LEONE REGENTISH

Leone Regentish(LR) is a dialect of the Merida Regentish(MR) variant of the Regentish diasystem spoken mainly in the urban area of Leone and the Northwest area of Regente Republic. It’s mutually intelligible with other dialects within the diasystem, but has a couple of innovative and distinctive features. There’s an ongoing project to encode and recognize a standard for LR, and it might become the third standard variant of Regento-Meridese language.

🔤 PHONOLOGY

Lenition of stops between vowels, extending beyond word boundaries. i.e.: banera (flag), but a βanera (the flag). The general rule is that /b/ /d/ and /g/ become /β/ /ð/ /ɣ/, and /p/ /t/ /k/ become /ɸ/ /θ/ /h/. o palaciu er gelu el é massa bel (the ice castle is so beautiful) → o ɸalaci er gel il é massa βel.
Deletion of most vowels at the ending of words, except /a/ or when it would lead to a consonant cluster. i.e. o regentino el tiene na gramateca rificele → o regentin il tien na gramaθeca rificel. This process occurs more or less uniformly in all other varieties of MR (except in Monteruber Regentish). Otherwise, there’s no vowel reduction and no schwa in other contexts. All vowels are pronounced clearly, and LR tends to be more syllable-timed.
Unstressed /e/ becomes diphthongized at the beginning of a word. i.e. elementu → eilement; egresia → eigresia; economia → eihonomia.
Generalized rhotacism of /l/ before a consonant. i.e. rolce → rorce; calma → carma. It might also affect words that end in /r/ in MR. i.e. quartel → quarter.

🔠 MORPHOLOGY

There’s no distinction between singular and plural, due to deletion of the final unstressed /e/ that once marked the plural. The plural is marked through the use of articles or numerals. Due to analogy, the plural suffix also stopped being used in feminine nouns ending in -a. i.e. {una casa; roje case; una casa bela; roje case bele} → {una hasa; roj hasa; una hasa βela; roj hasa βela}.
LR has a slightly different set of obligatory unstressed verbal pronouns. Here’s a comparative table.

Meridese Regentish	Leone Regentish
mi	im, u
te	et ~ it
el	il ~ i (the latter doesn’t trigger lenition)
la	la
ni	ni
i	vi
i	i (triggers lenition)

The 3rd person singular form became generalized in almost all verbal forms, even when the language is spoken in formal settings (unless one is using standard MR, either in its spoken or written form). Here’s an example with the verb amá (to love):

	Present	Imperfect	Preterite	Future	Conditional	Imperative
Ieu	m’ama	m’amava	m’amau	m’amará	m’amassi, m’amarebe	-
Tu	it ama	it amava	t’amau	t’amará	t’amassi, t’amarebe	ama
Issu, essa	il ama, la ama	il amava, la amava	il amau, la amau	il amará, la amará	il amassi, il amarebe	-
Nantri	ni ama	ni amava	ni amau	ni amará	ni amassi, ni amarebe	amamo
Vartri	vi ama	vi amava	vi amau	vi amará	vi amassi, ni amarebe	amate
Lor	i ama	i amava	i amau	i amará	vi amassi, ni amarebe	-

Noje and voje get substituted by nantri and vartri.

📕 LEXICON

Leone Regentish	English	Fala d’Arlian
carter	group of friends	grupo d’amigos
murir	friend	amigo, companneiro
mor	boyfriend	enamorado
mora	girlfriend	enamorada
viela	city, villagre	cidade, villa
bagú	thing, subject, matter	cousa
frater	pal, mate, buddy	amigo, mano
matita	pencil	lápiz
late	cum, sperm	esperma

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