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==Introduction== | ==Introduction== | ||
===External history=== | |||
Wendlandish is my first "serious" attempt at an a posteriori conlang. I wanted to do a language radically different from other ones in its family, so I decided for this (somewhat unrealistic, I admit) setting: a Romance language spoken in what in the real world is Pomerania (roughly between Schwerin and Gdańsk, up to 50-60 km inland from the coast), with lots of Old Norse, Slavic, Baltic, and Polish influences, totally cut off for ages from other Romance-speaking peoples, and in the end becoming in the 20th century a part of the Soviet Union, something that further characterizes the language. | |||
===Internal history=== | |||
Wendlandish is the official and national language of Wendland — natively ''Vinnurlond'', "the Wendlands" —, officially the Soviet Republic of the Wendlands (''repuvlik savjetska Vinnurlandana''), a sovereign state in Northern Europe, bordering in the west and south with Germany (''Þysklond'') and in the south and east with Poland (''Sløvjænlond''); it has a long coast on the Baltic Sea (''mær Vinnurlandana'', Sea of the Wendlands), which divides it from Denmark (''Danmork'') and Sweden (''Sværikur'').<br/> | |||
The capital and largest city, with 980,000 inhabitants, is ''Vænfjorðin''<ref>In real world Poland, on the banks of the Dziwna river, partially on the island of Wolin and partially on the mainland.</ref>. Other major cities are ''Þyskarhøyfn'' (pop. about 75,000) in the west, on the coast opposite the country's largest island, ''Rygn''<ref>Real world Rügen.</ref>; and ''Løgurðurp'' (pop. about 98,000) in the east; most of the country is rural, with more than 70% of the population being concentrated in and around Vænfjørðin (the second-largest city is actually ''Praljetarski'', just north of Vænfjørðin, with about 160,000 inhabitants). | |||
The population of Wendland, at the last census (2014), amounted to about 1,600,000 people; the total number of native Wendlandish speakers is slightly higher, with at least 100,000 people of Wendlandish origin living in other former Soviet countries and a small community in southern Denmark, mostly descendants of people who escaped from Wendland during Soviet times. | |||
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==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Orthography=== | ===Orthography=== | ||