Sanspirite

Sanspirite is the official language of Sante Spirite and is primarily spoken by their citizens. It is related to the Nezo-Romance branch of Earth's Indo-European language family with many of the language's features appearing in Spanish and French. Due to cultural exchange with Ka'aktu Tanunate, a small diaspora of Sanspirite speakers now exists that numbers around 10,000. It is also the language used amongst Wiccans in Nezomere, and many Wiccan works, both fictional and non-fictional, are written in the language.

Phonology

The language consists of eighteen consonants and uses the five-vowel system. It is written using the Latin alphabet with the letter "w" being an outlier, as most other Romance languages use a combination of vowels to substitute the sound. The letter "x" is another outlier in that it is used to make the sound "ʃ", or "sh" in words such as "shirt".

In regards to "r", both a tapped and trilled pronunciation is acceptable in general speech, although cases where "rr" appears are generally a stronger trill.

Consonants

• Romanization is shown through a letter surrounded by parentheses where the romanization is different than the symbol in the IPA.

	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar
Affricate				d͡ʒ (y)
Plosive	m		n			k (c), g
Nasal	p, b		t, d		ɲ (ñ)
Fricative		f,v	s, z	ʃ (x)
Approximant			l			w
Tap/Trill			r

Lenition

Due to being next to different members of the Loquille-Celtic language family, Sanspirite has developed lenition which turns initial stops into their voiced counterparts when preceded by the definite article.

Caramida -> La Garamida

This affects the following consonants: p, t, c, m, turning them into: b, d, g, w respectively

Vowels

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Close-mid	e	o
Front		a

Each vowel can have a tick above it to show that stress is to be put on that vowel.

Example

Semán

Grammar

The grammar of Sanspirite takes after Spanish with most of the differences being with its pronouns, verb tenses and moods. The language follows Subject-Verb-Object word order by default, although the accusative pronoun is generally placed before the action it is receiving, making a Subject-Object-Verb construction.

Nouns

Like most other languages in the Romance branch, nouns do not have cases, but do have three grammatical genders: Masculine, Feminine, Neuter. Instead, they only conjugate for plurality with exception to some Neuter nouns.

Neuter Nouns

Neuter nouns come in one of two categories: Person and non-person. Person nouns refer to professions, titles and the word 'Ome'. These nouns refer to either a person of unknown gender, unspecified gender, or a non-binary gender identity. These nouns will always end in -e, and a different gender can be specified by changing -e to -a for Female and -o for Male.

Non-person nouns generally relate to religious concepts and may end with -e or may end in a consonant.

Plurality

Plurality is shown by adding -s to the end of a noun that ends in a verb or most consonants, or -es if the noun ends in -z, -s or -x.

Pronouns

Nouns are declined for both accusative and genitive. Like other Romance languages, there is a separate Formal and Informal 'You'.

	Nominative	Accusative	Genitive
I	Yo	Mi	Mwa
You	Tu	Te	Twa
You (Plural)	Tus		Teis
You (Formal)	Vu	Ve	Wa
You (Formal Plural)	Vus
They (Singular)	Él	Li	Eleu
She	Éla	Leu
He	Éle
They (Plural)	Élis	Alan	Ewa
We	Nu	Noi	Nwi
Something	Ceva	Cevan	Cewí

Verbs

Verbs, like in Spanish, end with one or three endings: -ar, -er, -ir. These endings are changed based on person and tense. However, there is no separate conjugation for the subjunctive. Sanspirite instead uses the article 'az' to in a similar way to the English word 'can', although it is not a verb and does not conjugate on by itself.

There are five tenses: Present, Present Imperfect, Past, Past Imperfect and Future. The language also has an Imperative mood which uses -a.

Conjugation Table

	Past	Past Imperfect	Present	Present Imperfect	Future
Yo	-é	-énde	-o	-ándo	-al
Tu/Vu	-ó	-ónde	-es	-éndo	-én
Tus/Vus	-ís	-isé	-es	-éndo	-én
Él/Éle/Éla	-os	-istei	-et	-yendo, -iendo	-eti
Élis	-esto	-istei	-et	-yendo, -iendo	-étan
Nu	-éme	-eméi	-an	-ádo	-én

Verb Articles

There are three articles: Az, Eu and No or N'.

• Az is used to show that an action could be done, but that it isn't currently being done.
• Eu is used to show that the subject is having that verb be done to them, also known as a Participle.
• No is used to negate a verb, saying that the action is not being done. If a verb begins with a vowel, however, it will become N' and attach to the verb.

Auxiliary Verbs

Auxiliary verbs are verbs that require another verb to function. These verbs end in -e and do not conjugate for tense.

Examples

Tu az ves e scwelo.

You can go to school.

Yo no manyo animalos.

I don't eat animals.

Tu n'eu libes.

You aren't free.

Tu debe manyes.

You should eat.