Vethari

Vethari
Pronunciation	[[w:Help:IPA|[[]]]]
Created by	–
Setting	Vetharin
Native to	All of Vetharin, and exceeding the border into India. It is less prevalent in the West and South.
Native speakers	63.5 million (2021)
Language family	Vethari North Vethari Classical Vethari Vethari

Vethari is the official language of Vetharin, a kingdom located north in the Vetharin Peninsula, that goes off the northeast coast of India into the Bay of Bengal. It’s the mother tongue from 63.5 million people, that is 96% of the country’s population of 66.1 million, although it is not spoken so much on the west and south regions. On the other hand, it is spoken at a certain level on the other side of the border with India, with around 2 million speakers there. During World War II, a massive immigration from Vethari occurred, scattering speaker all across the world, but specially on England, Brazil, United States and Spain.

Vethari has only 2 dialects, although there is a standard form, that is the one taught in the schools and also the one that it is studied in this article. Vethari uses the Vethari script, that evolved from the Brahmi script. It is an abugida, like its ancestor. A standard romanization was made in 1898 and it used on guides, grammar books and transcriptions. The romanization is used on this article for being easier to understand. On certain places of Vetharin, people write with the Latin alphabet.Vethari is an Active-Stative morphosyntactically aligned language. It has a phonology consisting of 29 consonants and 9 vowels.

See Also

• Proto-Vethari
• Naythiri
• Oralathi

Sources

• Grammatica Uetari, 1762, Ernest Hilbert McCartney
• The Rttirrian Language, 1895, Obediah Taylor