Grekelin: Difference between revisions

|state            = [[w:Slovakia]], [[w:Hungary]], [[w:Serbi]]a

|stand1            = Standard Grekelin

|nation            = [[w:Vojvodina]]

Grekelin ([[w:Autoglossonym|Autoglossonym]]: ''A gnudzsa Grekelenikin'', pronounced: /a ˈɡnʊd͡ʑɑ grːɛkɛˈlɛnikin/, lit. "The Grekelin language") is a [[w:Hellenic languages|Hellenic]] language spoken in [[w:Vojvodina]], southern [[w:Hungary]] and small parts of [[w:Slovakia]]. Grekelin split from [[w:Medieval Greek|Medieval Greek]] around the 11th century with the mass settlement of Hungary by [[w:Greeks|Greek]] refugees, and has since then split for more than 10 centuries from Greek. For the largest part of its existence, Grekelin was mostly a spoken language, and the language began systematically being written down around the 19th century (From where it gained it's modern orthography by Catholics). Due to its low prestige, most of its educated speakers preferred writing in Koine, Latin or Hungarian before and few texts were written until then in Grekelin, most of which used the Greek script instead (See [[Old Grekelin]]), leading to multiple archaisms appearing within the language (Eg. Greek and most Greek dialects use the verb "Φτιάχνω" /ˈftia.xno/ whereas Grekelin uses the verb "Peio" (pʲɪ̯o) from Ancient Greek "ποιέω/ποιώ".

As a related language to Greek, Grekelin shares with Greek multiple features and cognates. 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, due to the strong adstratum formed by Hungarian (Though, due to geography, the Slavic dialect got its name from its stronger Slavic influence). Grekelin is the most isolated Hellenic language currently in the entire world, with about 1200 kilometers of language seperation.

The Grekelin alphabet consists of 24 letters, four of which are vowels, two semivowels and 18 are consonants.

| Ei (When behind a consonant or ο, it makes the /ji/ sound) || Chs (Makes the /kz/ sound) || Zs (Makes the /ʑ/ sound) || Sz (Makes the /ɕ/ sound)

The grammar of Grekelin is generally very simple and consistent. It is very conservative compared to Greek (Or dialects of it). The most outstanding feature would probably be that of vowel harmony, which is found at least in both the standard and slavic dialects.

Grekelin has 4 cases: Nominative, genitive, accusative and vocative. In the Slavic dialect, another case exists, the dative case. Remember that Grekelin has developed vowel harmony in the language so it's

| Genitive || Ca gnudzsas || Co gnudzsun

| Vocative || O gnudzsae || Oh gnudzse

| 1st person || Peió || Peiómen || Epeióme || Epeiómetta

| 2nd person || Peié || Peiéte || Peióse || Epeiósase

| 3rd person || Peiei || Peíanda || Peiándande || Epeiándande

Grekelin today has about 100 thousand speakers, spread out in Hungary, Serbia and a tiny minority in Slovakia. It forms the majority language in villages of [[w:North Banat|North Banat]] and some spread out parts of [[w:Slovakia|Slovakia]]. It forms a significant language in Hungary and is also spoken in [[w:Greece|Greece]], primarily from migrants. The populations of Serbia and Slovakia speak the Slavic dialect whereas the Hungarian population speaks 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 a long one, where the stress is automatically passed there.

However, like it's ancestor Greek, Grekelin maintains most words' stress in one of the three syllables in the end, with the highest frequency being the 2nd one.

Grekelin preserved all Medieval Greek vowels (Thanks to shared phonology with Hungarian). Depending on the dialect, vowel length does persist, however Standard Grekelin does not enforce vowel length distinction in any vowel. ('íosz' (son) and 'iosz' (death) are the same except for the first vowel, which is a long one in son).

Many consonants underwent a very regular but much more extensive evolution found in most Greek dialects, called Tsitakismos, where /k/ and /c/ are palatalized. Modern Grekelin further merged many consonants and clusters in words into /d͡ʑ/, such as /ks/, /z/, /n/, /k/ and /ɣ/. /l/ became entirely /ɫ/, something only common in Macedonia then. Finally, in Proto-Grekelin, if the preceding letter was a consonant, /v/ became /β/.

| No || ''uk'' || /uk/

| Hello! || ''Dzsóvorzo!'' (Formal) / ''Gya!'' (Informal) || /'d͡ʑoβorzo/ /ɟɑː/

| Who? || ''Pkios?'' || /pkʲos/

'''[ˈpa.di lɛlɛˈo.tɘk lɛˈlɛɕtɛˌrɛk kʲa meˈmiɕɛk vɛˈvortamɛk jis ˈmɛlto.ˌsagi kia ˈjogatɛk ‖ demˈdorizaˌndɛk mi ˈɛɕɛli kʲa sinindisi kʲa prepi na ɛt͡ɕiˈnɑlnamɛk ɛn jis aɫiɫa jis ɛn ˈɕɛlɛmi t͡sa aˈderfiktas]'''