Polyashi Sign Language

Polyashi Sign Language (P.S.L.)
Lingua gesticulatoria Pœliacorum (L.G.P.)
People communicating using the LGP
Pronunciation	[ɛl d͡ʒiː piː] or [ɛl ɡɛː pɛː]
Native to	Countries influenced by the Kento-Polyashi culture
Region	Southern and Southwestern Thuadia
Native speakers	L1: ~3,000,000 L2: ~2,500,000 FL: ~5,000,000
Language family	Sign languages
Official status
Official language in	Gabrielland Adinnyan Region Arasatia North Gabrielland Region West Gabrielland Region Inner Sekidean Union Gadorien Kentalis Mustelaria Monte Blanco Zhousheng Prei Meas Qazhshava Torvon Krenya Speke Tiskaiya The Triumvirate Kilowatt Prybourne Velnotia
Language codes
ISO 639-1	LGP
ISO 639-2	LGP
ISO 639-3	LGP
Areas where LGP is the official sign language

Polyashi Sign Language, usually called LGP ([ɛl d͡ʒiː piː] or [ɛl ɡɛː pɛː] in IPA, in LGPA) as a shortcut of "Lingua gesticulatoria Pœliacorum" (which is the name in Latin), sometimes written in other scripts: ЛГП (Govoric), ⲖⲄⲠ (Protopolyash), ឯល្គេពេ (Preimeai) or File:BotoPE.png (Boto) is a sign languages used by deaf communities in southern and southwestern Thuadia, in general areas influenced by the Kento-Polyashi culture. It is a logographic language with signs for most common phonemes in local languages for possible spelling of words with no set symbol.

History

The origins of the languages are unclear, but it is expected, that the language developed in perpetua as the diverging Kento-Polyashi tribes tried communicating with neighboring cultures, especially Mokhavic and Germanic in the southern Thuadia and Romance on the Canterian peninsula.

The first recorded mention of the language comes from present-day Zhousheng, where a local Proto-Bogmian Catholic priest during the times of early Kaȝin reformation complained, that a Kaȝin priest used a sign language among local Tghok populace to spread their belief onto the pagan populace rather than using a language (there was a strong belief in the Gift of Tongues at that time).

First codified form can be found in present day Kentalis from 1650, where a community of Ereskans codified a standart for communication with a local field hospital, where a lot of people were shellshocked and temporairly lost their hearing because of a loud explosion in their proximity.

Global Flag for the Deaf Communities

The language got international codification only by the mid of 18th century after the establishment of the Empire of Three Kings, where local deaf communities in Gadorieni states, the Empire of Three Kings, western parts of Prei Meas, southern Qazhshava and Speke started coordinating in creating a sign lingua france for possible cross-border communication. Although the first codified language was incoherrent to many deaf communities, further changes allowed its development to the extend in which it exists today.

On the 1912 congress (shortly after the Great War), communities from 16 countries codified the unified language as the official sign language of their respective countries, which started to be educated on deaf schools.

First country to officially declare the codified LGP as an official sign language was Zhengia in 1905.

Country	Official	Cancelled	Note
Zhengia	1905	1943	Legislation transferred to Zhousheng
Bogmia	1909	1943	Legislation transferred to Zhousheng
Gadorien	1910	—
Kentalis	1916	—
Krenya	1923	—
Colonial Prei Meas	1924	1947	Legislation transferred to independent Prei Meas
Colonial Storvan	1925	1947	Legislation transferred to independent Storvan
Qazhshava	1926	—
Torvon	1932	—
Tiskaiya	1935	—
Zhousheng	1943	2017	Reaffirmation from Bogmia and Zhengia, legislation transferred to Mustelaria
Storvan State	1947	1951	Legislation transferred to Storvan Autonomy via Zhousheng
The Triumvirate	1948	—
Prei Meas	1951	1975	Cancelled by the communists during the civil war, reinstated after the war ended
	1977	—
Monte Blanco	1957	2017	Legislation language transferred to Mustelaria
Speke	1961	—
Mustelaria	2017	—	Reaffirmation from Zhousheng and Monte Blanco

Introduction

TBA

Phoneme signs

Polyashi Phonetic Manual Alphabet LGP Phonetic Alphabet
Symbol for /a ~ ɑ/ as displayed on a 1905 cover of a book focusing on the topic (in Prybournian)
Type	Manual
Languages	Polyashi Sign Language
Creator	4th Southern Thuadian Congress of the Deaf (standardization)
Created	~1810
Published	~1905
Parent systems	Polyash sign pidgin Polyashi Phonetic Manual Alphabet

The language has special signs for:

• Consonants: /b/, /p/, /t͡s ~ ʈ͡s/, /t͡ʃ ~ t͡ɕ ~ t͡ʂ/, /d͡z ~ ɖ͡z/, /d͡ʒ ~ d͡ʑ ~ d͡ʐ/, /ʃ ~ ɕ ~ ʂ/, /ʒ ~ ʑ ~ ʐ/, /d ~ ɖ/, /t ~ ʈ/, /tʲ~ c/, /dʲ ~ ɟ/, /h ~ ɦ/, /x ~ χ/, /z ~ zʲ/, /s ~ sʲ/, /ð ~ θ/, /ɡ ~ ɢ/, /k/, /q/, /v ~ β/, /f ~ ɸ/, /r ~ ɾ/, /ʀ ~ ɹ ~ ʁ/, /m/, /n/, /ŋ/, /nʲ ~ ɲ/, /l ~ ɫ ~ ʟ/, /ʎ ~ lʲ ~ ȴ/, /ɰ ~ w/, /j ~ ʝ/
• Vowels: /a ~ ɑ/, /ɛ ~ e/, /æ ~ ə ~ ɤ/, /ɔ ~ o/, /i ~ ɪ/, /ʊ ~ u ~ ʏ/, /ɨ ~ y/, /ø ~ œ/

Which are used for spelling untraditional words, shortcuts, and names, that do not have a classical symbol, or which are not understood by the other speaker.

Signs for classical phonemes and numbers
All signs can be done with a single hand (in this example right hand, left can be used also)
/b/	/p/	/d ~ ɖ/	/t ~ ʈ/	/dʲ ~ ɟ/	/tʲ ~ c/	/ɡ ~ ɢ/	/k/	/q/	/ð ~ θ/
/m/	/n/	/nʲ ~ ɲ/	/ŋ/	/ʎ ~ lʲ ~ ȴ/	/l ~ ɫ ~ ʟ/	/ʀ ~ ɹ ~ ʁ/	/r ~ ɾ/	/j ~ ʝ/	/ɰ ~ w/
/d͡z ~ ɖ͡z/	/t͡s ~ ʈ͡s/	/d͡ʒ ~ d͡ʑ/	/t͡ʃ ~ t͡ɕ/	/z ~ zʲ/	/s ~ sʲ/	/ʒ ~ ʑ ~ ʐ/	/ʃ ~ ɕ ~ ʂ/	/v ~ β/	/f ~ ɸ/
/h ~ ɦ/	/x ~ χ/	/a ~ ɑ ~ ɒ/	/ɛ ~ e/	/æ ~ ə ~ ɤ/	/ɔ ~ o/	/i ~ ɪ/	/ʊ ~ u ~ ʏ/	/ɨ ~ y/	/ø ~ œ/
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0 ~ 10

This alphabet is of course linked to the language of origin of the speaker and can be realistically used only in communication between two people of the same nationality.

Pronouns

The language uses the 4th person in plural for the exclusive we.

Figure	Includes			Name
	Speaker	Listener	Others
0th Person	NO	NO	NO	Nobody
1st person	YES	NO	NO	I
	YES	YES	YES	We (inclus.)
	YES	YES	NO
2nd person	NO	YES	NO	You (sg.)
	NO	YES	YES	You (pl.)
3rd person	NO	NO	YES	He/She/It/They
4th person	YES	NO	YES	We (exclus.)

Singular			Plural				Other
I	You	They	We (incl.)	You	They	We (excl.)	None	Every	Any	Some	Who
File:LGP-1sg.jpg	File:LGP-2sg.jpg	File:LGP-3sg.jpg	File:LGP-1pl.jpg	File:LGP-2pl.jpg	File:LGP-3pl.jpg	File:LGP-4pl.jpg	File:LGP-noper.jpg	File:LGP-allper.jpg	File:LGP-sbper.jpg	File:LGP-anyper.jpg	File:LGP-whoper.jpg
1.sg	2.sg	3.sg	1.pl	2.pl	3.pl	4.pl	A.sg	A.pl	?.sg	?.pl	Ques.

Clusivity chart		Does it include the listener?
		YES	NO
Does it include the speaker?	YES	Inclusive We	Exclusive We
	NO	You	They

Word Order

The LGP has a heavily controlled word order, which works as following:

MODIFIERS — Further adverbials — SUBJECT — ADVERBIALS — POSSIBLE NEGATION — PREDICATE — POSSIBLE QUESTION — Object modifiers — OBJECTS

For example, the pangram "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" would have the order of "Quick - brown - fox - to jump - lazy - over dog"

If we were to modify the sentence to "The very quick light brown fox doesn't steadily jump over a somewhat lazy dog", we would have to follow the word order to: "Quick - very - brown - light - fox - to jump - steadily - not - lazy - somewhat - over dog"