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Grekelin ([[w:Autoglossonym|Autoglossonym]]: ''A gnújza Grekelénikin'', pronounced: /a ˈɡnʊd͡ʒɑ grːɛkɛˈlɛnikin/, lit. "The Grekelin language") is a [[w:Hellenic languages|Hellenic]] language with strong [[w:Hungarian Language|Hungarian]] influence. Grekelin split from [[w:Medieval Greek|Medieval Greek]] around the 12th century with the mass settlement of Hungary by Greek refugees, and has since then split for more than 9 centuries from Greek.

As a related language to Greek, Grekelin shares with Greek multiple features although it remains more conservative than Standard Greek. However the language has become an SOV one (As opposed to most Indo-European languages which are SVO) due to extensive Hungarian influence. It's vocabulary has almost mostly remained Greek however Hungarian words can be found often in the language. Grekelin is the most isolated Hellenic language currently in the entire world, with about 1200 kilometers of language seperation.

The Grekelin alphabet consists of 28 letters, five of which are vowels and 23 are consonants.

# Grekelin has two articles, a and egy. a becomes e (Remnant of Greek genders) if the subject or object ends with -i.

# Grekelin has also lost it's grammatical genders, although traces of it still remain in the language. The loss of genders was seen during the shift to Proto-Grekelin, which did not distinguish inflections as much as Greek, leading to gender endings merging together.

# Grekelin has 4 cases: Nominative, genitive, accusative and vocative. In the Slavic dialect, another case persists (Although different from the one in Proto-Grekelin), the dative case:

| Nominative || (A) gnújza || (A) gegnújzek

| Accusative || Ecs gnújza || Ecs gegnújzek

| Dative || Gnujzadúk || Gegnujzadúkek

| Vocative || Oh gnújzae || Oh gegnújzaek

| Nominative || (E) kuklí || (E) kekuklímek

| Accusative || Ecs kuklí || Ecs kuklí

| Dative || Kuklidúk || Kekuklikedúk

| Vocative || Oh kuklí || Oh keklukímeka

Grekelin today has about 50 thousand speakers, spread out all across Central Europe. Out of them, 28.000 lived in Hungary, another 16.500 live in Serbia or Greece, and 15.500 live in Slovakia or Ukraine ([[w:Carpathia|Carpathia]]). It forms the majority language in villages of [[w:North Banat|North Banat]] and some spread out parts of [[w:Slovakia|Slovakia]] and [[w:Ukraine|Ukraine]]. It forms a significant language in Hungary and is also spoken in [[w:Greece|Greece]], primarily from learners. The populations of Serbia and Slovakia speak the Slavic dialect whereas the Hungarian populations speak the Standard dialect.

Grekelin does not have any rules on the stress placement. The stress may go on any position <b>unless</b> the final vowel is doubled*, where the stress is automatically passed there.

The standard Grekelin dialect makes stressed syllables have longer length, a remnant of the Classical Greek vowel length feature. Slavic Grekelin instead makes all the phonemes have the same length.

 

<small>''*Doubled vowels are largely extinct in Modern Grekelin, as '''oo''' for example would become '''ojzo'''.''</small>

Grekelin preserved all Medieval Greek vowels, except for /y/. Vowel length was already lost although some Slavic subdialects do preserve the Proto-Grekelin rule, where a stressed vowel becomes slightly longer and pronounced more clearly.

# Grekelin: '''E leleóttek íwlima'''

| Good night! || ''Jo niktrá!'' || /d͡ʒo njk'tr̩ɑ/

| What? || ''Ti?'' || /ti/

| Where? || ''Pe?'' || /pɛ/

| How? || ''Posz?'' || /ˈpoʃ/

| Do you speak English? || ''Relalíte a egzlézikin?'' || /rɛ.ɫɑˈɫ̩ita ɑ ɛɟkʱˈɫɛ.zikiŋ/

| I do not understand Grekelin. || ''U nyõ a gnújza Grekelénikin.'' || /u ɲoː ɑ ˈɡnud͡ʒɑ ɡrɛˈkɛ.ɫɛnikiŋ/

| The study of Grekelin sharpens the mind. || ''Máttkiszi ta Grekelénikis peiá a nu kowtoérta.'' || /'matkisi grːɛkɛˈlɛ.nikibiː pjɑ α nu kovtoˈɛr.ta/

| Where are you from? || ''Pe énte ecs szy?'' || /pɛ ˈɛnte ɛt͡s ʃi/