Xanian

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Xanian
Vâka Xâkömarī
Vâkâ Xâkömârī.png
Vâkâ Xâkömârī in written Xanian in Vanka
Pronunciation[/vɐka ʒɐkɵmaɹɪ/]
Created byVivaporius
Native toXania
Native speakers5,270,832 in the United States
334,656 overseas (2014)
Xanic
  • Xanian
Standard form
Official status
Official language in
Xania
Regulated byImperial Xanian Linguistics Institute
Language codes
ISO 639-1xa
ISO 639-2xan
ISO 639-3xan
Xanian speakers in North America.png
Location of nations where Xanian is a spoken language
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Xanian (Vâka Xâkömarī, /vɐka ʒɐkɵmaɹɪ/) is a North American language spoken by 5.6 million people, and the official language of Xania. It is a member of the Xanic language family, and largely regarded as a language isolate, the second largest of its type in the world after Korean. For centuries, the Xanian language has remained distinct and separate from the rest of the languages around it, with little influence on the language until Xania's emergence into the world community in the late 1800s. Virtually nothing is known of the language's prehistory, and all information on when it first appeared in North America exists, leaving many to speculate that the language arrived with Xanians sometime around 1200 AD.

Phonology and orthography

Main articles: Xanian phonology and IPA for Xanian

Consonants

Vowels

Digraphs and trigraphs

Alphabet

Nota bene

Grammar

Cases

Nouns

Masculine

Feminine

Neuter

Diminutives and augmentatives

Articles

Definite

Indefinite

Adjectives

Comparatives

More

Less

As... as

Superlatives

Most

Least

Personal pronouns

Masculine

Feminine

Neuter

Reflexive

Possessives

Interrogative pronouns

Relative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns

Verbs

Tenses and moods

Indicative mood
Conditional mood
Imperative mood

Voices

Continuous

Gnomic

Reflexives

Polarity

Irregular verbs

Adverbs

Word order

Numerals

Cardinal

Ordinal

Adverbial

Multiplier

Distributive

Collective

Fractional

Ages

Months of the year

Days of the week

Dates

"What date is it?"

"When?"

Times

"What time is it?"

"When?"

Seasons

Traditional

Xanian

Names

Vocabulary

Colours

Conjunctions

Contionary

Kinship

Points of the compass

Swadesh list

Weather phrases