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

Official Zhoushi alphabet		Latinised Zhoushi alphabet	IPA Symbol	Example of a english word with the sound
1	A a	A a	/a/	After
2	B b	B b	/b/	Label
3	C c	C c	/t͡s/	Cicada
4	Ч ч	Č č	/t͡ʃ/	Check
5	D d	D d	/d/	Done
6	Đ đ	Ď ď	/ɟ/	Voiced palatal plosive (not in english)
7	Ƌ ƌ	D́ d́	/d͡z/	Voiced alveolar affricate (not in english)
8	E e	E e	/ɛ/	Bed (General American accent)
9	Є є	Ě ě	/e/	Bed (Australian accent)
10	F f	F f	/f/	Fine
11	G g	G g	/g/	Game
12	Г г	Ǧ ǧ	/d͡ʒ/	Jam
13	H h	H h	/h/	Hello
14	Ȝ ȝ	Ȟ ȟ	/ɣ/ /x/	Velar fricative (not in english: Voiceless, Voiced)
15	I i	I i	/i/ /ɪ/	Free / Bit (General American)
16	J j	J j	/j/	You
17	K k	K k	/k/	Key
18	L l	L l	/l/	Later
19	Λ λ	Ľ ľ	/ȴ/	Million
20	M m	M m	/m/	Mother
21	N n	N n	/n/	Month
22	Ƞ ƞ	Ň ň	/ɲ/	New
23	O o	O o	/o/ /ɔ/	Yawn / Not
24	Ө ө	Ǒ ǒ	/u͡o/	Not in english. Examples is for example Ô
25	P p	P p	/p/	Play
26	Q q	Q q	/k͡v/	A bigram of /k/ and /v/, for example in Question
27	R r	R r	/r/	Bright
28	Ꝛ ꝛ	Ř ř	/r̝/ /r̝̊/	Voiced and voiceless alveolar fricative trills (not in english)
29	S s	S s	/s/	Surprise
30	Ш ш	Š š	/ʃ/	Show
31	T t	T t	/t/	Time
32	Ꞇ ꞇ	Ť ť	/c/	Voiceless palatal plosive (not in english)
33	Þ þ	T́ t́	/ð/ /θ/	This / Thin
34	U u	U u	/u/	Boot
35	V v	V v	/v/	Valve
36	Ƿ ƿ	W w	/w/	Weep
37	X x	X x	/k͡s/	A bigram of [k] and [s], for example in Maximal
38	Y y	Y y	/ɨ/	Lip (London accent)
39	Z z	Z z	/z/	ZOO
40	З з	Ž ž	/ʒ/	Pleasure

Zhoushi, although not officially using it, sometimes uses 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:

N	Official Zhoushi alphabet	Latinised Zhoushi alphabet	IPA Symbol	Example of a english word with the sound
1x	Ꜳ ꜳ	Á á	/aː/	Ask
2x	Ѥ ѥ	É é	/ɛː/	Air
3x	Э э	È è	/eː/	Not in english
4x	I i	Í í	/iː/ /ɪː/	Wheel
5x	Ł ł	Ĺ ĺ	/l̩/	Not in english
6x	Л л	L̀ l̀	/ȴ̩/	Not in english
7x	Ꝏ ꝏ	Ó ó	/oː/ /ɔː/	Not in english
8x	Ꝋ ꝋ	Ò ò	/u͡oː/	Not in english
9x	Ԗ ԗ	Ŕ ŕ	/r̩/	Not in english
10x	Ɯ ɯ	Ú ú	/uː/	Doom
11x	Ү ү	Ý ý	/ɨː/	Not in english