Latonic

Latonic / Latone

Welcome to Latonic!

Latonic is a fictional language evolved directly from Latin and then later on influenced by Italian. Latonic is very complicated though though it looks a lot like Italian is probably a lot harder to speak correctly.

What is Latonic?

• An interesting language which sounds elegant and can be used for poetry, songs and writing
• Not a cheap variation on Latin or Italian, but a well thought-through Conlang
• A challenging language that is grammatically more complicated than Italian, but simpler than Latin. It is not one of these languages with a zillion cases and modes which require you to think half an hour over each sentence, but it isn't going to be easy either.
• For the nostalgic: It has cases, different mood, and a lot of words from Latin with disappeared in later Romance languages
  
• Influenced mostly by Latin, Italian, Venetian and vocabulary-wise also by French

An example text: (this is the article on Nelson Mandela from Wikipedia, which I did not write!)
"Nelso Rolihlahla Mandéla, nato le Jullo 18 1918, il servî quo Presidente l'Afrique de Sûd de 1994 a 1999, e il fûi il primo presidens Sûd-Africano qui fûi electo de una eleczióne qui permisi la reprentazio a l'intêro popelo. Ante su presidenza Mandéla il era un activista contre l'aparthèid (segregazióne), e le duíens Umkontho we Sizwe (la lança lé nazione), la seczio armata Convenzióne Africane Nazionale (ANC). A 1962 il fûi arrestato e convicto sabotage e âlie culpe, e judicato a lé vite. Mandéla il passâi 27 anni è la carcera, multi isti anni i lué so' passati sur l'Insela Robbén. È secuenza su remissióne le Fébruario 11 1990, Mandéla il duxi su faczio è la negotazione que resultâro' è la democraza è 1994. Quo presidente de 1994 a 1999, il dèdi vali torne a la reconcilazióne.
È l'Africa de Sûd, Mandéla il se cogne sépe quo Madíba, un titelo offerto de li segnôri li clan Mandéla.
Mandéla il habûi plus que 250 compensazio inpre quatra decégna, pré cu'l habûi le prémiu Nobél de la pace è 1993."

Table of Contents

Pronunciation
Nouns
Adjectives
Verbs in the Présens
Verbs in the Perfectu
The Other Tenses in the Indicative Mood
The Pronouns
Other Forms of the Verb
Negation