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'''Lifashian''', natively referred to as ''(at) lífasyátat'' or ''(sá) gulká lífasyása'', is an [[w:Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] language, an isolate inside the family, spoken in an alternate timeline of Earth in the northeastern corner of [[w:Anatolia|Asia Minor]], i.e. the historical region of [[w:Pontus (region)|Pontus]] and neighboring areas across the Pontic Alps into the [[w:Armenian highlands|Armenian highlands]]. It is the official language of the former Soviet republic of ''Dár Lífasyám'', spoken by the majority of its population. Lifashian is the native language of about 3,6 million people in the world, the majority of which in Dár Lífasyám and neighboring areas in Eastern Turkey; a small Lifashian diaspora is found mostly in Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, as well as in some Western European countries. | '''Lifashian''', natively referred to as ''(at) lífasyátat'' or ''(sá) gulká lífasyása'', is an [[w:Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] language, an isolate inside the family, spoken in an alternate timeline of Earth in the northeastern corner of [[w:Anatolia|Asia Minor]], i.e. the historical region of [[w:Pontus (region)|Pontus]] and neighboring areas across the Pontic Alps into the [[w:Armenian highlands|Armenian highlands]]. It is the official language of the former Soviet republic of ''Dár Lífasyám'', spoken by the majority of its population. Lifashian is the native language of about 3,6 million people in the world, the majority of which in Dár Lífasyám and neighboring areas in Eastern Turkey; a small Lifashian diaspora is found mostly in Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, as well as in some Western European countries. | ||
Lifashian developed on its own, distinctly from other Indo-European languages, | Lifashian developed on its own, distinctly from other Indo-European languages, | ||
although it is definitely closer to the [[w:Anatolian languages|Anatolian languages]], particularly the [[w:Luwian language|Luwian]] subgroup, than to other languages in the family, despite sharing some traits with [[w:Armenian language|Armenian]], and [[w:Greek language|Greek]]. Its vocabulary has a substantial number of inherited roots, but through millennia the language absorbed many loanwords, especially from [[w:Persian language|Persian]] and [[w:Arabic language|Arabic]] (through the former), and to smaller extents from its neighbours Armenian, the [[w:Kartvelian languages|Kartvelian languages]] and [[w:Turkish language|Turkish]], as well as from Greek and [[w:Russian language|Russian]]. Long-term Genoese colonization and reciprocal contacts also introduced many [[w:Ligurian (Romance language)|Ligurian]] loans, as well as forming one of the main ethnic minorities in the country, Lifashian Ligurians, which had a marked influence on the culture of coastal urban areas. | |||
It is written in the Lifashian alphabet, a bicameral script ultimately related to other ancient scripts of Asia Minor like the [[w:Lydian alphabet|Lydian alphabet]]. | It is written in the Lifashian alphabet, a bicameral script ultimately related to other ancient scripts of Asia Minor like the [[w:Lydian alphabet|Lydian alphabet]]. | ||
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Lifashian has been written since ancient times in its own alphabet; initially a derivative of other ancient scripts of Asia Minor (possibly from the [[w:Lydian alphabet|Lydian alphabet]], which it shares most of the alphabetical order with), it later further modified the ancient letters, which became the modern majuscules, and developed its own set of minuscule letters, which are today most often very different from the majuscules. Cursive minuscules (not in the table below) are furthermore often quite different from both sets. | Lifashian has been written since ancient times in its own alphabet; initially a derivative of other ancient scripts of Asia Minor (possibly from the [[w:Lydian alphabet|Lydian alphabet]], which it shares most of the alphabetical order with), it later further modified the ancient letters, which became the modern majuscules, and developed its own set of minuscule letters, which are today most often very different from the majuscules. Cursive minuscules (not in the table below) are furthermore often quite different from both sets. | ||
[[File:Lifashian alphabet.png|thumb|border|center|756x540px||alt=Table of the Lifashian alphabet|The Lifashian script.]] | [[File:Lifashian alphabet.png|thumb|border|center|756x540px||alt=Table of the Lifashian alphabet|The Lifashian script.]] | ||
The common sequence {{IPA|/ŋn/}} is written as '''mm'''. | The common sequence {{IPA|/ŋn/}} is written as '''mm'''. | ||