Zhoushi language
| Zhoushi language | |
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| 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 |
Sivuk-Slavogermanic
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Standard forms | Great Corpus of the New Zhoushi language
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| Dialects |
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| Modified Latin alphabet | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | Mustelaria └→ Zhousheng |
Recognised minority language in | |
| 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 | |
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| 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 | /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 |