Its yet another daughter language from Latin but I really don't have a backstory for this one.
Phonology
/m n ɲ/ <m n gn>
/p b t d k g/ <p b t d c/qu g/gu>*
/f v s z ʃ ʒ h/ <f v s z x/c j/g h>**
/j ʀ ɾ l ʎ/ <ï rr/r r l ll>***
*/k g/ are <qu gu> before front vowels and <c g> everywhere else.
**/ʃ ʒ/ are <c g> before front vowels and <x j> everywhere else.
*** /ʀ/ is <r> in word-inital position, where /ɾ/ never appears.
Every obstruent may be geminated, this is represented in the orthography by doubling the correspondent letter: ⟨bb⟩ for [bː], ⟨pp⟩ for [pː], ⟨ss⟩ for [sː] etc.
/i ɨ u e o a/ <i y u e o a>
/iː ɨ uː eː oː aː/ <í ý ú é ó á>
Stress is always on the penult syllable.
A glottal fricative [h] is added between vowels to prevent hiatus. This also applies across word boundaries in cases of close syntactic connection.
Phonotactics
Syllables like (C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)(C)(C) are possible but are extremely rare, CVC, CV, CVCC are the most common syllable patterns.
Nouns
Nouns in Ungarre distinguishes two genders (masculine and feminine) and two numbers (singular and plural). Just like in many Romance languages, there is no case system, yet unlike most other Romance languages, genitive, instead of the accusative, displaced the nominative. The noun is declined only for the category of number while gender is expressed by the article preceding the noun.
Number
There are three main patterns for the formation of plural nouns in Ungarre. These patterns are based on which declension the noun originally belonged to in Latin.
Plural in -ar
The plural is formed by adding the -ar suffix to the singular form of the noun. This pattern is based on Latin's first declension.
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Singular Plural Meaning
/poɾt/ /'poɾ.taɾ/ "entrance, passage, door"
/faːh/ /'faː.haɾ/ "beech"
The plural is formed by adding the -or suffix to the singular form of the noun. This patterns is based on latin's second declension.
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Singular Plural Meaning
/poɾk/ /'poɾ.koɾ/ "pig"
/'gel.ziː/ /'gel.zoɾ/ "sword"
The plural is formed by adding the -er suffix to the singular form of the noun. This pattern is based on Latin's third, fourth and fifth declension. This one is kinda sketchy, only the nouns of the fifth declension actually would have the plural formed with -er. Nouns from Latin's third and fourth declension form plural with -Ø, that is, their plural and singular form is the same. The -er suffix is applied to them through analogy with the first and second patterns.
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Singular Plural Meaning
/'om.ɲe/ /'om.ɲeɾ/ "man"
/ʀeː/ /ʀeɾ/ "king"