Northern Ivili Language

Northern Ivili
Ekuşemīn Doneko Şotī
Pronunciation	/ekuʃemaɪn ʃotaɪ/
Native to	Flatstone Northern Ivili Clan Southern Ivili Clan
Region	Şotīko Archipelago in Olivacia
Ethnicity	Stonish
Native speakers	L1: 3,220,000+ (2018) L2: 3,335,000+ FL: 25,000+
Language family	Geonesian Ivili subgroup Northern Ivili
Dialects	Northern Ivili Standard Umudīn Variant Sunlenemo Variant Şotīgābon Variant
Official status
Official language in	Flatstone Northern Ivili Clan Southern Ivili Clan Taverkny Clan
Recognised minority language in	Ou Clan
Language codes
ISO 639-1	FS
ISO 639-2	IVL
ISO 639-3	–
Linguasphere	TBA
Distribution of the language throughout Flatstone   Absolute majority   >50% of native speakers

The Northern Ivili language (Northern Ivili: Ekuşemīn Doneko Şotī) is a Geonesian language that is a part of the Ivili subgroup. Northern Ivili is the standard language of Flatstone, with as many as 6.6 million speakers across the entirety of Geonesia. The language is named after the Northern Ivili and Southern Ivili clans, which derived their names from an old proto-Ivili runic word meaning "hard." The language was standardized in 1911 by the Stonish crown and the prerevolutionary government and has universally served as the official language of Flatstone ever since.

History

TBA

Geographic distribution

TBA

Classification

TBA

Regional variants

  Northern Ivili language

  Regional dialects

  Southern Ivili language

Phonology

Overview

Standard Ivili has traditionally operated under a Verb–subject–object word order (VSO), and this has been true for the entirety of the languages existence. It is also worth noting that in Ivili, Possession is typically ordered possessee before possessor. The Ivili language has five grammatical cases, and typically relies heavily on context to determine singularity, plurality, and depending on the sentence, tenses. Ivili has just seventeen phonemes, making the language the simplest of the four that are native to the Şotīko archipelago.

Alphabet

The transition from a Runic alphabet to a Latin script took place over the span of roughly a decade, likely beginning sometime in the mid nineteenth century. However, the Latin script wouldn't be officially adopted by the Kingdom of Flatstone until 1911, when it was standardized. Despite this, the Latin alphabet had risen in popularity on it's own, first being used en masse by the merchant class of Flatstone at the turn of the 19th century, and being spread through relatives via letters, newspaper articles, etc. Today, the Ivili alphabet consists of sixteen letters:

Ā ā	B b	K k	D d	E e	G g	Ī ī	J j
L l	M m	N n	O o	P p	Ş ş	U u	V v

It should also be mentioned that there are adaptations of the standard Northern Ivili phonology (Most notably in the Southern Ivili language) that include the voiced dental fricative ("ð"), and the voiceless alveolar plosive ("t") to compensate for the fact that some regional accents replace the pronunciation for the letter "J" in the Ivili alphabet with either of these three phonemes. However, this addition to the alphabet isn't federally standardized and is only recognized by a few localities.

Order	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
Majuscule	Ā	B	K	D	E	G	Ī	J	L	M	N	O	P	Ş	U	V
Minuscule	ā	b	k	d	e	g	ī	j	l	m	n	o	p	ş	u	v
IPA Sound	e͡i	b	k	d	e~i	g	a͡i	j	l	m	n	o	p	ʃ	u	v

Phonetics

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Plosive	p ⟨p⟩ b ⟨b⟩	t ⟨t⟩ d ⟨d⟩		k ⟨k⟩ ɡ ⟨g⟩
Fricative	v ⟨v⟩	s ⟨s⟩	ʃ ⟨ş⟩
Nasal	m ⟨m⟩	n ⟨n⟩
Approximant		l ⟨l⟩	j ⟨j⟩

	Front	back
Close	e~i ⟨e⟩	u ⟨u⟩
Close-mid		o ⟨o⟩
Open	a ⟨a⟩
Diphthongs	eɪ̯ ⟨ā⟩, aɪ̯⟨ī⟩

Grammar

The Northern Ivili language has two grammatical numbers, the two being singular and plural. Northern Ivili has five grammatical cases:

• Nominative
• Genitive
• Dative
• Accusative
• Instrumental

Nouns

The Northern Ivili language has no rule for gender. However, the Northern Ivili language recognizes three genders; Male, female, and neuter. This is because traditionally in Flatstone these are the only three known genders, and gender is often determined by context in the Northern Ivili language. In the Northern Ivili language the adpositions typically comes before the noun, making prepositions standard.

• Grammatical numbers:
  • Singular - unmarked
  • Plural - unmarked

• Tenses:
  • Present - unmarked
  • Past - +Suffix "en"
  • Future - +Prefix "dei"

Adjectives

In Northern Ivili, the adjective always comes after the noun.