Nevan Vyvlander

Nevan Vyvlander
Neevez Vyvluder
Pronunciation	/neːvet͡ʃ vyvludæ:r/ (Nevan Vyvlander) /neːveʒ vʏvlədeːɾ/ (Vyvlander)
Region	Nevanmaa
Native speakers	1,2 million (2011)
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Ingvaeonic Nevan Vyvlander
Writing system	Latin script
Official status
Official language in	Nevanmaa File:NVh.png Saarenmaa File:Nv10.png Marianmaa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nvy
Linguasphere	52-ACC

Nevan Vyvlander is a dialect of Vyvlander language spoken in Marianmaa and Saarenmaa in Nevanmaa.

History

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Unofficial flag of Nevan Vyvlanders

dirty vyvlander immigrants everywhere

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Map of municipalities where Nevan Vyvlander is an official language

Phonology

Consonants

Nevan Vyvlander phonology has been greatly influenced by Nevan language, and to a lesser extent by the Mari language. For example, all fricatives present in standard Vyvlander have either turned into other sounds or degenerated into other fricatives.

There are some minor ortography changes in Nevan Vyvlander. F has been replaced with the letter D, and letter C with a digraph "ts".

• /ð/→/d/
• /z/→/s/
• /ʒ/→/t͡ʃ/
• /z/→/s/
• /ʝ/→/j/
• /ɾ/→/r/
• /ɧ/→/ɕ/
• /w/→/ʋ/
• /ʑ/→/ʒ/

Vowels

In Nevan Vyvlander, the vowel system has been simplified due to Nevan influence. In addition, there are two additional letters: Ö representing /ø/ which is represented in standard Vyvlander with digraph "yy" and "yr", and Ä, representing /æ/, a sound that corresponds to Vyvlander /ɜ/.

In addition, diphthongs are much more common in Nevan Vyvlander, there being a total of 11 diphthongs compared to five in standard Vyvlander.

• a: /ɑ/
• aa: /ɑ:/
• e: /e/
• ee: /e:/
• är ("er" in Vyvlander): /æ:r/
• ää ("eu" in Vyvlander): /æ:/
• i: /i, i:/
• o: /o/
• oo: /o:/
• oh: /oɐ/
• u: /u/
• ur: /uɐ:r/
• y: /y:/, /ʉ:/
• öö ("yy" in Vyvlander): /œ:/
• ör ("yr" in Vyvlander): /œ:r/

Grammar

Grammar in Nevan Vyvlander is mostly similar to standard Vyvlander. The most notable of these differences is that there is no grammatical gender in Nevan Vyvlander. There is only one definite article, de and one indefinite article, yn.

Vocabulary

In addition to grammar differences, there are large amounts of Nevan loanwords in Nevan Vyvlander.

Word	Nevan	Standard
boy	poike	jreng