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{{Infobox language
{{Infobox language
|name = Wessedian
|name = Wessedian
|nativename = Væssoyisk
|nativename = væssoyskur
|pronunciation = /ˈvɛsː.ɔɪ̯.isk/
|pronunciation = /ˈvɛsː.ɔɪ̯.skʊr/
|creator = Hilda D'Haeseleer
|creator = Freyja
|created = 2024
|created = 2024
|state = Republic of Wessey
|state = Republic of Wessey
|familycolor =  Indo-European
|familycolor =  Indo-European
|fam2 = Germanic
|fam2 = [[w:Germanic languages|Germanic]]
|fam3 = North Germanic
|fam3 = [[w:North Germanic languages|North Germanic]]
|fam4 = West Norse
|fam4 = [[w:North Germanic languages#Modern languages and dialects|West Norse]]
|ancestor = Old West Norse
|ancestor = Old West Norse
|ancestor2 = Early Wessedian
|ancestor2 = Early Wessedian
|dia1 =
|dia1 =
|script1 = Latn
|script1 = Latn
|nation = Republic of Wessey
|nation = Wessey
|minority = United Republics of Ireland and Scotland
|minority = Scotland
|iso1 = ws
|iso1 = ws
|iso2 = wsd
|iso2 = wsd
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}}
}}


'''Wessedian''' is a North Germanic language spoken by several thousands of people, principally in the Republic of Wessey. Communities of Wessedian speakers are also found in the United Republics of Ireland and Scotland, where it is recognised as a minority language. There are considerable amounts of speakers in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in the Monarchy of England and Wales. Smaller communities also exist in Canada and the United States.
'''Wessedian''' ([[w:endonym|endonym]]: ''væssoyskur''; <small>Wessedian:&nbsp;</small><span class="nowrap" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" style="font-family:Gentium,'DejaVu Sans','Segoe UI',sans-serif">[[IPA for Wessedian|[ˈvɛsː.ɔɪ̯.skʊr]]]</span>) is a [[w:North Germanic languages|North Germanic language]] it is spoken by about two million people, principally in and around Wessey, where it is the official language. Communities of Wessedian speakers also exist in England and Scotland, where it is recognised as a minority language. Minor Wessedian-speaking communities also exist in Norway, the United States and Canada.


Wessedian shares a lot of similarities with other North Germanic languages, especially with Western Norwegian dialects and Faroese, but also features some influences from Goidelic languages and Scots.
Wessedian, like all other North Germanic languages, is descended from [[w:Old Norse|Old Norse]], the common language of the [[w:Norsemen|Norsemen]] during the [[w:Viking Age|Viking Age]]. Wessedian is descended from the West Norse dialect group, along with [[w:Icelandic language|Icelandic]], [[w:Faroese language|Faroese]] and [[w:Nynorsk|Norwegian]]. However, unlike the continental Scandinavian languages — namely [[w:Swedish language|Swedish]], [[w:Danish language|Danish]] and [[w:Norwegian language|Norwegian]] — Wessedian is not easily [[w:Mutual intelligibility|mutualy intelligible]] with other Scandinavian languages, mainly due to its conservation of a case system. Wessedian has [[w:Borrowing (linguistics)|borrowed]] some vocabulary from the [[w:Goidelic languages|Goidelic languages]], especially [[w:Scottish Gaelic|Scottish Gaelic]], and [[w:Scots language|Scots]] due to shared historical contact between between the languages in the region.


==History==
==History==


It is suspected that the first Norsemen settled in the area of what now would be considered Wessey in the late 8<sup>th</sup> century, as records from Scottish monasteries from that time show, most of these settlers were originally from Southern and Western Norway, and brought their respective dialects of the Old Norse language with them. Besides a few runestones, very few written documents survive from this period, although many texts managed to survive through oral tradition, and were written down by scholars in subsequent centuries, one of the most well-known being the ''Orkneyinga saga''.
==Orthography==
==Orthography==
<center>
The Wessedian alphabet consists of 30 letters, thirteen of which are vowels and 17 are consonants.
{| class="wikitable" style="width:50em;text-align:center;border-collapse:collapse"
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="27" | Letters of the Wessedian alphabet
|+
! colspan="30" |Majuscule forms
|-
|-
| Aa || (Ââ) || Bb || Dd || Ee || Ff || Gg || Hh || Ii || Jj ||Kk || Ll || Mm || Nn || Oo || (Ôô) || Pp || Rr || Ss || Tt || Uu || Vv || Xx || Yy || Øø || Ææ || Åå
|A
|À
|B
|D
|Ð
|E
|È
|F
|G
|H
|I
|Ì
|J
|K
|L
|M
|N
|O
|Ò
|P
|R
|S
|T
|U
|Ù
|V
|X
|Y
|Æ
|Ø
|-
! colspan="30" |'''Minuscule forms'''
|-
|a
|à
|b
|d
|ð
|e
|è
|f
|g
|h
|i
|ì
|j
|k
|l
|m
|n
|o
|ò
|p
|r
|s
|t
|u
|ù
|v
|x
|y
|æ
|ø
|}
|}
</center>
<center></center>
Non-native letters mostly appear in some foreign proper nouns, like toponyms and given names. They can also be found in some loanwords, but are usually spelt phonetically instead, for example: ''centimeter'' or ''sentimeter''.
Non-native letters — these being ⟨''c''⟩, ⟨''q''⟩, ⟨''w''⟩ and ⟨''z''⟩ — mostly appear in some foreign proper nouns, like toponyms and given names, and loanwords that haven't been adapted to Wessedian spelling and are not usually considered part of the Wessedian alphabet, one exception to this is the letter ⟨''y''⟩, where, despite the Old Norse /y/ sound merging with /i/, the letter and it's associated sound got reintroduced in the language through loanwords from other, mainly other Scandinavian, languages.
 
===Diasystems===
Words written in Wessedian are generally spelt the same across every dialect, regardless of the speakers pronunciation. This is accomplished with the use of [[w:Diasystem|diasystems]], which are always spelt the same but can be pronounced differently depending on the speakers dialect.
 
* ''A list of diasystems will be added soon''


==Phonology==
==Phonology==
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| m
| m
| colspan="3" | n
| colspan="3" | n
| ɲ
| ɲ*
| ŋ
| (ŋ)
|
|
|-
|-
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|
|
|
| t͡ʃ
| t͡ʃ*
|
| (t͡ɕ)*
|
|
|
|
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! <small>voiceless</small>
! <small>voiceless</small>
| f
| f
|
| θ*
| s
| s
| ʃ
| ʃ
|
| ɕ*
| x
| (x)*
| h
| h
|-
|-
! <small>voiced</small>
! <small>voiced</small>
| rowspan="2" | v
| rowspan="2" | v ~ ʋ
|  
| (ð)*
|
|
|
|
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|-
|-
! colspan="2" | Approximant
! colspan="2" | Approximant
| colspan="3" | l
|
|
|
| j
| j
|
|
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| colspan="3" | r
| colspan="3" | r
|
|
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" | Lateral approximant
|
| colspan="3" | l
| ʎ
|
|
|
|
|}
|}
Notes:
* Sounds with an asterisk indicate that the usage of said consonant depends on the speaker's dialect.
* /x/ is only ever found as /xʷ/.
* /ŋ/ is an allophone of /n/ in front of /k/ and /g/.
* In fast speech /r/ is often pronounced as [ɾ].
===Vowels===
===Vowels===
===Prosody===
===Prosody===
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