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-'''Wistanian''' (IPA: /wɪsˈteɪni.ən/), natively known as '''anigalilaun''' (IPA: /əˈniɡəˌlilɑn/), is the first [[w: Constructed_language|constructed language]] (conlang) by world-builder, writer, and professional amateur Paul A. Daly, written in 2017 and 2018. The language was created for a novel series. The first novel is near completion, but will likely remain unpublished until the author finishes his education.
+'''Wistanian''' (IPA: /wɪsˈteɪni.ən/), natively known as '''anigalilaun''' (IPA: /əˈniɡəˌlilɑn/) or 'peace language',  is an ''a priori'' artistic [[w: Constructed_language|constructed language]] created by author, student, and future ESL teacher Paul A. Daly for a series of low fantasy books that he plans to write and publish once he's done with his education. It is spoken as a ''lingua franca'' on the island of Wistania, derived from the Taliv language after their speakers came into contact with speakers of the Nati language. These two people groups allied during the Wistanian War between them and the Bwolotil people. After the war ended with a peace treaty, the language was standardized, recorded, and taught around the island as "the language of peace" and set as the official language of the united government. During the events of the novels, three hundred years after the peace treaty, around 95% of the population speak Wistanian; 60% of whom learn it natively and 20% of whom speak it exclusively.
-The language is spoken on the fictional planet Vale, on a large yet isolated island called Wistania. The language belongs to the Talivian sub-family, which evolved steadily throughout the Taliv's existence. After having been settled on by the Taliv for several hundred years, the island became the new home for the Bwolotil people, who had fled to the island to hide a large collection of magical and extremely dangerous ajmastones. The Bwolitil were originally apathetic toward the Taliv until they discovered that the Taliv held one such ajmastone as a central symbol of their culture. The Bwolotil, therefore, engaged in war with the Taliv to apprehend their ajmastone. Three separate people groups also inhabited the island during this war, one of which was the Nati people who allied with the Taliv to win the war. This alliance led to the formation of the Taliv-Nati [[w: Pidgin|pidgin]], which was later named ''anigalilaun'', meaning "the language of peace". During the events of the novel series (about 300 years after the end of the war) Wistanian is the majority language of the island. The language also has a number of influences from the Katapu (sister peoples to the Nati and known for their religious traditionalism), the Uzin (a people distantly related to the Bwolotil who settled the island shortly after the beginning of the war), and the Bwolotil.
+Wistanian is classified as a mixed language, drawing its roots from Taliv, but borrowing a large amount of words, phrases, and grammar from the Nati, Katapu, Uzin, and Bwolotil languages, spoken by the five people groups that occupy the island. Although there is a standardized dialect, Wistanian has a large amount of dialectal variation and a number of registers.
-Wistanian is typologically an [[w: Analytic_language|analytic language]] with very small elements of [[w: Agglutinative_language|agglutination]]. Its grammar is initially simple to grasp, lacking noun gender and case, and possessing few verbal conjugations, although most of its difficulty is syntactic and lexical. Despite having a rather regular morphology due to pidginization, there are several groups of words within the same lexical category which operate differently from each other. Wistanian is primarily written using the Talivian Alphabet, but some alternate scripts do exist, namely the Diwa Alphabet and Nati [[w: Abugida|Abugida]].
+Wistanian is typologically an [[w: Analytic_language|analytic language]] with very small elements of [[w: Agglutinative_language|agglutination]], morphosyntactically a [[w:Nominative–accusative_language|nominative-accusative langauge]], and syntactically a [[w: Verb–subject–object|VSO language]] with strong [[w: Head-directionality_parameter|head-initial]] tendencies. Its phonology is fairly small, with an entirely voiced fricative set and no round vowels. Each verb has a stative and durative form, and count nouns are only declined for plural number if their number is more than five. There is a large collection of grammatical particles and honorifics, but no distinctive lexical category for adpositions, adjectives, adverbs, or conjunctions. Verbs are  The langauge is primarily written using the Talivian Alphabet, but some alternate scripts do exist, namely the Diwa Alphabet and Nati [[w: Abugida|Abugida]].
 ==Introduction==