Vaand

Vaand language
dà Vaandülg
Pronunciation	[/ˈvaːn.dʉlg/]
Created by	Raistas
Setting	parallel Earth
Ethnicity	Carpathian people
Native speakers	220 000 (2012 census)
Language family	Oronaic Alpian Vaand language
Early forms	Proto-Oronaic Proto-Alpian Old Alpian

The Vaand language (native name - dà Vaandülg) is one of the last two Alpian languages spoken by the Vaan people in Austria. It has approximately 220 000 native speakers (including speakers of North Vaand).

In the medieval times Vaand was dialectally diverse consisting of at least three major dialectal groups, however only two distinct dialects have survived to present days. Vaand is written in the Latin alphabet and in general is very similar to German alphabet which it has evolved from.

Linguistically Vaand is classified as a nominative-accusative language. Its phonology is similar to the phonology of neighbouring Austrian dialects of German, that influenced Vaand during all of its history. It is unique for the Alpian region, since it is a non-Indo-European language and its verb conjugation system is much more complex than in its neighbours. Vaand also has case clitics in nouns and a polypersonal agreement in verbs. Typologically it is between fusional and agglutinative languages and has a complex inflection system for nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs, depending on their roles in the sentence.

Phonology

Vowels

There are twenty one vowel, most of which create long-short vowel pairs.

Long vowels Front Back Unrounded Rounded Unrounded Rounded Close iː yː uː Mid eː øː oː Open æː aː

Short vowels Front Central Back Unrounded Rounded Rounded Close i y u Close-Mid ɪ ʏ~ʉ ʊ Mid e ø ə o Open æ a ɒ