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|agency = Academy of the Wendlandish Language<br/>''akademíla ið lyngra Vinnurlænska'' | |agency = Academy of the Wendlandish Language<br/>''akademíla ið lyngra Vinnurlænska'' | ||
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[[File:Wendlands-flag.png|200px|thumb| | [[File:Wendlands-flag.png|200px|thumb|right|Flag of the Wendlands]] | ||
'''Wendlandish''', natively ''Vinnurlænska'' or ''lyngra Vinnurlænska'', is a Romance language spoken in an uchronic Earth, in the area of real-world Pomerania. | '''Wendlandish''', natively ''Vinnurlænska'' or ''lyngra Vinnurlænska'', is a Romance language spoken in an uchronic Earth, in the area of real-world Pomerania. | ||
The only member of the Northern Romance branch, Wendlandish has, due to relative and long isolation from the rest of the Romance-speaking world, followed its own path of evolution and has absorbed lots of words, grammatical features, and influence on phonology, from its neighboring languages: most prominently Old Norse, but also Proto-Slavic, Baltic languages, Low German and, more recently, Standard High German and Polish. | The only member of the Northern Romance branch, Wendlandish has, due to relative and long isolation from the rest of the Romance-speaking world, followed its own path of evolution and has absorbed lots of words, grammatical features, and influence on phonology, from its neighboring languages: most prominently Old Norse, but also Proto-Slavic, Baltic languages, Low German and, more recently, Standard High German and Polish. | ||