowel (word-initial)
• /d͡ʒ/ - d+closed front vowel --> di, de - /d͡ʒi d͡ʒe/
• /j/ - Ø. Only appears in falling diphthongs
• /ʀ/ - word final r with preceding a --> -ar - /aʀ/

Changes

Sounds Lost:

• /β/ to /b/-
• /ʎ/
• /ts/
• /dz/

Sounds Gained:

• /ɐ/ - â
• /w/ - qu+open vowel
• /ŋ/ - ng
• /ɫ/ - l+open vowel (word-initial only)
• /j/ - Ø. only appears in diphthongs
• /h/ - word-initial r

Other Changes:

• rt/lt to r/l
• word-final 's' to Ø Not counting plural marker
• nd/nt to d/t
• unstressed o to /u/
• latin /o:/ to /u/

Vowel phonemes allowed in unstressed possition - /a i o/

A lingua coroanêsa' /'a 'lɪŋ.wa kuɾ.u.a.nejs.a/(?)

Numbers

Number	Cardinal	Ordinal
0	zero
1	un	primêro
2	do	seguno
3	trê	terso
4	quatro	quaro
5	sinco	quito
6	sê	sêsto
7	seti	setimo
8	oxo	oxabo
9	nobi	nobeno
10	dê	désimo
11	onzi	dêsimo primêro
12	dozi	dêsimo seguno
13	trêzi	dêsimo terso
14	catorzi	dêsimo quaro
15	quinzi	déccimo quito
16	dêsi	dêcimo sêsto
17	dêseti	dêcimo setimo
18	dêioxo	dêcimo oxabo
19	dêinobi	dêcimo nobeno
20	biti	bijesimo
21	biti i un	bijesimo primêro
22	biti i do	bijesimo seguno
30	trita	tijesimo
31	trita i un	trijesimo primêro
40	quareta	quatrajesimo
50	sincueta	quiquajesimo
60	sêseta	sêstajesimo
70	seteta - seta	setajesimo
80	oxeta	oxojesimo
90	nobeta	nonajesimo
100	sen	sentêsimo

Playin' Around

• I = eo
• you = vose, tu
• he, she = ele, ela
• they = eles, elas
• we =no

• the man = o omem
• the woman = a muler
• the boy = o neno
• the girl = a nina

eo gosto de cabalos - I like [the] horses

eo so um omem - I am a man /ɛo sɔ um 'om.ɛm/

voses sou itelijentes - you.pl are smart /vu'ses sow 'i.tel.i.ʒen.tɛs/