Vezhuan - Revision history

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Introduction

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	The Vezhuan language, referred to by its speakers as the ''Dzvada Vezhua Dlin'', "true humans speak this way", is a minority language spoken in Romania and parts of Hungary. Throughout most of the language's history, it was confined chiefly to the Carpathian Mountains. The language is also known as ''Dezvadian'' given to it by the 18th century British explorer Sir Edward James Hampton; this name is actually the ~~exonym~~ of the Dzvada people, whereas the word ''vezhua'' from which Vezhuan comes, actually means "We speak."		The Vezhuan language, referred to by its speakers as the ''Dzvada Vezhua Dlin'', "true humans speak this way", is a minority language spoken in Romania and parts of Hungary. Throughout most of the language's history, it was confined chiefly to the Carpathian Mountains. The language is also known as ''Dezvadian'' given to it by the 18th century British explorer Sir Edward James Hampton; this name is actually the endonym of the Dzvada people, whereas the word ''vezhua'' from which Vezhuan comes, actually means "We speak."

	Today there are approximately 24,000 speakers of the language total, a number that has remained fairly stable since the end of the Industrial Revolution. A minority language in both Romania and Hungary, it has only recently acquired official status. Some speakers have left their traditional homeland in search of a better standard of living amongst the general populace in both countries. A small diaspora also exists, chiefly centered in parts of Greece and Macedonia, and an even smaller population in Lazio, Italy.		Today there are approximately 24,000 speakers of the language total, a number that has remained fairly stable since the end of the Industrial Revolution. A minority language in both Romania and Hungary, it has only recently acquired official status. Some speakers have left their traditional homeland in search of a better standard of living amongst the general populace in both countries. A small diaspora also exists, chiefly centered in parts of Greece and Macedonia, and an even smaller population in Lazio, Italy.

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	~~[[Category:Vezhuan]]~~
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Constituent order

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	==Syntax==		==Syntax==
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	Texts dating to the Middle Ages, especially from Georgian, Armenian, and Adyghe sources, show that Old Vezhuan originally was a VSO language, but its syntax changed to a SOV word order, an areal feature of the Caucasus Sprachbund. Because the nominative and accusative cases have merged into the direct case, word order is strict.

	===Noun phrase===		===Noun phrase===

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Introduction

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	The Vezhuan language, referred to by its speakers as the ''Dzvada Vezhua Dlin'', "true humans speak this way", is a language ~~isolate~~ spoken in Romania and parts of Hungary. Throughout most of ~~their~~ history ~~they were~~ confined chiefly in the Carpathian Mountains. The language is also known as ''Dezvadian'' given to it by the 18th century British explorer Sir Edward James Hampton; this name is actually the exonym of the Dzvada people, whereas the word ''vezhua'' from which Vezhuan comes, actually means "We speak."		The Vezhuan language, referred to by its speakers as the ''Dzvada Vezhua Dlin'', "true humans speak this way", is a minority language spoken in Romania and parts of Hungary. Throughout most of the language's history, it was confined chiefly to the Carpathian Mountains. The language is also known as ''Dezvadian'' given to it by the 18th century British explorer Sir Edward James Hampton; this name is actually the exonym of the Dzvada people, whereas the word ''vezhua'' from which Vezhuan comes, actually means "We speak."

	Today there are approximately 24,000 speakers of the language total, a number that has remained fairly stable since the end of the Industrial Revolution. A minority language in both Romania and Hungary, it has only recently acquired official status. Some speakers have left their traditional homeland in search of a better standard of living amongst the general populace in both countries. A small diaspora also exists, chiefly centered in parts of Greece and Macedonia, and an even smaller population in Lazio, Italy.		Today there are approximately 24,000 speakers of the language total, a number that has remained fairly stable since the end of the Industrial Revolution. A minority language in both Romania and Hungary, it has only recently acquired official status. Some speakers have left their traditional homeland in search of a better standard of living amongst the general populace in both countries. A small diaspora also exists, chiefly centered in parts of Greece and Macedonia, and an even smaller population in Lazio, Italy.

			The language is classified as an isolate. Theories of connections to a larger Rhaetian or Vasconic family had been proposed, but later were dismissed due to insufficient or even contradictory evidence.

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	The Vezhuan language, referred to by its speakers as the ''Dzvada Vezhua Dlin'', "true humans speak this way", is a language isolate spoken in ~~pockets~~ of the ~~Caucasus~~ Mountains. The language is ~~better~~ known as ''Dezvadian'' given to it by the 18th century British explorer Sir Edward James Hampton; this name is actually the exonym of the Dzvada people, whereas the word ''vezhua'' from which Vezhuan comes, actually means "We speak."		The Vezhuan language, referred to by its speakers as the ''Dzvada Vezhua Dlin'', "true humans speak this way", is a language isolate spoken in Romania and parts of Hungary. Throughout most of their history they were confined chiefly in the Carpathian Mountains. The language is also known as ''Dezvadian'' given to it by the 18th century British explorer Sir Edward James Hampton; this name is actually the exonym of the Dzvada people, whereas the word ''vezhua'' from which Vezhuan comes, actually means "We speak."

			Today there are approximately 24,000 speakers of the language total, a number that has remained fairly stable since the end of the Industrial Revolution. A minority language in both Romania and Hungary, it has only recently acquired official status. Some speakers have left their traditional homeland in search of a better standard of living amongst the general populace in both countries. A small diaspora also exists, chiefly centered in parts of Greece and Macedonia, and an even smaller population in Lazio, Italy.


	~~The language is highly endangered, as decreasing numbers learn it as a first language, being increasingly supplanted by Nogai, a language from the unrelated Turkic family.~~

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Anyar: Anyar moved page Dzvada Vezhua Dlin to Vezhuan: The new term is what academics call it, whereas the former name is the endoynm

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Anyar moved page Dzvada Vezhua Dlin to Vezhuan: The new term is what academics call it, whereas the former name is the endoynm

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Constituent order

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	Old ~~and Middle Peshpeg exhibited~~ VSO order, ~~but~~ the ~~modern language is now an SOV language due to Minhast influence~~. Because the nominative and accusative cases have merged into the direct case, word order is strict.		Texts dating to the Middle Ages, especially from Georgian, Armenian, and Adyghe sources, show that Old Vezhuan originally was a VSO language, but its syntax changed to a SOV word order, an areal feature of the Caucasus Sprachbund. Because the nominative and accusative cases have merged into the direct case, word order is strict.

	===Noun phrase===		===Noun phrase===

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Verbs

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	~~Peshpeg~~ verbs mark for tense and aspect. Verbs fall in three broad classes, based on how they mark the past vs. the non-past tenses: the ''zu-/vu-'' class, the etymologically related ''z-/v-'' class, and the ''u-/u-'' class. Another feature of the verb is that plural verb stems get truncated, e.g.''zeganuadzh'' "I spoke", from the stem ''-egan-''; vs. ''zegzua'' "We spoke", from the stem ''-eg-''.		Vezhuan verbs mark for tense and aspect. Verbs fall in three broad classes, based on how they mark the past vs. the non-past tenses: the ''zu-/vu-'' class, the etymologically related ''z-/v-'' class, and the ''u-/u-'' class. Another feature of the verb is that plural verb stems get truncated, e.g.''zeganuadzh'' "I spoke", from the stem ''-egan-''; vs. ''zegzua'' "We spoke", from the stem ''-eg-''.