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<b>Flewtish</b> ([[w:Endonym|endonym]]: <b> | <b>Flewtish</b> ([[w:Endonym|endonym]]: <b>Флӯтѡа [ˈɸluːtwa]</b> or <b>''Флӯтѡас глӯн''</b> [ˈɸluːtwas ɡluːŋ]) is a language spoken by the majority of the population in much of Northwest Russia and the [[w:Karelia|Karelia region]]. Flewtish is a [[w:Language isolate|language isolate]], meaning it does not [[w:Genetic relationship (linguistics)|genetically relate]] to any other known language on the planet. | ||
Flewtish is typologically agglutinative, using almost exclusively suffixal affixation to indicate number, tense, person and case. Flewtish is partially a [[w:Null-subject language|null-subject language]], depending on whether the subject can be implicitly indicated with certainty or not. Due to the [[w:Sprachbund|sprachbund effect]], Flewtish is an [[w:Subject–verb–object word order|SVO language]], but more archaic dialects are actually [[w:Subject–object-verb word order|SOV ones]]. It is a biscriptal language, using both the Latin and Cyrillic scripts to be written. An important aspect of the language is differentiating between labialized and non-labialized consonants (Referred in Flewtish as "rounded" and "unrounded") see eg. [ˈkʷáɣ.ok] "Warmth" and [ˈkáɣ.ok] "Deer". | Flewtish is typologically agglutinative, using almost exclusively suffixal affixation to indicate number, tense, person and case. Flewtish is partially a [[w:Null-subject language|null-subject language]], depending on whether the subject can be implicitly indicated with certainty or not. Due to the [[w:Sprachbund|sprachbund effect]], Flewtish is an [[w:Subject–verb–object word order|SVO language]], but more archaic dialects are actually [[w:Subject–object-verb word order|SOV ones]]. It is a biscriptal language, using both the Latin and Cyrillic scripts to be written. An important aspect of the language is differentiating between labialized and non-labialized consonants (Referred in Flewtish as "rounded" and "unrounded") see eg. [ˈkʷáɣ.ok] "Warmth" and [ˈkáɣ.ok] "Deer". | ||
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While standardized, the language spans over a massive geographical area and as a result, forms a dialect continuum with the most extreme corners (from east Finland to [[w:Ukhta]] being completely unintelligible to each other. One example could be the simple sentence "My favorite pets are cats". Following are the two examples in the dialects spoken in Ukhta and Arkhangelsk respectively: | While standardized, the language spans over a massive geographical area and as a result, forms a dialect continuum with the most extreme corners (from east Finland to [[w:Ukhta]] being completely unintelligible to each other. One example could be the simple sentence "My favorite pets are cats". Following are the two examples in the dialects spoken in Ukhta and Arkhangelsk respectively: | ||
# Мўлъ | # Мўлъ гԝoшў чуннoк мау (Favorite-NOM me-CAU pet-PL cat) | ||
# | # Ӻакныгԝoдон цўнъук маук (Favorite-me-GEN pet-PL cat-PL) | ||
==Etymology and history== | ==Etymology and history== | ||
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| Instrumental || -om || Dõmmaom || With a house || If it conflicts with the accusative, then it becomes -on | | Instrumental || -om || Dõmmaom || With a house || If it conflicts with the accusative, then it becomes -on | ||
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| Causal-Final || -scü || Dommascü || For the house || - | |||
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| Negation || -n + -nde || Gende ndommande || Not a house || Not a case exactly, also mostly dialectal by now. | | Negation || -n + -nde || Gende ndommande || Not a house || Not a case exactly, also mostly dialectal by now. | ||