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| imagecaption = [[w:Ganymede (moon)|Ganymede]] before colonisation, now the home of the Ganymedian language

| imagesize = 200px

| date = 2276

| familycolor = Mixed

| fam1 = Spanish-Swahili Creole

| script1 = Latn

| script2 = Arab

| stand1 = ''Noma ya Akademia''

| dia1 = Tros dialects</br>

| agency = Akademia Kiganimedi

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Ganymedian developed through the [[w:Creolisation|creolisation]] of Latin American and East African space migrants, primarily incentivised to go there by recruitment efforts from American colonists. These migrants were primarily settled in the [[w:Enki Catena|Enki Catena]] (now Gran Catena) and the nearby [[w:Neith (crater)|Neith]] crater (now Neís); the proximity of the colonies led to significant cultural exchange and subsequent linguistic creolisation due to the absence of a widely known common language like the interplanetary lingua franca English. With the Great Exodus in 2210, American colonists especially on Galilean moons left en masse and returned to Earth, leaving the rest of the Ganymedians to occupy and subsequently resettle the formerly American colonies of Tros, Diment and New Washington; this led to a nominal declaration of independence by governor Kamari Karaskio from Tros in 2222, forming the First Republic of Ganymede, with Ganymedian, Swahili and Spanish as official languages; the nascent Republic of Ganymede was the first nation to make a [[w:Creole language|creole language]] and NEL an official language. In the constitution of the subsequent Second Republic of Ganymede in 2267, Ganymedian was declared the sole official language of the nation, which it remains to this day.

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Although boundaries are blurry and different by region, the Akademia recommends counting objects and people with ''kiswa'' numerals, e.g. '''''sita''' parosi na '''saba''' chuchosi'' "six birds and seven dogs" or ''tabla para '''bili''', nomba'' "table for two, please", and using ''pañola'' numerals for everything else, most commonly reading the date or time, e.g. ''ni '''quato''' ya mesi'' "it's the fourth of the month" or ''wa tatana ya '''dise''' na media'' "they will meet at half past ten".

===Verbs===

The grammatical function of verbs in Ganymedian are mostly derived from Swahili, although the actual root terms are fairly often derived from Spanish as well. This leads to an agglutinative but otherwise simple verb system based on prefixes, somewhat similar to the complex [[w:Swahili grammar#Tenses, aspects and moods|tense-aspect-mood]] system of Swahili, though notably omitting any inflections based on the person of the subject or the object.

* ''Tu '''tareja''' soni'' can mean "You '''will hear''' the sound", "You '''will have heard''' the sound" or "You '''will be hearing''' the sound"

* ''Mi '''litana''' ye en festa'' can mean "I '''met him''' at a party", "I '''had met''' him at a party" or "I '''was meeting''' him at a party".

==Example texts==

===Lord's Prayer===

<poem>

Nombe tu ni santifiya.

Reno tu cha,

Tani faña tu,

En duña komo en seyo.

Na pedona wadambi nosi

Na no yebe nosi en tetasioni

Pero libira nosi ya malo.