Dnieguan Language

Dnieguan (Common) Coysyakka (Officially)
Cossack
Цоысыакка
File:Cossack Language.png "Coysyakka' Language" Written in traditional Cyrillic and Latin standardized alphabet
Region	Skandaria
Ethnicity	Dnieguan
Native speakers	105,000,000 136,000,000 (L1+L2 speakers)
Language family
Dialects	Roymenski Denpryi
Writing system	Dnieguan Cyrillic Standard Alphabet
Official status
Official language in	Dniegua
Recognised minority language in	Temuair Sieuxerr Gratislavia Estovnia
Regulated by	Ostrogarg University Center of Linguistics
Language codes
ISO 639-1	4062
ISO 639-2	4562
ISO 639-3	–

The Dnieguan Language (Цоысыакка, Coysyakka, literally "Tongue of Cosysy") (Alternatively Дниегуиныас Ыакал, Dnieguinyas Yakal, Dnieguan Tongue) is a Southern Skanderian Language of the Coyst language group, and the only surviving member of said group. It is the official language of Dniegua, and a recognized minority language in Skandaria. It is beleived to be the oldest surviving language in the world, with little notable mutations since around 1200 A.D. Its two major derivatives are believed to be forced evolution of the language upon tribal formerly living in parts of modern day Dniegua, though no source materials of these other languages exists in large volumes.

A complex language, Dnieguan (Most commonly called Coysyakka among speakers) follows complex word and sentence structure. With fewer than 140 million speakers worldwide (120,000,000 of whom reside with the Skanderian continent), it is considered a Global ESCO Protected Language and national herratage source, due to its far-removal from its nearest linguistic ancestor (Estovnian Uralic) and its low expat speaking population.

Dnieguan distinguishes between consonant phonemes with palatal secondary articulation and those without, the so-called soft and hard sounds. This distinction is found between pairs of almost all consonants and is one of the most distinguishing features of the language. Stress, which is unpredictable, is normally indicated orthographically though an optional acute accent, which may be used to mark stress, such as to distinguish between homographic words, or to indicate the proper pronunciation of uncommon words or names.

Classification

Dnieguan is the only surviving member of the Coyst language group, and the last remaining member of Southern Skanderian language, besides Gratislavian, which holds influence from Skavolni languages of the Eveki language family. Distributed thoughtout Skanderian, the principal speakers can be found in Dniegua, while the northernmost areas of Gratislavia, southernmost portions of Sieuxerr and Estovnia, and the Westernmost sections of Temuair hold expat and minority speakers, totaling about 13 million total speakers overall.

Because of the loss of the language groups (Largely thanks to the military actions undertaken by the Coystyak people in the first medium, AD) predating the Dnieguan language, evolution can often be difficult to trace back to a singular origin point. However, it is known the language developed totally foreign of most other regional language, and seems to have drived from early holy languages known as Church Kostyazrov. Some theories suggest the language started as a shorthand speaking form of military code developed by the early Tyravski (Тыравски, The Ones in Rags), an early spy group. Though some information indicates the Tyravski likely were early uses of the language, it is unlikely they developed it.