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	see also [[Balkan/Swadesh]] for comparative etymologies and word list.		see also [[Balkan/Swadesh]] for comparative etymologies and word list.

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	== Lexicography ==		== Lexicography ==
	* {{C\|κυβεντ}}		* {{term\|κυβεντ}}
	* {{C\|βασηλες}}		* {{term\|βασηλες}}

	see also [[Balkan/Swadesh]] for comparative etymologies and word list.		see also [[Balkan/Swadesh]] for comparative etymologies and word list.

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	see also [[Balkan/Swadesh]] for comparative etymologies and word list.		see also [[Balkan/Swadesh]] for comparative etymologies and word list.

	~~[[Category:Universal Languages]]~~		{{Aquatiki}}

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	{{Collab}}		{{Collab}}
			{{Infobox Universal Language
	Writing System: Greek alphabet		\| name=Balkan
	~~Population:~~ 60 ~~million would be helped by the creation of this language~~		\| altname=Бαλκαν
	~~Gender:~~ 3		\| color=#B66EE3
	~~Alignment:~~ Nominative-Accusative		\| Writing System= Greek alphabet
	Type: Fusional		\| population= 60
	Word-order: SVO		\| gender= 3
	~~Cases:~~ 3		\| alignment= Nominative-Accusative
	~~Language:~~ w:Albanian language, w:Modern Greek, w:Eastern Romance languages, w:South Slavic languages, w:Balkan Romani, w:Balkan Gagauz Turkish~~, etc.~~		\| Type= Fusional
			\| Word order= SVO
	~~[[File:~~Balkan flag.png~~\|thumb\|right\|Balkan Flag]]~~		\| cases= 3
			\| region=Balkans
			\| child1=[[w:Albanian language]]
			\| child2=[[w:Modern Greek]]
			\| child3=[[w:Eastern Romance languages]]
			\| child4=[[w:South Slavic languages]]
			\| child5=[[w:Balkan Romani]]
			\| child6=[[w:Balkan Gagauz Turkish]]
			\| flag=Balkan flag.png
			}}

	== Anthropology ==		== Anthropology ==

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			see also [[Balkan/Swadesh]] for comparative etymologies and word list.

	[[Category:Universal Languages]]		[[Category:Universal Languages]]

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	== Lexicography ==		== Lexicography ==
			* {{C\|κυβεντ}}
			* {{C\|βασηλες}}

	[[Category:Universal Languages]]		[[Category:Universal Languages]]

Aquatiki: another universal language

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another universal language

New page

{{Collab}}

Writing System: Greek alphabet
Population: 60 million would be helped by the creation of this language
Gender: 3
Alignment: Nominative-Accusative
Type: Fusional
Word-order: SVO
Cases: 3
Language: w:Albanian language, w:Modern Greek, w:Eastern Romance languages, w:South Slavic languages, w:Balkan Romani, w:Balkan Gagauz Turkish, etc.

[[File:Balkan flag.png|thumb|right|Balkan Flag]]

== Anthropology ==
The term "Balkan" refers to a peninsula, a region, a history, and a sprachbund, all bounded differently and all disagreed upon. Also known as Southeast Europe, linguists have long defined an areal sprachbund here.

There is one vote for each of the following groups

# Albanian
# Greek
# Northern Eastern Romance (consisting of Romanian and Moldovan)
# Southern Eastern Romance (consisting of Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian, and Istro-Romanian)
# Eastern Southern Slavic (consisting of Macedonian, Bulgarian, and Old Church Slavonic)
# Western Southern Slavic (consisting of Slovene, and Serbo-Croatian-Bosnian-Montenegrin), and
# Balkan Romani
Judeo-Spanish, and Gagauz Turkish do not normally get a vote.

== Phonology ==
Unlike a lot of other sprachbünde, the Balkans does not share much common phonology. Hence, a pan-Balkan language is necessarily left only with those elements common to all the source languages. It consists of 16 consonants, 6 vowels, and 3 diphthongs.

Balkan is written in the Greek alphabet, but borrows one letter from Cyrillic. Two sounds are digraphs and two graphemes have two sounds. θ is not "native" and ω indicates schwa.

The writing system is Greek plus Cyrillic ''be''.

=== Consonants ===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:auto;"
|-
|+Consonantal glyphs
! colspan=2|
! Labial
! Alveolar
! Palatal
! Velar
|-
! colspan=2|Nasal
| {{IPA|/m/}} Μ/μ
| {{IPA|/n/}} Ν/ν
|
|
|-
! rowspan=2|Plosive
! voiceless
| {{IPA|/p/}} Π/π
| {{IPA|/t/}} Τ/τ
|
| {{IPA|/k/}} Κ/κ
|-
! voiced
| {{IPA|/b/}} Б/б
| {{IPA|/d/}} Δ/δ
|
| {{IPA|/ɡ/}} Γ/γ
|-
! rowspan=2| Affricative
! voiceless
|
| colspan="2" | {{IPA|/t͡s~t͡ʃ~t͡ɕ/}} τσ
|
|-
! voiced
|
| colspan="2" | {{IPA|/d͡z~d͡ʒ~d͡ʑ/}} δζ
|
|-
! rowspan=2| Fricative
! voiceless
| {{IPA|/f/}} Φ/φ
| colspan="2" | {{IPA|/s~ʃ/}} Σ/σ/ς
| {{IPA|/x~h/}} Χ/χ
|-
! voiced
| {{IPA|/v~ʋ/}} Β/β
| colspan="2" | {{IPA|/z~ʒ/}} Ζ/ζ
|
|-
! colspan=2|Approximant
|
| {{IPA|/r~ɹ/}} Ρ/ρ
| {{IPA|/j/}} Ι/ι
|
|-
! colspan=2|Lateral
|
| {{IPA|/l~ɫ/}} Λ/λ
|
|}
Θ/θ is only used in the transcription of foreign words. There are also Ξ/ξ which is /ks/ and Ψ/ψ which is /ps/.

=== Vowels ===
The vowels are five cardinals plus schwa, any of which can be stressed. A/α is /a/, Ε/ε is /e/, Η/η is /i/, Ο/ο is /o~ɔ/, Υ/υ is /u/, and Ω/ω is /ǝ/.

=== Stress ===
Stress is predictable and right-defined.

== Morphology ==
Balkan nouns and adjectives inflect for 3 genders, 3 cases, and 2 numbers. Gender and case generally flatten in the plural. The cases are Nominative, Accusative, and Oblique. The oblique is governed by a preposition. There is a vocative preposition. The definite article is a postposition. The indefinite article is a preposition, but just a form of the number one.

=== Pronouns ===
T-V

{| class="wikitable"
| ||
! colspan="2" | Singular !! colspan="2" | Plural
|-
! rowspan="5" style="vertical-align:center;" | 1
! Nom.
| colspan="2" | υζ
| colspan="2" |νη
|-
! Acc.
| colspan="2" |μει
| colspan="2" |νας
|- style="text-align:center;"
! Acc.
| colspan="2" |με
| colspan="2" |να
|-
! Obl.
| colspan="2" |μην
| colspan="2" |νεμ
|- style="text-align:center;"
! Obl.
| colspan="2" |μη
| colspan="2" |νε
|-
! rowspan="5" style="vertical:align:center" | 2
! Nom.
| colspan="2" |τη
| colspan="2" |βη
|-
! Acc.
| colspan="2" |τει
| colspan="2" |βας
|- style="text-align:center;"
! Acc.
| colspan="2" |τε
| colspan="2" |βα
|-
! Obl.
| colspan="2" |την
| colspan="2" |βαμ
|- style="text-align:center;"
! Obl.
| colspan="2" |τη
| colspan="2" |βα
|-
! rowspan="5" style="vertical-align:center;" | 3
! Nom.
| ατη
| ετη
|-
! Acc.
| ατω
| ετω|
|- style="text-align:center;"
! Acc.

|-
! Obl.
|
|-
| ||
! Masc. !! Fem. !! Masc. !! Fem.
|}

== Syntax ==
SVO, Relative clauses after, Negations particle, evidential particles

== Lexicography ==

[[Category:Universal Languages]]