Boteyese: Difference between revisions

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|states            = the Boteys

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Owing to facts of Boteyese geography, history, and culture, the language is considered to feature many distinct regional varieties, not all of which are [[w:Mutually intelligibility|mutually intelligible]]. As of the mid-[[w:20th century|20th century]] however, the traditional [[w:Dialect|dialect]] areas have been in steep decline, with some already being effectively [[w:Endangered language|moribund]] or [[w:Extinct language|extinct]]. The profound [[w:Dialect levelling|dialect levelling]] taking place has been variously attributed to the events of [[w:World War II|World War II]], [[w:Urbanization|urbanization]], changes in societal attitudes, and the continued prevalence of the [[w:Standard language|standard language]].

The [[w:Archipelago|archipelago]]'s endonym ''Botjar'' and the [[w:English language|English]] exonym ''(the) Boteys'' both ultimately derive from [[w:Old Norse|Old Norse]] ''Bóteyjar'', a [[w:Compound (linguistics)|compound]] of {{mn|non|bót|t=bight, cove}} and {{mn|non|ey|eyjar|t=islands}}. The Norse [[w:Plural|plural]] was not adapted into English, thus the name takes the English plural instead; cf. [[w:Orkney|Orkney a.k.a. the Orkneys]]. It has been suggested that the conspicuous absence of a single native word referring to the entire people prior to the arrival of Norse settlement could be indicative of a fractious social order and/or lack of shared cultural consciousness.   

==History==

==Phonology==

==Orthography==

In addition to the standard set, there are a few letters which have conventionalized names and pronunciations. The letters ⟨q⟩, ⟨w⟩, ⟨x⟩, and ⟨z⟩ are used mainly in the archaic spellings of [[w:Personal name|personal names]], [[w:Toponymy|toponyms]], and non-incorporated [[w:Loanword|loanwords]], while ⟨ž⟩ is mainly used for modern loanwords and [[w:Transliteration|transliterations]] from Russian and other [[w:Balto-Slavic languages|Balto-Slavic languages]], thus [[w:Leonid Brezhnev|Leonid Brezhnev]] is adapted as ''Lyjanit Brežnyf''.  

In Boteyese orthography, the [[w:Apostrophe|aprostrophe]] is used to mark [[w:Contraction (grammar)|contraction]], as in many other languages. This most often applies to cliticizing words, such as the subordinator ''at'' (''t'=''), the expletive article ''ret'' (''='t''), or the adverbial negator ''aky'' (''k'='').  

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| B, b || ''be'' [ˈbe] || /b/

| E, e || ''e'' [ˈe] || /e/

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| G, g || ''ge'' [ˈɣe] || /ɣ/

| J, j || ''ji'' [ˈji] || /j/

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| O, o || ''o'' [ˈo] || /o/

| P, p || ''pe'' [ˈpe] || /p/

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| T, t || ''te'' [ˈte] || /t/

| Ç, ç || ''çe'' [ˈʃe] || /ʃ/

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| Q, q || ''ku'' [ˈku] || /k/

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| X, x || ''ex'' [ˈes] || /s/

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==Dialects==