Neolatino Romance

Neolatino Romance, or simply called Neolatino, (Romance neolatino in Neolatin),^{[1][2][failed verification]} is a pan-Romance language, that is, a codified linguistic variety based on the Romance languages.^[3][4] It has been proposed as a standard language for the entire Romance family, and thus a zonal constructed language enabling communication between speakers of different Romance languages.^[5][6] The development of the language was intended as a linguistic innovation, not to serve any political or nationalistic ideology.^[7]

Neolatino is classified as an auxiliary constructed language that aims to be a hypothetical natural evolution of vulgar latin, just like how the modern romance languages are. It also aims to do so in a way most intuitive to native speakers of other romance languages, thus staying true to the shared gramatical and structural nuances these languages have, favouring naturality and intuitiveness within the romance language family over a simplification for the sake of easy learning. This means that to an outsider of the romance languages, Neolatino may not necessarily be the easiest romance language to learn, however, its neutral nature can make it very versatile.

Phonology

The official neolatin phonology is composed of the most common phonemes found in modern romace languages, minimizing the amount of new sounds a speaker of any other romance language would need to learn.

Consonants

	Labial		Alveolar		Palatal/ Post-alveolar		Velar
Nasal		m		n		ɲ
Stop	p	b	t	d			k	ɡ
Affricate			ts	dz/z	tʃ	dʒ/ʒ
Fricative	f	v	s		ʃ
Aproximant		w				j		(w)
Lateral				l		ʎ
Trill			r
Flap			ɾ

Vowels

	Front	Back
Closed	i	u
Mid-closed	e	o
Mid-open	ɛ	ɔ
Open	a

Note that some sounds like ɲ or ʎ are not present in all modern romance languages and speakers are alowed to pronunce them in other ways that can sound similar such as /nj/ and /lj/

Alphabet

Neolatino uses the basic 26 letter latin alphabet, although a few of them are only used in loan words.

Basic Alphabet

Letter	Name	Pronunciation	Leter	Name	Pronunciation
A a	A	a	N n	Ènne	n
B b	Be	b	O o	O	o or ɔ*
C c	Ce	k before a, o, u tʃ before e, i	P p	Pe	p
D d	De	d	Q q	Cu	k
E e	E	e or ɛ*	R r	Èrre	ɾ or r*
F f	Èffe	f	S s	Èsse	s
G g	Ge	ɡ before a, o, u dʒ before e, i	T t	Te	t
H h	Hacca	-	U u	U	u
I i	I	i	V v	Ve	v
J j	Jota	dʒ~ʒ*	W w	Ve dople	w
K k	Ca	k	X x	Ics	ks
L l	Èlle	l	Y y	I grèca	i or j
M m	Èmme	m	Z z	Zèta	dz~z*

Other Graphemes

Letter(s)	Pronunciation	Letter(s)	Pronunciation
À à	a	NÎ nî	ɲ
CH ch	k before e, i	Ò ò	ɔ
CÎ cî	tʃ before a, o, u	Ó ó	o
È è	ɛ	QU qu	kw*
É é	e	RR rr	r
GH gh	ɡ before e, i	SÎ sî	ʃ
GÎ gî	dʒ before a, o, u	TI ti	tsj when followed by another vowel
Í í	i
LÎ lî	ʎ	Ú ú	u

Notes:

• The letters E and O will be pronunced /e/ and /o/ respectively whenever they are not marked with a diacritic, or marked with an acute accent, but will be pronoucned as /ɛ/ and /ɔ/ whenever marked with a grave accent.
• The letters J and Z can be pronunced as affricates or as fricatives. The commonly accepted method is to pronunce them as fricatives (/z/, /ʒ/) whenever they are not geminated, and as affricates (/dz/, /dʒ/) when geminated. Gemination ocurrs when the consonant in question is found repeated twice in a row.
• The letter R should be pronunced /ɾ/ when appearing once between two vowels, and should be pronunced /r/ when appearing twice in a row or at the beginning of a word.

Notes

1. Palmiotta (2019)
2. Rincón Botero (2016)
3. Especialistas debaten la creación de un estándar románico. Universidad de Valencia, 2022 ]
4. Noticia en el diario El Periòdic sobre la creación de una lengua estándar neolatina [1]
5. Neolatin can be learned and used as a Romance Esperanto or Latin Esperanto, and can be treated as a set of recommendations for altering any Romance language to facilitate communication with other Romance speakers. It also helps Romance speakers get a better understanding of texts written in any other Romance language. (entrada en Omniglot) [2]
6. Blanke (1985), p. 153.
7. As evident in the above examples, pan-Romance international or zonal languages are less concerned with nationalistic appeals, whether simplified and cosmopolitan or zonal language schemes. None of them involve the ideological aspects inherent in the traditional sphere of linguistic influence and national expansionism. We can say that the Latin nature of pan-Romance artificial languages has limited their potential nationalist appeal, which is quite different from the pan-Germanic zonal constructed language and pan-Slavic language discussed below. Chiong Ek Lu (2021) en "The Environment of Language Creation from the Perspective of European Geopolitics: A Case Study of the Rise of Pan-nationalist Zonal Constructed Languages", en Global Academic Journal of Linguistics and Literature, Vol-3, Iss-6 pp-109-117.

External links

• Romance Neolatino's main site: www.neolatino.eu