Etzeá

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Etzeá
e etzeá
Pronunciation[ɨ.ɨd͡zeə̯]
Created byJukethatbox
Date2023
Native toEtzeán Island
Yeldhic
  • Etzeic(?)
    • Etzeá
Standard forms
Etzeá Standard
Mt. Ogoñi Standard
Dialects
  • Duzuyel-Nyimörs dialects
  • Southern Sunyr dialects
    • Tisli dialect
    • Ntifi dialect
Official status
Recognised minority
language in
Moshurian Empire
Etzean.jpeg
Etzeán Island. Most Etzeá speakers live on the western side of the island, past the Tûzogyâud Range.

Etzeá(e etzeá; [ɨ.ɨd͡zeə̯]) is the secondary language spoken on the island of Etzeán within the Moshurian Empire.

It is linguistically interesting because, philologically speaking, it is the closest living relative to Proto-Yeldhic in the Yeldhic language family.

History

Etymology

The name etzeá's etymology is heavily debated, though one theory is that it developed agglutinatively by the combination of one word and a case marker: Proto-Yeldhic *estu, "land" and ablative case marker *-ē, or in other words, *estʷē, "away from the mainland".

Formation

The first Etzeic peoples were a Proto-Yeldhic people who probably inhabited Kokiso Point, the closest coastal landmark on Talkoch to Etzeán Island. They probably arrived on Etzeán Island around 2400 UH, just in time before the development of the Paleoyeldhic languages on the mainland in 2370 UH. On Etzeán Island, the Etzeic peoples spread all the way to the Tûzogyâud Range by 1750 UH. The areas around Mount Ogoñi was settled later, around 1600 UH.

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