Lenyan: Difference between revisions

|nativename       = leñ yen toynoqŭğ<br/>leñoqŭr

|pronunciation = {{IPA|[ˈleɲ jən ˈtɔjnɔqɯɣ]}}<br/>{{IPA|[ˈleɲɔqɯr]}}

|region       = Leny-þef

|ethnicity    = Leny (''leñoqŭroʻr'')

|familycolor  = #6495ED

|creator      = [[User:Lili21|Lili21]]

|script        = Chlouvānem script for Lenyan

|nation        = Leny-þef

'''Lenyan''', natively ''leñ yen toynoqŭğ'' or simply ''leñoqŭr'', is a [[Verse:Calémere|Calémerian]] language spoken on Márusúturon, belonging to the [[Kenengyry languages|Kenengyry family]] (''kinanğoʻrŭn yen toynoqŭğoʻr''). It is the ethnic language of the Leny people (''leñ hol'' or ''leñoqŭroʻr'') and the only official language in their nation state, Leny-þef, situated on the coast of High and Little Ivulit (known in Leny as ''šağolqŭp yen doʻyor'' "the Gateway Sea" and ''qŭrŭmqey yen doʻyor'' "the Green Sea" respectively) just opposite Qualdomailor, roughly between 29º and 34ºN. It is one of the most divergent Kenengyry languages, the only one in the family not mutually intelligible with any other sister language. As such, it does not have features otherwise common in most languages of the family, such as phonemic vowel length, suffixed definite articles, or consonant gradation.

It is moderately known in the areas just outside the Leny borders (Ebed-dowa to the north, Džemleštew to the west, and the Chlouvānem Inquisition (dioceses of Līnajoṭa and Yultijaiṭa) to the south), but most Leny are proficient in the area's two main lingue franche, [[Soenjoan]] (in Leny ''soʻyŭnqa yen toynoqŭğ'') used among Kenengyry peoples and more broadly [[Chlouvānem]] (''cenavonŭm yen toynoqŭğ''), the latter of which contributed to a huge amount of terminology to Leny, which is therefore included among the main Imuniguro-Xenic languages. It is spoken by about 12.5 million people, roughly 82% of which in Leny-þef, with a further 12% in the Inquisition and the rest in other countries of the former Kaiṣamā, especially in the Kenengyry world.

As all languages of those areas of Vīṭadælteh which were part of the former Kaiṣamā, Lenyan's native script has been, for the last 60 years, an adapted version of the [[Chlouvānem#Writing_system_-_J.C4.ABmal.C4.81.E1.B9.87a|Chlouvānem abugida]], somewhat inspired by the already existant orthographies of other Kenengyry languages in the Chlouvānem script but for the most part natively decided by Leny linguists. Chlouvānem loanwords are, in the most formal registers, written etymologically, as they are in Chlouvānem, while in less informal styles they are written according to Leny pronunciation.

 

The native name of both the people (Leny) and the country (Leny-þef) used here is the most common used one in the Western Bloc of Calémere, being the transcription into Nordûlaki of both words. In the native orthography, they are written as ''leñ'' and ''leñ ṱef'' respectively (note that the Chlouvānem script is caseless).

Lenyan has an average consonant inventory consisting of 22 phonemes, none of them particularly rare cross-linguistically:

| '''m''' m || '''n''' n || || ||

| '''p''' p || '''t''' t || || '''k''' k || '''q''' q

| '''b''' b || '''d''' d || || '''g''' g ||

| || || '''c''' tʃ || ||

| || || '''j''' dʒ || ||

| '''f''' f || '''s''' s<br/>'''š''' ʃ<br/>'''ṱ''' θ || || colspan=2 | '''h''' x~χ

| || '''z''' z || || colspan=2 | '''ğ''' ɣ~ʁ

| || '''l''' l || || ||

| || '''r''' r || || ||

| || || '''y''' j || '''v''' w¹ ||

| '''i ü''' i y || '''ŭ''' ɯ || '''u''' u

| rowspan=2 | '''e ö''' e øː || rowspan=2 | || '''oʻ''' o

| '''o''' ɔ

| || '''a''' a ||

| '''oy''' ɔʏ̯<br/>'''aj''' ai̯<br/>'''ej''' ei̯¹ || || '''av''' au̯¹