Wendlandish: Difference between revisions

{{Infobox language

|name          = Wendlandish

|nativename    = lyngra Vinnurlænska

|region        = Alt-Northern Europe

|ethnicity    = Wends/Wendlanders (''Vinnurlænsker'')

|fam3          = Romance

|fam4          = Northern Romance

|created      = Jul 2016

|setting      = Alt-Earth

|nation        = the Wendlands

|agency        = Academy of the Wendlandish Language<br/>''akademíla ið lyngra Vinnurlænska''

}}

'''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.

: '''pufl''' (m) (people): pufl (sg. ind.) - pufl'''ir''' (pl. ind.) - pufl'''ir''' (sg. def.) - pufl'''yllir''' (pl. def.) (see below for the ''-ir'' plural)

: '''lynga''' (f) (language): lyng'''a''' - lyng'''ar''' - lyng'''ra''' - lyng'''allar'''

Other special cases:

* Masculine nouns in '''-ð''' change this consonant to '''d''' in declined forms, e.g. '''ølð''' (ship): ølð - ølder - øldil - øldylir;

** This change does not happen after ''-r'' and ''-j'', e.g. '''arvejð''' (work): arvejð - arvejðer - arvejðil - arvejðylir;

* Feminine nouns in '''-æt''' (< Latin ''-itate'') change this final ''t'' into ''ð'' in declined forms, e.g. '''frjæt''' "truth": frjæt - frjæðir - frjæðla - frjæðillar;

* As seen in ''frjæt'', feminine nouns ending in a consonant have ''i'' as the thematic vowel for plural forms, e.g. ''forbindasj'' (''-asj'' < Lat. ''-ātiō'') "connection": forbindasj - forbindasjir - forbindasjla - forbindasjillar.

: ''delajr'' "to destroy" → ''delyt'' "destroyed" (''delita, delits'')

: ''hnovskir'' "to know" (unstr. stem ''hnusk-'') → ''hnuskyt'' "known" (''hnuskita, hnuskits'')

: ''milær'' "to smile" → ''milæt'' "smiled" (''milæta, milæts'')

: ''rjaser'' "to cut" → ''rjast'' "cut" (''rjasta, rjasts'')

: ''ditsir'' "to say" → ''føt'' "said" (< analog. *fātum; fem. ''fata'', pl. ''fats'')

: ''prilufir'' "to talk" → ''lukut'' "talked" (< ''locūtum''; fem. ''lukuta'', pl. ''lukuts'')

The '''past''' is formed by using the present forms of ''hav'' in front of the past participle. Its forms are: ''hav'' - ''hajs'' - ''hejt'' - ''høymur'' - ''hætir'' - ''hents'' - ''hejtse''.<br/>

====The renarrative past====

: ''If jatt ipist, hvofur if hejt aðøft propka.'' "He is late because he found a traffic jam." (I know for sure he was stuck in a traffic jam, hence the regular past (hejt aðøft < *habet adeptum))

: ''If jatt ipist, hvofur if eðpiskerit propka.'' "He is late because, he told me, he found a traffic jam." (I'm just reporting what he told me, without knowing for sure he was stuck in a traffic jam, hence the renarrative past (eðpiskerit < *adipīscerit)).

: ''vinsjir'' "to win", ''if vinsjit'' "he wins", ''if visjt'' (stem ''visj-'') "he apparently won" (< vincere, vincit, vīcit)

A few verbs whose stems end in ''-j'' assimilate it to ''s'' in the second persons, e.g. ''paskir'' "to feed", ''if pøjt'' "he apparently fed" but ''tsu pøsjti'', ''vovr pøsjtir''.<br/>

===Russian influence and ''Savjetskalgia''===

Russian influence in Wendlandish is mostly concentrated in the last century, but there's no doubt that it has tremendously impacted the language, not only in Soviet times but, possibly even more deeply, after the Soviet Union broke up. The early post-Soviet years were marked by a huge decline in the Wendlands and people immediately developed a strong sense of nostalgia for the Golden Age of the Wendlands - the days of the Soviet Union, when the Wendlands were a strategically important and cosmopolite part of the country due to it being its westernmost extent. This sense of nostalgia — called ''savjetskalgia'' as a portmanteau of ''savjetski'' (Soviet) and ''nostalgia'' — is still enormously visible in the prestige that the Russian language, emblem of the Soviet era, has in the Wendlands, probably even more than in Russia itself. Russian loans are entering Wendlandish en masse, often with a more "official" meaning when compared to the native Wendlandish term, and Russian is the preferred language of the Academy of the Wendlandish language in order to coin terms, to the extent that Wendlandish academics have recently coined terms from Russian roots that do not even exist in Russian, like ''vosjeni'' "car" (< ''воженный'' "driven"; though colloquial Wendlandish uses ''lada'' from the car brand) or ''hadifon'' for "mobile phone" (from ''ходить'' "to walk" and Wend./international ''telefon'').

Example of Russian loans into Wendlandish are:

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