Polyashi Sign Language
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| Polyashi Sign Language (P.S.L.) | |
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| Lingua gesticulatoria Poliacorum (L.G.P.) | |
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.jpg) 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 |
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Official language in |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | LGP |
| ISO 639-2 | LGP |
| ISO 639-3 | LGP |
 Areas where LGP is the official sign language | |
Arasatia
Polyashi Sign Language, usually called LGP ([ɛl d͡ʒiː piː] or [ɛl ɡɛː pɛː] in IPA) as a shortcut of "Lingua gesticulatoria Poliacorum" (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.
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 |
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 Zhengia
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1905 | 1943 | Legislation transferred to Zhousheng |
 Bogmia
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1909 | 1943 | Legislation transferred to Zhousheng |
 Gadorien
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1910 | — | |
 Kentalis
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1916 | — | |
 Krenya
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1923 | — | |
 Colonial Prei Meas
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1924 | 1947 | Legislation transferred to independent Prei Meas |
 Colonial Storvan
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1925 | 1947 | Legislation transferred to independent Storvan |
 Qazhshava
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1926 | — | |
 Torvon
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1932 | — | |
 Tiskaiya
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1935 | — | |
 Zhousheng
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1943 | 2017 | Reaffirmation from Bogmia and Zhengia, legislation transferred to Mustelaria |
 Storvan State
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1947 | 1951 | Legislation transferred to Storvan Autonomy via Zhousheng |
 The Triumvirate
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1948 | — | |
 Prei Meas
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1951 | 1975 | Cancelled by the communists during the civil war, reinstated after the war ended |
| 1977 | — | ||
 Monte Blanco
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1957 | 2017 | Legislation language transferred to Mustelaria |
 Speke
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1961 | — | |
 Mustelaria
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2017 | — | Reaffirmation from Zhousheng and Monte Blanco |
Introduction
TBA
Phoneme signs
| Polyashi Phonetic Manual Alphabet LGP Phonetic Alphabet | |
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_A.jpg) Symbol for /a ~ ɑ/ as displayed on a 1905 cover of a book focusing on the topic (in Prybournian) | |
| Type | Manual
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| Languages | Polyashi Sign Language |
| Creator | 4th Southern Thuadian Congress of the Deaf (standardization) |
| Created | ~1810 |
| Published | ~1905
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Parent systems | Polyash sign pidgin
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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.
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| /b/ | /p/ | /d ~ ɖ/ | /t ~ ʈ/ | /dʲ ~ ɟ/ | /tʲ ~ c/ | /ɡ ~ ɢ/ | /k/ | /q/ | /ð ~ θ/ |
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| /m/ | /n/ | /nʲ ~ ɲ/ | /ŋ/ | /ʎ ~ lʲ ~ ȴ/ | /l ~ ɫ ~ ʟ/ | /ʀ ~ ɹ ~ ʁ/ | /r ~ ɾ/ | /j ~ ʝ/ | /ɰ ~ w/ |
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| /d͡z ~ ɖ͡z/ | /t͡s ~ ʈ͡s/ | /d͡ʒ ~ d͡ʑ/ | /t͡ʃ ~ t͡ɕ/ | /z ~ zʲ/ | /s ~ sʲ/ | /ʒ ~ ʑ ~ ʐ/ | /ʃ ~ ɕ ~ ʂ/ | /v ~ β/ | /f ~ ɸ/ |
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| /h ~ ɦ/ | /x ~ χ/ | /a ~ ɑ ~ ɒ/ | /ɛ ~ e/ | /æ ~ ə ~ ɤ/ | /ɔ ~ o/ | /i ~ ɪ/ | /ʊ ~ u ~ ʏ/ | /ɨ ~ y/ | /ø ~ œ/ |
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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 still has preserved remnants of dual in the form of strictly inclusive we (That is "I and you, but not anybody else"), which is considered to be the 5th person plural (4th person is exclusive we)
| Figure | Includes | Name | ||
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| 0th Person | NO | NO | NO | Nobody |
| 1st person | YES | NO | NO | I |
| YES | YES | YES | We (inclus.) | |
| 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.) |
| 5th person | YES | YES | NO | We (str. incl.) |
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| I | You | They | We (incl.) | You | They | We (excl.) | We (str. in.) |
| 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-5pl.jpg |
| 1.sg | 2.sg | 3.sg | 1.pl | 2.pl | 3.pl | 4.pl | 5.pl |
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
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