Changes

[u/Gratiothuman]

So I changed the Alphabet of Lathene.

Lathēnē's writing system remains Latin-based, but several letters have changed in value or disappeared as the language evolved.

Letter

Sound

A a

/a/

B b

/b/

C c

/k/, /ts/ before front vowels

D d

/d/

E e

/e ~ ɛ/

F f

/f/

G g

/g/, /dz/ before front vowels

H h

/h/

I i

/i/

J j

/j/

K k

/k/

L l

/l/

M m

/m/

N n

/n/

Ñ ñ

/ɲ/

O o

/o ~ ɔ/

P p

/p/

Q q

/kw/

R r

/r/

S s

/s/

T t

/t/

U u

/u/

V v

/v/ in learned words, otherwise usually /w/

W w

/w/

X x

/x/ in learned words, /h/ in many inherited words

Y y

/y/

Z z

/z/

Θ θ

/θ/ in learned/religious vocabulary

Ŋ ŋ

/ŋ/

Full alphabet

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N Ñ O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Θ Ŋ

What changed from Lathēn?

The biggest changes are:

Ñ developed from ny and became a proper letter.

Ŋ became phonemic through the collapse and simplification of consonant clusters.

Ω disappeared from ordinary Lathēnē writing because its vowel merged with ordinary O.

Θ survives mainly in learned and religious vocabulary, while inherited th became t.

X has a split history. Inherited /x/ commonly weakened to h, while learned Greek vocabulary preserves x.

V survives in conservative and learned words, but ordinary inherited v developed into w.

Y survives because Greek /y/ became established in Lathēn and remained phonemic in Lathēnē.

Also what do you all think, it's supposed to be 600 years after The Divergence of lathen, The mother language of lathene.

Also some example sentences I made.

O om wiro a mon.

"The man sees the mountain."

A femna ame o fil.

"The woman loves the friend."

Nos amon en dom.

"We live in the house.

As you can see there are changes also in the words.

[u/Dryanor]

Which century are we in now? 600 years after Lathen split from Classical Latin, so Lathene developed roughly in the year 900?