Louzen language

Louzen language
Louzenish, Nordulevan
Lúzinŝina
Flag of the Duchy of Louzeni
Pronunciation	/luːzinɕʧina/
Region	Slavic Belt in Thuadia
Ethnicity	Louzeni Slavs
Native speakers	L1: 5,812,000 L2: 2,317,000 FL: 520,000
Language family	Thuado-Thrismaran languages Zarav-Slavic Slavic Kento-Polyash Mustelarian subgroup Louzen language
Standard forms	Louzen language great wordbook
Dialects	Qash mixed dialects Louzeni Mountainous Haldenian
Official status
Official language in	Zhousheng └→ Central Region Gadorien └→
Recognised minority language in	Mustelaria └→Zhousheng Gadorien Qazhshava
Language codes
ISO 639-1	LI
ISO 639-2	LOI
ISO 639-3	LOI
Distribution of the language   Absolute majority   >30% of native speakers

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	/a/	After
2	Ä ä	Ae ae	/ɛ/	Bed (General American accent)
3	B b	B b	/b/	Label
4	C c	C c	/t͡s/ (ʦ)	Its
5	Ċ ċ	Cz cz	/t͡ʃ/ (ʧ)	Check
6	D d	D d	/d/	Done
7	Ḋ ḋ	D' d'	/ɟ/	Voiced palatal plosive (not in common)
8	E e	E e	/e/	Bed (Australian accent)
9	Ě ě	Je je	/ʲe/	Belarus
10	F f	F f	/f/	Fine
11	G g	G g	/g/	Game
12	H h	H h	/ɦ/ /h/	Hello
13	Ḣ ḣ	Ch ch	/x/	Loch Ness
14	I i	I i	/i/	Free
15	Í í	Ie ie	/iː/
16	J j	J j	/j/	You
17	K k	K k	/k/	Key
18	L l	L l	/l/	Later
19	Ŀ ŀ	L' l'	/lʲ/	Million
20	M m	M m	/m/	Mother
21	N n	N n	/n/	Month
22	Ṅ ṅ	N' n'	/ɲ/	New
23	O o	O o	/o/ /ɔ/	Yawn / Not
24	Ö ö	Oe oe	/œ/	Bird
25	P p	P p	/p/	Play
26	Q q	Q q	/p/	Caught
28	R r	R r	/ʀ/	Red
29	S s	S s	/s/	Surprise
30	Ṡ ṡ	Sz sz	/ɕ/	Show
31	T t	T t	/t/	Time
32	Ṫ ṫ	T' t'	/c/	Voiceless palatal plosive (not in common)
33	U u	U u	/u/	Boot
34	Ü ü	Ue ue	/ɨ/	Lip (London accent)
35	V v	V v	/v/	Valve
36	W w	W w	/w/ /ʋ/	Weep
37	X x	X x	/k͡s/	A bigram of /k/ and /s/, for example in Maximal
38	Y y	Y y	/ɪ/	Bit (General American)
39	Z z	Z z	/z/	Zoo
40	Ż ż	Z' z'	/ʑ/	Vision