Cirtanian, known natively as Cirtaugnan/Χιρταυνιαν <ʃir'tawɲ.ans> or Leng Cirtaugnan/Λενγ Χιρταυνιαν ('leŋg ʃiɾt'aw.ɲan) is a romance language native to the island of cirtania east of italy in the mediterranean sea. it split off from late classical/ early vulgar latin and retains some aspects of latin lost in other languages such as nouns that decline to case in number (though the ablative, dative and genitive cases merged, and the fourth and fifth declensions merged with the second and third) due to its proximity to greece, it picked up several greek loanwords as well as phonological and grammatical influences. there is even a way of writing the language in the attic alphabet used mainly in greece and taught in most schools in cirtania, though the latin system is more common and will be u