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{{Infobox language

|name = Brono-Fathanic

|nativename = barônea, barôny-fatanea faϑane, broń-faϑane

|nativename = (Bro.) barônea, barôny-fatanea (Fth.) faϑane, broń-faϑane (Moa.) mwåmahimbušihy, baruñ-fahanæ

|pronunciation = (Bro.) [baˈronea̯] [baˈronʲ ˈfatanea̯] (Fth.) [ˈfaθɐnə], [ˌbɾoɲ ˈfaθɐnə]

|pronunciation = (Bro.) baˈronea̯ [baˈronʲ ˈfatanea̯] (Fth.) [ˈfaθɐnə], [ˌbɾoɲ ˈfaθɐnə] (Moa.) [mwɔmahimbuˈɕiç], [baˈruɲ ˈfahanɛ

|~~region~~ = Central Márusúturon (Bronic plains)

|states = Central Márusúturon (Bronic plains)

|ethnicity = Bronic, Fathanic

|speakers = {{formatnum:51000000}}

|date = 6424 / 2312

|setting = [[Verse:Calémere|Calémere]]

|familycolor = ~~#F5A24F~~

|familycolor = Nilo-Saharan

|fam1 = Samaidulic languages

|fam2 = Eastern Samaidulic

|creator = [[User:Lili21~~|Lili21]]~~

|creator = User:Lili21

|created = Sep 2016

|script = (Bro.) Skyrdegan script for Bronic (Fth.) Skyrdegan script for Fathanic (Moa.) Chlouvānem script for Moamatemposisy ''(unofficial)''

|nation = Brono~~, Fathan~~, (regional) [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition|the Chlouvānem Inquisition]], Ylvostydh

|nation = ''as Bronic:'' Brono, (regional) [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition|the Chlouvānem Inquisition]], Ylvostydh ''as Fathanic:'' Fathan

}}

'''Brono-Fathanic''' (Bronic variant: ''barônea, barôny-fatanea'', fully ''ta fehoavana ta barôny-fatanea''; Fathanic variant: ''faϑane, broń-faϑane'', fully ''ta fihŏwan ta broń-faϑane''), usually just '''Bronic''' or '''Fathanic''', is a pluricentric [[Verse:Calémere|Calémerian]] language, spoken mainly in the two Márusúturonian countries of Brono (''Barôno, Bronu'') and Fathan (''Fatan, Faϑan'') and in the Chlouvānem diocese of Hivampaida (Bro.: ''Hivoafaida'', Fth.: ''Hivŏfayðe'') lying between them, and also, regionally, in the southern part of Ylvostydh. It is a Samaidulic language of the Eastern branch, thus distantly related with its western neighbor, [[Qualdomelic]] (Bro.: ''Koadromeali''; Fth.: ''Kwažumaey''; a Western Samaidulic language).

'''Brono-Fathanic''' (Bronic variant: ''barônea, barôny-fatanea'', fully ''ta fehoavana ta barôny-fatanea''; Fathanic variant: ''faϑane, broń-faϑane'', fully ''ta fihŏwan ta broń-faϑane''), usually just '''Bronic''' or '''Fathanic''', is a pluricentric [[Verse:Calémere|Calémerian]] language, spoken mainly in the two Márusúturonian countries of Brono (''Barôno, Bronu'') and Fathan (''Fatan, Faϑan'') and in the Chlouvānem diocese of Hivampaida (Moa.: ''Hiwåfaiha'', Bro.: ''Hivoafaida'', Fth.: ''Hivŏfayðe'') lying between them, and also, regionally, in the southern part of Ylvostydh. It is a Samaidulic language of the Eastern branch, thus distantly related with its western neighbor, [[Qualdomelic]] (Bro.: ''Koadromeali''; Fth.: ''Kwažumaey''; a Western Samaidulic language).

Of the two major variants of Brono-Fathanic, Bronic is by far the most spoken (amounting to 90% of Brono-Fathanic speakers) and phonologically the most conservative. Fathanic is the official standard in the country of Fathan and, anyway, constantly sees notable Bronic influence on it. Until a hundred years ago, the Bronic standard was official all throughout the Brono-Fathanic lands; it was only during the Kaiṣamā, when the pre-Nāɂahilūmi Bronic-speaking territory had been divided into two parts (Brono as an independent country, but inside the Union, while the rest (Fathan and present-day Hivampaida - the latter also containing the city of Moamatempony (''Måmatempuñih'' in [[Chlouvānem]]), at the time the largest of the Bronic-speaking world) had been annexed to the Chlouvānem Inquisition), that the ethnic diocese of Fathan started using as its official language the local dialect, Fathanic.

Of the two major variants of Brono-Fathanic, Bronic is by far the most spoken (amounting to 90% of Brono-Fathanic speakers<ref>Censuses of Brono and Fathan list Bronic and Fathanic as separate languages, but those of the Inquisition don't. Because of this, there is no reliable count of Moamatemposisy speakers, which are therefore counted with Bronic, as that is the officially taught standard in Hivampaida.</ref>) and phonologically the most conservative. Fathanic is the official standard in the country of Fathan and, anyway, constantly sees notable Bronic influence on it. Until a hundred years ago, the Bronic standard was official all throughout the Brono-Fathanic lands; it was only during the Kaiṣamā, when the pre-Nāɂahilūmi Bronic-speaking territory had been divided into two parts (Brono as an independent country, but inside the Union, while the rest (Fathan and present-day Hivampaida - the latter also containing the city of Moamatempony (''Måmatempuñih'' in [[Chlouvānem]]), at the time the largest of the Bronic-speaking world) had been annexed to the Chlouvānem Inquisition), that the ethnic diocese of Fathan started using as its official language the local dialect, Fathanic.

Hivampaida, meanwhile, had not been annexed to either Brono or Fathan and was not an ethnic diocese - about 60% of its Bronic-speaking population moved to either Brono or Fathan in the following decades and the influx of people from the rest of the Union (mainly Chlouvānem, but also many Taruebs and Soenyubi) meant that that area has been increasingly Chlouvānemized. When, in 6385 (39 years ago), Fathan became independent, predominantly Chlouvānem-speaking (but with a widespread Bronic vernacular) Hivampaida remained part of the Inquisition, as it still is.

A third Brono-Fathanic variant, '''Moamatemposisy''' (endonym ''ta fewåwanye ta ~~mwåmatimbušihy~~'', ''måmatempuñiyi dhāḍa'' in Chl.), is the local vernacular of the Chlouvānem diocese of Hivampaida, spoken by about 50% of people there. It has a de facto written standard, using the Chlouvānem script, commonly used by its speakers; however it is not officially regulated and the official standard of Brono-Fathanic used in the diocese is the Bronic one. Note that Hivampaida is not an ethnic diocese, but due to its border location Bronic and [[Skyrdagor]] are both commonly used in official contexts there (the city of Moamatempony is located on the 12 km wide Yvyslad Strait (Bro.: ''vy tantanane vy Ivisilade''; Chl.: ''eveṣlada ga šimbroe''; Sky. ''Yvyslad szelekthyv''), dividing the southernmost of the Skyrdegan islands from the mainland of Márusúturon).

A third Brono-Fathanic variant, '''Moamatemposisy''' (endonym ''ta fewåwanye ta mwåmahimbušihy'', ''måmatempuñiyi dhāḍa'' in Chl.), is the local vernacular of the Chlouvānem diocese of Hivampaida, spoken by about 50% of people there. It has a de facto written standard, using the Chlouvānem script, commonly used by its speakers; however it is not officially regulated and the official standard of Brono-Fathanic used in the diocese is the Bronic one. Note that Hivampaida is not an ethnic diocese, but due to its border location Bronic and [[Skyrdagor]] are both commonly used in official contexts there (the city of Moamatempony is located on the 12 km wide Yvyslad Strait (Bro.: ''vy tantanane vy Ivisilade''; Chl.: ''eveṣlada ga šimbroe''; Sky. ''Yvyslad szelekthyv''), dividing the southernmost of the Skyrdegan islands from the mainland of Márusúturon).

==The Bronic-speaking area==

The Bronic speaking area is a large plain area - with some noticeable hilly areas inside - on the southern coast of the Skyrdegan Inner Sea, just south of the main islands of Skyrdagor. The whole area reaches from 42ºN (northern Fathan) to 33°N (the southernmost tip of Hivampaida, not too distant from the southernmost tip of Brono). The area stretches inland at most about 1000 km (in eastern Brono) and at least 150 (northern Fathan); the climate in most of the area is defined as humid subtropical, sheltered from the colder northern winds by the Skyrdegan islands, but also out of reach from tropical influences because of the over 6000 m high plateaus to the south (the southern third of Hivampaida is part of this plateau area) - it mostly continues the mediterranean climate of Qualdomailor, but is markedly more humid and, especially in inland Brono and most of Fathan, winters can be chilly with occasional bursts of frost from the northern winds. Snow falls in most of Fathan and parts of inland Brono, but almost never at sea level.

[[File:Bronosphere.png|thumb|The Bronic-speaking area of Calémere.]]

The Bronic speaking area is a large plain area - with some noticeable hilly areas inside - on the southern coast of the Skyrdegan Inner Sea, just south of the main islands of Skyrdagor. The whole area reaches from 42ºN (northern Fathan) to 33°N (the southernmost tip of Hivampaida, not too distant from the southernmost tip of Brono). The area stretches inland at most about 1000 km (in eastern Brono) and at least 150 (northern Fathan); the climate in most of the area is defined as humid subtropical, sheltered from the colder northern winds by the Skyrdegan islands, but also out of reach from tropical influences because of the over 6000 m high plateaus to the south (the southern third of Hivampaida, though lower, is part of this plateau area) - it mostly continues the mediterranean climate of Qualdomailor, but is markedly more humid and, especially in inland Brono and most of Fathan, winters can be chilly with occasional bursts of frost from the northern winds. Snow falls in most of Fathan and parts of inland Brono, but almost never at sea level.

Brono and Fathan are homogeneously Brono-Fathanic-speaking, with dialects of the language forming a continuum throughout the area, with a moderately high mutual intellegibility between the most extreme forms; the main minority language is Gorjonur Skyrdagor in Fathan - the language of neighboring Gorjan - and Chlouvānem (incl. daughter languages) in Brono. Hivampaida is mostly diglossic, with classical Chlouvānem being the lingua franca but Moamatemposisy, a Bronic variant, being the vernacular of about half of the population. Note, though, that southern Hivampaida, despite ultimately being a highland basin drained by the river Hŏrlaš (Bro.: ''Hoarelasy'', Chl.: ''Hårelasih''), the major river of Fathan, is mostly devoid of Brono-Fathanic speakers.

Brono and Fathan are homogeneously Brono-Fathanic-speaking, with dialects of the language forming a continuum throughout the area, with a moderately high mutual intellegibility between the most extreme forms; the main minority language is Gorjonur Skyrdagor in Fathan - the language of neighboring Gorjan - and Chlouvānem (incl. daughter languages) in Brono. Hivampaida is mostly diglossic, with classical Chlouvānem being the lingua franca but Moamatemposisy, a Bronic variant, being the vernacular of about half of the population. Note, though, that southern Hivampaida, despite ultimately being a highland basin drained by the river Hŏrlaš (Bro.: ''Hoarelasy'', Chl.: ''Hårelasih''), the major river of Fathan, is mostly devoid of Brono-Fathanic speakers<ref>Brono-Fathanic speakers in the upper Hŏrlaš valley have always been mostly limited to some riverside towns closer to Fathan; the valley has historically been mostly Fargulyn-speaking, and even the Bronic annexation did not bring much Bronic settlement. Today various Fargulyn languages (all of them of the Karaskyr branch) are the rural vernaculars, while Chlouvānem is the urban one, even if Standard Bronic is a compulsory school subject in the whole of Hivampaida, including those areas.</ref>.

==Phonology==

===Orthography===

Both Bronic and Fathanic are written with their adaptation of the Skyrdegan alphabet, which uses almost the same letterforms as [[Skyrdagor]], except for the '''r''' glyph which is a different semplification of a more archaic common glyph. Fathanic uses some diacritics in addition to it. Moamatemposisy is commonly written with an adaptation of the Chlouvānem abugida, using the glyphs for '''ph''' and '''v''' (which, in Chlouvānem, represent /pʰ ʋ/, absent from Moamatemposisy) to represent the phonemes /f w/ which do not exist in Chlouvānem. Accordingly, they are romanized as '''f w'''. This is however only done in an informal level (chats and shops), while on street signs and in all formal and official uses the written standard used is Standard Bronic, even if read with a markedly Moamatemposisy pronunciation. Moamatemposisy is transcribed and subtitled as Bronic in Brono and the Inquisition, but as Fathanic in Fathan.

===Consonants===

~~'''Bronic:'''~~

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"

|+ Bronic consonant phonemes

|-

! → PoA ↓ Manner !! Labial !! Labiodental !! Dentoalveolar !! Retroflex !! Palatal !! Velar !! Glottal

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| || || || || '''y''' j || ||

|}

/j/ is only phonemic in loanwords - which come predominantly from Chlouvānem, Skyrdagor, or (a minority) from Qualdomelic.

~~'''Fathanic:'''~~

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"

|+ Fathanic consonant phonemes

|-

! → PoA ↓ Manner !! Labial !! Labiodental !! Dentoalveolar !! Palatoalveolar !! Palatal !! Velar !! Glottal

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| || || || || '''y''' j || '''v''' w ||

|}

The phonemic status of /θ/ and /x/ is disputed, as they can be analyzed as intervocalic allophones of /t/ and /k/ respectively, but in present-day Fathanic, often also represented orthographically, vowel syncope has meant that they are not intervocalic anymore. Intervocalic /p/ similarly becomes [f], but /f/ was already a Fathanic phoneme.

~~The phonemic status of~~ /θ/ ~~and~~ /x/ ~~is disputed~~, ~~as they can be analyzed as~~ intervocalic ~~allophones~~ of /t/ and /k/ ~~respectively, but in present-day Fathanic, often also represented orthographically, vowel syncope has meant that they are not intervocalic anymore. Intervocalic~~ /p/ ~~similarly becomes~~ [f]~~, but~~ /f/ ~~was already a Fathanic phoneme~~.

Moamatemposisy has an inventory similar to Fathanic, but merges intervocalic /θ ð/ with /h/ into the latter, and does not lenite intervocalic /k/. Young speakers of Moamatemposisy may merge /ŋ/ and /l/ into /ɴ̆/ and use [ʀ] for /r/ because of greater Chlouvānem influence.

===Vowels===

~~'''Bronic:'''~~

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"

|+ Bronic vowel phonemes

|-

! !! Front !! Central !! Back

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| '''ea''' ea̯ || || '''oa''' wa

|}

/o/ is a fairly marginal phoneme, only appearing in stressed syllables; many people merge it with /u/ in all but a few words (a notable one always pronounced with /o/ is ''Barôno'' "Brono" /baˈronu/ and all derivates).

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Bronic, in stark contrast to Fathanic, has almost no vowel reduction in unstressed syllables: only pretonic /a/ is reduced to [ə], but only if the tonic vowel is /e o a/.

~~'''Fathanic:'''~~

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"

|+ Fathanic vowel phonemes

|-

! !! Front !! Central !! Back

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| || '''a''' a ||

|}

Phonemically, the inventory of Fathanic may be said to be essentially the same as the Bronic one, as Fathanic /ɛ ɔ/ almost always correspond perfectly to instances of /ea̯ wa/ in Bronic. The most notable phonetic difference, however, is that Fathan features notable vowel reduction in unstressed syllables, which is nearly absent in Bronic.

Moamatemposisy is closer to Fathanic (except for the lack of syncope) than standard Bronic, but has the "intermediate stage" /wɔ/ for Bronic /wa/ and Fathanic /ɔ/, and fully merges /o u/ into the latter. Bronic unstressed /e/ also shifts to /i/ if surrounded by non-front vowels (cf. the city it takes its name from: Br. ''Moamatempony'' [mwamatemˈpunʲ], Fath. ''Mŏmϑempuń'' [mɔnθemˈpuɲ], Moam. ''Mwåmahimpuñ'' [mwɔmahimˈpuɲ]).

===Prosody===

====Stress====

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===Morphophonology===

==Morphology==

===Nouns===

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==Vocabulary==

===Imuniguro-Xenic stock===

Brono-Fathanic is one of the main Imuniguro-Xenic languages, that is, those with a high number of Chlouvānem loans with regular sound correspondences and using Chlouvānem roots and words for building new words. This table shows the sound correspondences between Chlouvānem and Imuniguro-Xenic standard Bronic and Fathanic; Moamatemposisy is not included as it, existing virtually only in diglossia with Chlouvānem itself, is more prone to have speakers directly importing the Chlouvānem term with the same pronunciation:

{| class="wikitable"

|-

! [[Chlouvānem]] !! Bronic (early religious loans) !! Bronic (Imuniguro-Xenic) !! Fathanic (early religious loans) !! Fathanic (Imuniguro-Xenic)

|-

! m

| colspan=2 | m || colspan=2 | m

|-

! n, ṇ

| colspan=2 | n || colspan=2 | n

|-

! ñ

| colspan=2 | ni ny (word-finally) || colspan=2 | ń ni (before consonants)

|-

! ṃ

| colspan=2 | g || colspan=2 | ŋ

|-

! p, ph

| colspan=2 | p || colspan=2 | p f (intervocalic)

|-

! t, th

| colspan=2 | t || colspan=2 | t ϑ (intervocalic)

|-

! ṭ, ṭh, c, ch

| colspan=2 | tr || colspan=2 | č

|-

! k, kh

| colspan=2 | k || colspan=2 | k kh (intervocalic)

|-

! ɂ, ƾ

| colspan=2 | ∅ || colspan=2 | ∅

|-

! b, bh

| colspan=2 | b || colspan=2 | b

|-

! d, dh

| colspan=2 | d || colspan=2 | d ð (intervocalic)

|-

! ḍ, ḍh, j, jh

| colspan=2 | dr || colspan=2 | ž

|-

! g, gh

| colspan=2 | k || colspan=2 | k kh (intervocalic)

|-

! s

| colspan=2 | s ∅ (as part of -Vs direct case endings) || colspan=2 | s ∅ (as part of -Vs direct case endings)

|-

! ṣ, š

| colspan=2 | si sy (word-finally) || colspan=2 | š(i)

|-

! h, ħ

| colspan=2 | h || colspan=2 | h

|-

! v

| colspan=2 | v o (before consonants) || colspan=2 | v

|-

! y

| colspan=2 | y || colspan=2 | y

|-

! r

| colspan=2 | r || colspan=2 | r

|-

! l

| l || g || l || ŋ

|-

! i, į, ī

| colspan=2 | i y (word-finally) || colspan=2 | i

|-

! u, ų, ū

| colspan=2 | o || colspan=2 | u

|-

! e, ę, ē

| colspan=2 | e || colspan=2 | e

|-

! o, å

| colspan=2 | ao || colspan=2 | ŏ

|-

! æ, ǣ

| colspan=2 | ea || colspan=2 | ae

|-

! a, ą, ā

| colspan=2 | a || colspan=2 | a vŏ (vā sequences)

|-

! ai, ąi

| colspan=2 | ay || colspan=2 | ay

|-

! ei, ęi

| colspan=2 | ey || colspan=2 | ey

|-

! oe

| colspan=2 | oe || colspan=2 | ŏy

|-

! au, ąu

| colspan=2 | ao || colspan=2 | aw

|-

! ṛ, ṝ

| colspan=2 | ri || colspan=2 | ri

|}

Chlouvānem clusters not permitted in Bronic or Fathanic (virtually all except for mC and nC; rC is however permitted in Fathanic. Cy clusters do not exist in native words, but are permitted in Imuniguro-Xenic ones) are broken by echoing the preceding vowel, or '''e''' in the first syllable. Non-long final vowels are virtually always dropped in Fathanic. Some examples of Imuniguro-Xenic vocabulary; the first term after the arrow is Bronic, the second is Fathanic:

* ''yunyalīlta'' → ''yonyalilita'', ''yuńaliliϑ'' ([[Verse:Yunyalīlta|Yunyalīlta]])

* ''lillamurḍhyā'' → ''lilamorodya'', ''lilamordya'' (Lillamurḍhyā)

* ''lārvājuṣa'' → ''laroadrusia'', ''larvŏžuš'' (Yunyalīlti temple)

* ''līvas'' → ''giva'', ''ŋiva'' (apartment)

* ''ṣarivāṇa'' → ''siarivana'', ''šarivan'' (State)

* ''haloe'' → ''hagoe'' (name, signature), ''haŋŏy'' (signature)

* ''juṃšañāña'' → ''drugsianiany'', ''žuŋšańań'' (diocese)

* ''ṣramāṇa'' → ''siramana'', ''širaman'' (province)

* ''maišildāryai'' → ''maysigdariay'', ''mayšiŋdaryay'' (exhibition grounds) (pl. tantum in Chl., sing. in Bronic and Fath.)

* ''kamelšītah'' → ''kamegsita'', ''kameŋšiϑa'' (hall)

* ''jānilšeidah'' → ''dranigsieyda'', ''žaniŋšeyð'' ([[Verse:Chlouvānem_Inquisition#Monastic_Orders_and_Legions|legion]])

* ''dhurvālāṇa'' → ''duroagana'', ''durvŏŋan'' (police)

* ''pahēšhānī'' → ''pahesihany'', ''pahešihańi'' (Liturgical College)

===Time===

→ ''See [[Chlouvānem/Calendar and time|Chlouvānem calendar]] for a description of the units of time named here.''

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# ''igameasena'' (Īlāmyasena)

# ''heaviyasena'' (Hælvyāsena)

# ''~~tramimetre~~'' (~~Camimæchliė~~)

# ''tramirada'' (Camirādhās)

====Days====

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 {{Infobox language
 |name          = Brono-Fathanic
-|nativename       = barônea, barôny-fatanea<br/>faϑane, broń-faϑane
+|nativename       = <small>(Bro.)</small> barônea, barôny-fatanea<br/><small>(Fth.)</small> faϑane, broń-faϑane<br/><small>(Moa.)</small> mwåmahimbušihy, baruñ-fahanæ
-|pronunciation = <small>(Bro.)</small> [baˈronea̯] [baˈronʲ ˈfatanea̯]<br/><small>(Fth.)</small> [ˈfaθɐnə], [ˌbɾoɲ ˈfaθɐnə]
+|pronunciation = <small>(Bro.)</small> baˈronea̯ [baˈronʲ ˈfatanea̯]<br/><small>(Fth.)</small> [ˈfaθɐnə], [ˌbɾoɲ ˈfaθɐnə]<br/><small>(Moa.)</small> [mwɔmahimbuˈɕiç], [baˈruɲ ˈfahanɛ
-|region        = Central Márusúturon (Bronic plains)
+|states        = Central Márusúturon (Bronic plains)
 |ethnicity     = Bronic, Fathanic
 |speakers      = {{formatnum:51000000}}
 |date          = 6424 / 2312
 |setting       = [[Verse:Calémere|Calémere]]
-|familycolor   = #F5A24F
+|familycolor   = Nilo-Saharan
 |fam1          = Samaidulic languages
 |fam2          = Eastern Samaidulic
-|creator       = [[User:Lili21|Lili21]]
+|creator       = User:Lili21
 |created       = Sep 2016
 |script        = <small>(Bro.)</small> Skyrdegan script for Bronic<br/><small>(Fth.)</small> Skyrdegan script for Fathanic<br/><small>(Moa.)</small> Chlouvānem script for Moamatemposisy ''(unofficial)''
-|nation        = Brono, Fathan, <small>(regional)</small> [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition|the Chlouvānem Inquisition]], Ylvostydh
+|nation        = ''as Bronic:'' Brono, <small>(regional)</small> [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition|the Chlouvānem Inquisition]], Ylvostydh<br/>''as Fathanic:'' Fathan
 }}
-'''Brono-Fathanic''' (Bronic variant: ''barônea, barôny-fatanea'', fully ''ta fehoavana ta barôny-fatanea''; Fathanic variant: ''faϑane, broń-faϑane'', fully ''ta fihŏwan ta broń-faϑane''), usually just '''Bronic''' or '''Fathanic''', is a pluricentric [[Verse:Calémere|Calémerian]] language, spoken mainly in the two Márusúturonian countries of Brono (''Barôno, Bronu'') and Fathan (''Fatan, Faϑan'') and in the Chlouvānem diocese of Hivampaida (Bro.: ''Hivoafaida'', Fth.: ''Hivŏfayðe'') lying between them, and also, regionally, in the southern part of Ylvostydh.<br/>It is a Samaidulic language of the Eastern branch, thus distantly related with its western neighbor, [[Qualdomelic]] (Bro.: ''Koadromeali''; Fth.: ''Kwažumaey''; a Western Samaidulic language).
+'''Brono-Fathanic''' (Bronic variant: ''barônea, barôny-fatanea'', fully ''ta fehoavana ta barôny-fatanea''; Fathanic variant: ''faϑane, broń-faϑane'', fully ''ta fihŏwan ta broń-faϑane''), usually just '''Bronic''' or '''Fathanic''', is a pluricentric [[Verse:Calémere|Calémerian]] language, spoken mainly in the two Márusúturonian countries of Brono (''Barôno, Bronu'') and Fathan (''Fatan, Faϑan'') and in the Chlouvānem diocese of Hivampaida (Moa.: ''Hiwåfaiha'', Bro.: ''Hivoafaida'', Fth.: ''Hivŏfayðe'') lying between them, and also, regionally, in the southern part of Ylvostydh.<br/>It is a Samaidulic language of the Eastern branch, thus distantly related with its western neighbor, [[Qualdomelic]] (Bro.: ''Koadromeali''; Fth.: ''Kwažumaey''; a Western Samaidulic language).
-Of the two major variants of Brono-Fathanic, Bronic is by far the most spoken (amounting to 90% of Brono-Fathanic speakers) and phonologically the most conservative. Fathanic is the official standard in the country of Fathan and, anyway, constantly sees notable Bronic influence on it. Until a hundred years ago, the Bronic standard was official all throughout the Brono-Fathanic lands; it was only during the Kaiṣamā, when the pre-Nāɂahilūmi Bronic-speaking territory had been divided into two parts (Brono as an independent country, but inside the Union, while the rest (Fathan and present-day Hivampaida - the latter also containing the city of Moamatempony (''Måmatempuñih'' in [[Chlouvānem]]), at the time the largest of the Bronic-speaking world) had been annexed to the Chlouvānem Inquisition), that the ethnic diocese of Fathan started using as its official language the local dialect, Fathanic.<br/>
+Of the two major variants of Brono-Fathanic, Bronic is by far the most spoken (amounting to 90% of Brono-Fathanic speakers<ref>Censuses of Brono and Fathan list Bronic and Fathanic as separate languages, but those of the Inquisition don't. Because of this, there is no reliable count of Moamatemposisy speakers, which are therefore counted with Bronic, as that is the officially taught standard in Hivampaida.</ref>) and phonologically the most conservative. Fathanic is the official standard in the country of Fathan and, anyway, constantly sees notable Bronic influence on it. Until a hundred years ago, the Bronic standard was official all throughout the Brono-Fathanic lands; it was only during the Kaiṣamā, when the pre-Nāɂahilūmi Bronic-speaking territory had been divided into two parts (Brono as an independent country, but inside the Union, while the rest (Fathan and present-day Hivampaida - the latter also containing the city of Moamatempony (''Måmatempuñih'' in [[Chlouvānem]]), at the time the largest of the Bronic-speaking world) had been annexed to the Chlouvānem Inquisition), that the ethnic diocese of Fathan started using as its official language the local dialect, Fathanic.<br/>
 Hivampaida, meanwhile, had not been annexed to either Brono or Fathan and was not an ethnic diocese - about 60% of its Bronic-speaking population moved to either Brono or Fathan in the following decades and the influx of people from the rest of the Union (mainly Chlouvānem, but also many Taruebs and Soenyubi) meant that that area has been increasingly Chlouvānemized. When, in 6385 (39 years ago), Fathan became independent, predominantly Chlouvānem-speaking (but with a widespread Bronic vernacular) Hivampaida remained part of the Inquisition, as it still is.
-A third Brono-Fathanic variant, '''Moamatemposisy''' (endonym ''ta fewåwanye ta mwåmatimbušihy'', ''måmatempuñiyi dhāḍa'' in Chl.), is the local vernacular of the Chlouvānem diocese of Hivampaida, spoken by about 50% of people there. It has a de facto written standard, using the Chlouvānem script, commonly used by its speakers; however it is not officially regulated and the official standard of Brono-Fathanic used in the diocese is the Bronic one. Note that Hivampaida is not an ethnic diocese, but due to its border location Bronic and [[Skyrdagor]] are both commonly used in official contexts there (the city of Moamatempony is located on the 12 km wide Yvyslad Strait (Bro.: ''vy tantanane vy Ivisilade''; Chl.: ''eveṣlada ga šimbroe''; Sky. ''Yvyslad szelekthyv''), dividing the southernmost of the Skyrdegan islands from the mainland of Márusúturon).
+A third Brono-Fathanic variant, '''Moamatemposisy''' (endonym ''ta fewåwanye ta mwåmahimbušihy'', ''måmatempuñiyi dhāḍa'' in Chl.), is the local vernacular of the Chlouvānem diocese of Hivampaida, spoken by about 50% of people there. It has a de facto written standard, using the Chlouvānem script, commonly used by its speakers; however it is not officially regulated and the official standard of Brono-Fathanic used in the diocese is the Bronic one. Note that Hivampaida is not an ethnic diocese, but due to its border location Bronic and [[Skyrdagor]] are both commonly used in official contexts there (the city of Moamatempony is located on the 12 km wide Yvyslad Strait (Bro.: ''vy tantanane vy Ivisilade''; Chl.: ''eveṣlada ga šimbroe''; Sky. ''Yvyslad szelekthyv''), dividing the southernmost of the Skyrdegan islands from the mainland of Márusúturon).
 ==The Bronic-speaking area==
-The Bronic speaking area is a large plain area - with some noticeable hilly areas inside - on the southern coast of the Skyrdegan Inner Sea, just south of the main islands of Skyrdagor. The whole area reaches from 42ºN (northern Fathan) to 33°N (the southernmost tip of Hivampaida, not too distant from the southernmost tip of Brono). The area stretches inland at most about 1000 km (in eastern Brono) and at least 150 (northern Fathan); the climate in most of the area is defined as humid subtropical, sheltered from the colder northern winds by the Skyrdegan islands, but also out of reach from tropical influences because of the over 6000 m high plateaus to the south (the southern third of Hivampaida is part of this plateau area) - it mostly continues the mediterranean climate of Qualdomailor, but is markedly more humid and, especially in inland Brono and most of Fathan, winters can be chilly with occasional bursts of frost from the northern winds. Snow falls in most of Fathan and parts of inland Brono, but almost never at sea level.
+[[File:Bronosphere.png|thumb|The Bronic-speaking area of Calémere.]]
+The Bronic speaking area is a large plain area - with some noticeable hilly areas inside - on the southern coast of the Skyrdegan Inner Sea, just south of the main islands of Skyrdagor. The whole area reaches from 42ºN (northern Fathan) to 33°N (the southernmost tip of Hivampaida, not too distant from the southernmost tip of Brono). The area stretches inland at most about 1000 km (in eastern Brono) and at least 150 (northern Fathan); the climate in most of the area is defined as humid subtropical, sheltered from the colder northern winds by the Skyrdegan islands, but also out of reach from tropical influences because of the over 6000 m high plateaus to the south (the southern third of Hivampaida, though lower, is part of this plateau area) - it mostly continues the mediterranean climate of Qualdomailor, but is markedly more humid and, especially in inland Brono and most of Fathan, winters can be chilly with occasional bursts of frost from the northern winds. Snow falls in most of Fathan and parts of inland Brono, but almost never at sea level.
-Brono and Fathan are homogeneously Brono-Fathanic-speaking, with dialects of the language forming a continuum throughout the area, with a moderately high mutual intellegibility between the most extreme forms; the main minority language is Gorjonur Skyrdagor in Fathan - the language of neighboring Gorjan - and Chlouvānem (incl. daughter languages) in Brono. Hivampaida is mostly diglossic, with classical Chlouvānem being the lingua franca but Moamatemposisy, a Bronic variant, being the vernacular of about half of the population. Note, though, that southern Hivampaida, despite ultimately being a highland basin drained by the river Hŏrlaš (Bro.: ''Hoarelasy'', Chl.: ''Hårelasih''), the major river of Fathan, is mostly devoid of Brono-Fathanic speakers.
+Brono and Fathan are homogeneously Brono-Fathanic-speaking, with dialects of the language forming a continuum throughout the area, with a moderately high mutual intellegibility between the most extreme forms; the main minority language is Gorjonur Skyrdagor in Fathan - the language of neighboring Gorjan - and Chlouvānem (incl. daughter languages) in Brono. Hivampaida is mostly diglossic, with classical Chlouvānem being the lingua franca but Moamatemposisy, a Bronic variant, being the vernacular of about half of the population. Note, though, that southern Hivampaida, despite ultimately being a highland basin drained by the river Hŏrlaš (Bro.: ''Hoarelasy'', Chl.: ''Hårelasih''), the major river of Fathan, is mostly devoid of Brono-Fathanic speakers<ref>Brono-Fathanic speakers in the upper Hŏrlaš valley have always been mostly limited to some riverside towns closer to Fathan; the valley has historically been mostly Fargulyn-speaking, and even the Bronic annexation did not bring much Bronic settlement. Today various Fargulyn languages (all of them of the Karaskyr branch) are the rural vernaculars, while Chlouvānem is the urban one, even if Standard Bronic is a compulsory school subject in the whole of Hivampaida, including those areas.</ref>.
 ==Phonology==
 ===Orthography===
+Both Bronic and Fathanic are written with their adaptation of the Skyrdegan alphabet, which uses almost the same letterforms as [[Skyrdagor]], except for the '''r''' glyph which is a different semplification of a more archaic common glyph. Fathanic uses some diacritics in addition to it.<br/>Moamatemposisy is commonly written with an adaptation of the Chlouvānem abugida, using the glyphs for '''ph''' and '''v''' (which, in Chlouvānem, represent /pʰ ʋ/, absent from Moamatemposisy) to represent the phonemes /f w/ which do not exist in Chlouvānem. Accordingly, they are romanized as '''f w'''. This is however only done in an informal level (chats and shops), while on street signs and in all formal and official uses the written standard used is Standard Bronic, even if read with a markedly Moamatemposisy pronunciation. Moamatemposisy is transcribed and subtitled as Bronic in Brono and the Inquisition, but as Fathanic in Fathan.
 ===Consonants===
-'''Bronic:'''
+{{col-begin}}
+{{col-break}}
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+|+ Bronic consonant phonemes
 |-
 ! → PoA <br/> ↓ Manner !! Labial !! Labiodental !! Dentoalveolar !! Retroflex !! Palatal !! Velar !! Glottal
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 | || || || || '''y''' j || ||
 |}
+{{col-break|valign=middle}}
 /j/ is only phonemic in loanwords - which come predominantly from Chlouvānem, Skyrdagor, or (a minority) from Qualdomelic.
+{{col-break}}
-'''Fathanic:'''
+{{col-end}}
+{{col-begin}}
+{{col-break}}
 {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
+|+ Fathanic consonant phonemes
 |-
 ! → PoA <br/> ↓ Manner !! Labial !! Labiodental !! Dentoalveolar !! Palatoalveolar !! Palatal !! Velar !! Glottal
@@ Line 82: / Line 89: @@
 | || || || || '''y''' j || '''v''' w ||
 |}
+{{col-break|valign=middle}}
+The phonemic status of /θ/ and /x/ is disputed, as they can be analyzed as intervocalic allophones of /t/ and /k/ respectively, but in present-day Fathanic, often also represented orthographically, vowel syncope has meant that they are not intervocalic anymore. Intervocalic /p/ similarly becomes [f], but /f/ was already a Fathanic phoneme.
-The phonemic status of /θ/ and /x/ is disputed, as they can be analyzed as intervocalic allophones of /t/ and /k/ respectively, but in present-day Fathanic, often also represented orthographically, vowel syncope has meant that they are not intervocalic anymore. Intervocalic /p/ similarly becomes [f], but /f/ was already a Fathanic phoneme.
+Moamatemposisy has an inventory similar to Fathanic, but merges intervocalic /θ ð/ with /h/ into the latter, and does not lenite intervocalic /k/. Young speakers of Moamatemposisy may merge /ŋ/ and /l/ into /ɴ̆/ and use [ʀ] for /r/ because of greater Chlouvānem influence.
+{{col-break}}
+{{col-end}}
 ===Vowels===
-'''Bronic:'''
+{{col-begin}}
+{{col-break}}
 {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
+|+ Bronic vowel phonemes
 |-
 !  !! Front !! Central !! Back
@@ Line 103: / Line 116: @@
 | '''ea''' ea̯ || || '''oa''' wa
 |}
+{{col-break|valign=middle}}
 /o/ is a fairly marginal phoneme, only appearing in stressed syllables; many people merge it with /u/ in all but a few words (a notable one always pronounced with /o/ is ''Barôno'' "Brono" /baˈronu/ and all derivates).
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 Bronic, in stark contrast to Fathanic, has almost no vowel reduction in unstressed syllables: only pretonic /a/ is reduced to [ə], but only if the tonic vowel is /e o a/.
+{{col-break}}
-'''Fathanic:'''
+{{col-end}}
+{{col-begin}}
+{{col-break}}
 {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
+|+ Fathanic vowel phonemes
 |-
 !  !! Front !! Central !! Back
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 | || '''a''' a ||
 |}
+{{col-break|valign=middle}}
 Phonemically, the inventory of Fathanic may be said to be essentially the same as the Bronic one, as Fathanic /ɛ ɔ/ almost always correspond perfectly to instances of /ea̯ wa/ in Bronic. The most notable phonetic difference, however, is that Fathan features notable vowel reduction in unstressed syllables, which is nearly absent in Bronic.
+Moamatemposisy is closer to Fathanic (except for the lack of syncope) than standard Bronic, but has the "intermediate stage" /wɔ/ for Bronic /wa/ and Fathanic /ɔ/, and fully merges /o u/ into the latter. Bronic unstressed /e/ also shifts to /i/ if surrounded by non-front vowels (cf. the city it takes its name from: Br. ''Moamatempony'' [mwamatemˈpunʲ], Fath. ''Mŏmϑempuń'' [mɔnθemˈpuɲ], Moam. ''Mwåmahimpuñ'' [mwɔmahimˈpuɲ]).
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+{{col-end}}
 ===Prosody===
 ====Stress====
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 <!-- Explain the consonant clusters and vowel clusters that are permissible for use in the language. For example, "st" is an allowed consonant cluster in English while onset "ng" isn't. -->
 ===Morphophonology===
 ==Morphology==
 ===Nouns===
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 ==Vocabulary==
+===Imuniguro-Xenic stock===
+Brono-Fathanic is one of the main Imuniguro-Xenic languages, that is, those with a high number of Chlouvānem loans with regular sound correspondences and using Chlouvānem roots and words for building new words. This table shows the sound correspondences between Chlouvānem and Imuniguro-Xenic standard Bronic and Fathanic; Moamatemposisy is not included as it, existing virtually only in diglossia with Chlouvānem itself, is more prone to have speakers directly importing the Chlouvānem term with the same pronunciation:
+{| class="wikitable"
+|-
+! [[Chlouvānem]] !! Bronic<br/>(early religious loans) !! Bronic<br/>(Imuniguro-Xenic) !! Fathanic<br/>(early religious loans) !! Fathanic<br/>(Imuniguro-Xenic)
+|-
+! m
+| colspan=2 | m || colspan=2 | m
+|-
+! n, ṇ
+| colspan=2 | n || colspan=2 | n
+|-
+! ñ
+| colspan=2 | ni<br/>ny (word-finally) || colspan=2 | ń<br/>ni (before consonants)
+|-
+! ṃ
+| colspan=2 | g || colspan=2 | ŋ
+|-
+! p, ph
+| colspan=2 | p || colspan=2 | p<br/>f (intervocalic)
+|-
+! t, th
+| colspan=2 | t || colspan=2 | t<br/>ϑ (intervocalic)
+|-
+! ṭ, ṭh, c, ch
+| colspan=2 | tr || colspan=2 | č
+|-
+! k, kh
+| colspan=2 | k || colspan=2 | k<br/>kh (intervocalic)
+|-
+! ɂ, ƾ
+| colspan=2 | ∅ || colspan=2 | ∅
+|-
+! b, bh
+| colspan=2 | b || colspan=2 | b
+|-
+! d, dh
+| colspan=2 | d || colspan=2 | d<br/>ð (intervocalic)
+|-
+! ḍ, ḍh, j, jh
+| colspan=2 | dr || colspan=2 | ž
+|-
+! g, gh
+| colspan=2 | k || colspan=2 | k<br/>kh (intervocalic)
+|-
+! s
+| colspan=2 | s<br/>∅ (as part of -Vs direct case endings) || colspan=2 | s<br/>∅ (as part of -Vs direct case endings)
+|-
+! ṣ, š
+| colspan=2 | si<br/>sy (word-finally) || colspan=2 | š(i)
+|-
+! h, ħ
+| colspan=2 | h || colspan=2 | h
+|-
+! v
+| colspan=2 | v<br/>o (before consonants) || colspan=2 | v
+|-
+! y
+| colspan=2 | y || colspan=2 | y
+|-
+! r
+| colspan=2 | r || colspan=2 | r
+|-
+! l
+| l || g || l || ŋ
+|-
+! i, į, ī
+| colspan=2 | i<br/>y (word-finally) || colspan=2 | i
+|-
+! u, ų, ū
+| colspan=2 | o || colspan=2 | u
+|-
+! e, ę, ē
+| colspan=2 | e || colspan=2 | e
+|-
+! o, å
+| colspan=2 | ao || colspan=2 | ŏ
+|-
+! æ, ǣ
+| colspan=2 | ea || colspan=2 | ae
+|-
+! a, ą, ā
+| colspan=2 | a || colspan=2 | a<br/>vŏ (vā sequences)
+|-
+! ai, ąi
+| colspan=2 | ay || colspan=2 | ay
+|-
+! ei, ęi
+| colspan=2 | ey || colspan=2 | ey
+|-
+! oe
+| colspan=2 | oe || colspan=2 | ŏy
+|-
+! au, ąu
+| colspan=2 | ao || colspan=2 | aw
+|-
+! ṛ, ṝ
+| colspan=2 | ri || colspan=2 | ri
+|}
+Chlouvānem clusters not permitted in Bronic or Fathanic (virtually all except for mC and nC; rC is however permitted in Fathanic. Cy clusters do not exist in native words, but are permitted in Imuniguro-Xenic ones) are broken by echoing the preceding vowel, or '''e''' in the first syllable. Non-long final vowels are virtually always dropped in Fathanic. Some examples of Imuniguro-Xenic vocabulary; the first term after the arrow is Bronic, the second is Fathanic:
+* ''yunyalīlta'' → ''yonyalilita'', ''yuńaliliϑ'' ([[Verse:Yunyalīlta|Yunyalīlta]])
+* ''lillamurḍhyā'' → ''lilamorodya'', ''lilamordya'' (Lillamurḍhyā)
+* ''lārvājuṣa'' → ''laroadrusia'', ''larvŏžuš'' (Yunyalīlti temple)
+* ''līvas'' → ''giva'', ''ŋiva'' (apartment)
+* ''ṣarivāṇa'' → ''siarivana'', ''šarivan'' (State)
+* ''haloe'' → ''hagoe'' (name, signature), ''haŋŏy'' (signature)
+* ''juṃšañāña'' → ''drugsianiany'', ''žuŋšańań'' (diocese)
+* ''ṣramāṇa'' → ''siramana'', ''širaman'' (province)
+* ''maišildāryai'' → ''maysigdariay'', ''mayšiŋdaryay'' (exhibition grounds) <small>(pl. tantum in Chl., sing. in Bronic and Fath.)</small>
+* ''kamelšītah'' → ''kamegsita'', ''kameŋšiϑa'' (hall)
+* ''jānilšeidah'' → ''dranigsieyda'', ''žaniŋšeyð'' ([[Verse:Chlouvānem_Inquisition#Monastic_Orders_and_Legions|legion]])
+* ''dhurvālāṇa'' → ''duroagana'', ''durvŏŋan'' (police)
+* ''pahēšhānī'' → ''pahesihany'', ''pahešihańi'' (Liturgical College)
 ===Time===
 → ''See [[Chlouvānem/Calendar and time|Chlouvānem calendar]] for a description of the units of time named here.''
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 # ''igameasena'' (Īlāmyasena)
 # ''heaviyasena'' (Hælvyāsena)
-# ''tramimetre'' (Camimæchliė)
+# ''tramirada'' (Camirādhās)
 ====Days====