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Ellesean is a language which is sometimes classed as being part of the Uralic family, but is usually classed as being a language isolate. It can officially be written in a modified form of the Cyrillic alphabet.
Ellesean is a language which is classified as an isolate, having no known relatives in any other languages. It can officially be written in the Cyrillic Alphabet only, although the government also provides an official transcription into the Latin script for foreign use.  


It is mostly spoken in Ellese, where it is the native language of 6.8 million people, but is also spoken by around 800,000 Elleseans in Russia and in other countries, as part of the Ellesean diaspora.  
It is mostly spoken in Ellese, where it is the native language of 6.8 million people, but is also spoken by around 800,000 Elleseans in Russia and in other countries, as part of the Ellesean diaspora.
 
It is known for its use of a special type of "tone", in which the speed the sentence or word is spoken in alters its meaning greatly. For example, this base phrase (which can be a sentence):
 
Ush Varn
 
This can mean some variation of "I am a man"-while it refers to somebody being, at some point, either a man, who that somebody is, and at what time period that person is a man, ranges depending on the speed it is spoken in.
 
For example, Ùsh Varn (with the grave accent on the "u" signifies it is to be spoken in the slowest speed. This means "I am a man".
 
On the other hand, Üsh Varn signifies it is to be spoken in the fastest speed, meaning "You will be a man."
 
It is an agglutinative language. For example, "I am a black-haired man" would be:
 
Ùsh Fernhirlesvarn.
 
"I am a black-haired man with green eyes."
 
Ùsh Vorshenesfernhirlesvarn.
 
Words can be in any order, although Subject-Verb-Object is most common e.g it would be "the boy kicked the ball", or "Vaz rorghnei ebel."

Latest revision as of 07:19, 7 September 2023

Ellesean is a language which is classified as an isolate, having no known relatives in any other languages. It can officially be written in the Cyrillic Alphabet only, although the government also provides an official transcription into the Latin script for foreign use.

It is mostly spoken in Ellese, where it is the native language of 6.8 million people, but is also spoken by around 800,000 Elleseans in Russia and in other countries, as part of the Ellesean diaspora.

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