Louzen language

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Louzen language
Louzenish, Nordulevan
Lúzinŝina
LouzeniFlag.png
Flag of the Duchy of Louzeni
Pronunciation/luːzinɕʧina/ Speaker Icon.svg
RegionSlavic Belt in Thuadia
EthnicityLouzeni Slavs
Native speakers
L1: 5,812,000
L2: 2,317,000
FL: 520,000
Standard forms
Louzen language great wordbook
Dialects
  • Qash mixed dialects
  • Louzeni[1]
  • Mountainous Haldenian
Official status
Official language in
 Gadorien
└→LouzeniFlag.png Duchy of Louzeni
Recognised minority
language in
 Zhousheng
└→MSCentralFlag.png Central Region
 Gadorien
 Qazhshava
Language codes
ISO 639-1LI
ISO 639-2LOI
ISO 639-3LOI
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Distribution of the language
  Absolute majority
  >30% of native speakers
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Louzeni language is a Slavic language out of Kento-Polyash language group, which is a official language of the autonomous Duchy of Louzeni in Gadorien and is a recognized minority language in Zhousheng, Gadorien and Qazhshava

Introduction

The language has a slavic root and grammar, but has developed along with strong germanic influences, which shaped the grammar of the language. Unlike most of other slavic languages, Louzen maintained use of Dual as a grammatical number.

Alphabet

Although until the 18th century, Louzeni used Protopolyash script, the strong influence of Gadori germanic tribes using latin pushed it towards Latin script, which eventually became the most used script and eventually gained a linguistic monopoly in the middle of 19th century.
Until the rebirth movement in the end of 19th century, Louzen used only Graphemes to denote multiple sounds, which did not have a standard 26-alphabet letter given to them, but later, a system of diacritic marks was devised, creating a version, where any important phoneme is denoted by a single letter. Louzen, 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 eary 1900's.

Official diacritic version Digraph version IPA Symbol Example of a common word with the sound
1 A a A a About this sound/a/ After
2 Á á Aa aa About this sound/aː/
3 Ä ä Ae ae About this sound/ɛ/ Bed (General American accent)
4 Â â Ja ja /ʲa/~/j͡a/ Not in common. Example: "Яблоко/Âbloko" in Tiskai language
5 B b B b About this sound/b/ Label
6 C c C c About this sound/ʦ/ Its
7 Ċ ċ Cz cz About this sound/ʧ/ Check
8 D d D d About this sound/d/ Done
9 Ḋ ḋ D' d' About this sound/ɟ/ Voiced palatal plosive (not in common)
10 E e E e About this sound/e/ Bed (Australian accent)
11 É é E e About this sound/eː/
12 Ê ê Je je /ʲe/~/j͡e/ Belarus
13 F f F f About this sound/f/ Fine
14 G g G g About this sound/g/ Game
15 H h H h About this sound/ɦ/
About this sound/h/
Hello
16 Ḣ ḣ Ch ch About this sound/x/ Loch Ness
17 I i I i About this sound/i/ Free
18 Í í Ie ie About this sound/iː/
19 J j J j About this sound/j/ You
20 K k K k About this sound/k/ Key
21 L l L l About this sound/l/ Later
22 Ŀ ŀ L' l' About this sound/lʲ/ Million
23 M m M m About this sound/m/ Mother
24 N n N n About this sound/n/ Month
25 Ṅ ṅ N' n' About this sound/ɲ/ New
26 O o O o About this sound/o/
About this sound/ɔ/
Yawn / Not
27 Ó ó Oo oo About this sound/oː/
About this sound/ɔː/
28 Ö ö Oe oe About this sound/œ/ Bird
29 P p P p About this sound/p/ Play
30 Q q Q q About this sound/p/ Caught
31 R r R r About this sound/ʀ/ Red
32 S s S s About this sound/s/ Surprise
33 Ṡ ṡ Sz sz About this sound/ɕ/ Show
34 Ŝ ŝ Sx sx /ɕ͡ʧ/ Not in common. Example: "Щенок/Ŝenok" in Tiskai language
35 T t T t About this sound/t/ Time
36 Ṫ ṫ T' t' About this sound/c/ Voiceless palatal plosive (not in common)
37 U u U u About this sound/u/ Boot
38 Ú ú Uu uu About this sound/uː/
39 Ü ü Ue ue About this sound/ɨ/ Lip (London accent)
40 Û û Ju ju /ʲu/~/j͡u/ Not in common. Example: "Любить/Lûbitʹ" in Tiskai language
41 V v V v About this sound/v/ Valve
42 W w W w About this sound/w/
About this sound/ʋ/
Weep
43 X x X x /k͡s/ A bigram of /k/ and /s/, for example in Maximal
44 Y y Y y About this sound/ɪ/ Bit (General American)
45 Ý ý Yy yy About this sound/ɪː/
46 Z z Z z About this sound/z/ Zoo
47 Ż ż Z' z' About this sound/ʑ/ Vision
  1. Often referred as "Literary form", as Louzeni accent is the one Louzeni language grammar rules are based on.