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{{Infobox language
|name              = Flewtish
|nativename        = Flũťa / Флӯтьа
|image             = Flewtish Flag.png
|imagesize         = 200px
|imagecaption      = Flag of the Flewtish people. It is a simplified version of an ancient flag. The green represents nature, the white represents peace and the orange represents the joy to be alive.
|pronunciation     = ɸlûːtʷa
|pronunciation_key = IPA
|state             = Russia, Finland
|created           = 2023
|familycolor       = Language isolate
|fam1              = [[w:Language isolate|Language Isolate]]
|speakers          = approx. 1 million
|date              = 2023
|creator           = Aggelos Tselios
|script1           = Latn
|script2           = Cyrl
|nation            = Flewtish Autonomous Republic, [[w:Russian Federation|Russia]]
|map               = Map of Flewtish-speaking areas.png
|mapsize           = 280px
|mapcaption        = Map of where Flewtish is spoken today. Dark blue areas indicate a majority Flewtish-speaking population, whereas light blue indicate areas where Flewtish is an important language.
|agency            = Instituto Standarzabüro Flutadene Glung (Institute of Standardization of the Flewtish Language)
|notice            = IPA
}}

'''Flewtish''' ([[w:Endonym|endonym]]: <b>Флутье</b> [[IPA|[ɸlutʷe] ]] or '''Флутье глун'''</b> [[IPA|[ˈɸlutʷe ɡlun] ]]) is a language spoken in much of Northwest Russia and the [[w:Karelia|Karelia region]], as well as a large pocket in [[w:Finland|Eastern Finland]]. Flewtish is a [[w:Language isolate|language isolate]], meaning it does not [[w:Genetic relationship (linguistics)|genetically relate]] to any other known language on the planet, similar to [[w:Basque|Basque]] in Europe.

Flewtish is a polysynthetic language, something uncommon for the Siberian or the European languages, hinting a distant [[w:Urheimat|Urheimat]] far away from today's Russia (Usually placed near the Mongolian border, see [[Proto-Flewtish]]). The language is split into 4 periods: [[Proto-Flewtish]], Old Flewtish, Ḟlǔṫas Eṽétt (Modern Latin Orthography: ''Fluṫas Ewet''), and Modern Flewtish, each one signified by the historical events accompanying them. It is a biscriptal language, using both the Latin and Cyrillic scripts to be written (In Finland and elsewhere respectively), although during the early medieval period there were Turkic writings too. An important aspect of the language is differentiating between labialized and non-labialized consonants (Referred in Flewtish as "rounded" and "unrounded") see eg. [kʷáɣ.op] "Warmth" and [káɣ.op] "Deer".

Flewtish is not one unified language. Rather, it is a large dialect continuum, stretching from Eastern Finland to the Ob river, and from the White Sea all the way to Bestozhevo (Arkhangelsk oblast), and the large distance between the dialects has caused the extreme ends of that territory to be completely unintelligible to each other.