Zhoushi language

Zhoushi language
Neo-Bogmian, Bogmo-Zhengian
Зөшinчina
Pronunciation	/ʒu͡oʃɪnt͡ʃina/
Native to	Mustelaria └→Zhousheng
Region	Slavic Belt in Thuadia
Ethnicity	Zhoushi Slavs
Native speakers	L1: 110,985,000 L2: 12,532,000 FL: 7,230,000
Language family	Sivuk-Slavogermanic Zarav-Slavic Slavic Kento-Poylash Mustelarian subgroup Zhoushi language
Standard forms	Great Corpus of the New Zhoushi language
Dialects	Central Bogmian Bogmo-Zhengian Zhengian Transmountain Haldenian Mosterec Bogmian Louzen-Bogmian Velpan-Bogmian
Writing system	Modified Latin alphabet
Official status
Official language in	Mustelaria └→Zhousheng
Recognised minority language in	Gadorien, Prei Meas
Language codes
ISO 639-1	ZS
ISO 639-2	ZSG
ISO 639-3	ZSG
Distribution of the language   Absolute majority   >30% of native speakers

Zhoushi language is a Slavic language out of Kento-Polyash language group, which is a official language of Zhousheng and a official federal language in Mustelaria along with Belgorian and Neo-Mustelarian

Introduction

The language has a slavic root and grammar, however, unlike other slavic languages, has 8 grammatical cases (other have 7 or 6). Also, there are about 700 Zhengian words in present day Zhoushi language, they are declined using Bogmian grammar. Old Zhengian, having been descendant out of Prei-Phnom languages, was slowly assimilated into Slavic grammar, having transformed into Slavic Zhengian. Because of the Zhengian accents profilerating, Zhoushi language has 40 unique phonemes, 2 of which are exclusive to Zhoushi language (those are voiced and voiceless Ꝛ).

Alphabet

After the reform of 1912, when Bogmian language officially abandoned Protopolyash script in favor of the new Latin script, hoping to solve the problematic grammar, as multiple phonemes shared one symbol (such as "i" and "j" were both noted as "ⲓ") Three official versions of the new script had been made:

• Grapheme version: This version was later adopted as the official alphabet of the new Zhoushi language in 1984, uses special symbols for each phoneme
• Diacritic version: This version uses basic latin alphabet and solves the phonemes by adding diacritic symbols. Although still being recognized as a acceptable version of the language, it is barely used.
• Digraph version: This version uses digraphs to sign specifical phonemes. It was dropped in early 1950's, as it didn't solve the main reason why Bogmians abandoned the Protopolyash script in the first place.

Zhoushi, although not officially using it, sometimes used lenghtened marks for vowels and syllabic consonants. Those symbols were used in some historical transcripts, but were eventually faded in pre-1950's unification proposals and didn't make it into the official grammar of 1984.

Official (Grapheme) version		Diacritic version	Digraph version	IPA Symbol	Example of a english word with the sound
1	A a	A a	A a	/a/	After
✘	Ꜳ ꜳ	Á á	Aa aa	/aː/	Ask
2	B b	B b	B b	/b/	Label
3	C c	C c	C c	/t͡s/	Cicada
4	Ч ч	Č č	Cz cz	/t͡ʃ/	Check
5	D d	D d	D d	/d/	Done
6	Đ đ	Ď ď	Dj Dj	/ɟ/	Voiced palatal plosive (not in english)
7	Ƌ ƌ	D́ d́	Dz dz	/d͡z/	Voiced alveolar affricate (not in english)
8	E e	E e	E e	/ɛ/	Bed (General American accent)
✘	Ѥ ѥ	É é	Ee ee	/ɛː/	Air
9	Є є	Ě ě	Je je	/e/	Bed (Australian accent)
✘	Э э	È è	Jee jee	/eː/	Not in english
10	F f	F f	F f	/f/	Fine
11	G g	G g	G g	/g/	Game
12	Г г	Ǧ ǧ	Dj dj	/d͡ʒ/	Jam
13	H h	H h	H h	/h/	Hello
14	Ȝ ȝ	Ȟ ȟ	Ch ch	/ɣ/ /x/	Velar fricative (not in english: Voiceless, Voiced)
15	I i	I i	I i	/i/ /ɪ/	Free / Bit (General American)
✘	I i	Í í	Ii ii	/iː/ /ɪː/	Wheel
16	J j	J j	J j	/j/	You
17	K k	K k	K k	/k/	Key
18	L l	L l	L l	/l/	Later
✘	Ł ł	Ĺ ĺ		/l̩/	Not in english
19	Λ λ	Ľ ľ	Lj lj	/ȴ/	Million
✘	Л л	L̀ l̀		/ȴ̩/	Not in english
20	M m	M m	M m	/m/	Mother
21	N n	N n	N n	/n/	Month
22	Ƞ ƞ	Ň ň	Nj nj	/ɲ/	New
23	O o	O o	O o	/o/ /ɔ/	Yawn / Not
✘	Ꝏ ꝏ	Ó ó	Oo oo	/oː/ /ɔː/	Not in english
24	Ө ө	Ǒ ǒ	Uo uo Ou ou	/u͡o/	Not in english. Examples is for example Ô
✘	Ꝋ ꝋ	Ò ò	Uoo uoo Ouo ouo	/u͡oː/	Not in english
25	P p	P p	P p	/p/	Play
26	Q q	Q q	Q q	/k͡v/	A bigram of /k/ and /v/, for example in Question
27	R r	R r	R r	/r/	Bright
✘	Ԗ ԗ	Ŕ ŕ		/r̩/	Not in english
28	Ꝛ ꝛ	Ř ř	Rz rz	/r̝/ /r̝̊/	Voiced and voiceless alveolar fricative trills (not in english)
29	S s	S s	S s	/s/	Surprise
30	Ш ш	Š š	Sz sz	/ʃ/	Show
31	T t	T t	T t	/t/	Time
32	Ꞇ ꞇ	Ť ť	Tj tj	/c/	Voiceless palatal plosive (not in english)
33	Þ þ	T́ t́	Th th	/ð/ /θ/	This / Thin
34	U u	U u	U u	/u/	Boot
✘	Ɯ ɯ	Ú ú	Uu uu	/uː/	Doom
35	V v	V v	V v	/v/	Valve
36	Ƿ ƿ	W w	W w	/w/	Weep
37	X x	X x	X x	/k͡s/	A bigram of [k] and [s], for example in Maximal
38	Y y	Y y	Y y	/ɨ/	Lip (London accent)
✘	Ү ү	Ý ý	Yy yy	/ɨː/	Not in english
39	Z z	Z z	Z z	/z/	ZOO
40	З з	Ž ž	Zh zh	/ʒ/	Pleasure