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==History== | ==History== | ||
[[File:Germanic dialects w.Lesionic.png|200px|thumb|The distribution of the primary Germanic languages in Europe in around AD 1: | |||
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{{legend|Blue|North Germanic, or '''Scandinavian'''}} | {{legend|Blue|North Germanic, or '''Scandinavian'''}} | ||
{{legend|Red|North Sea Germanic, or '''Ingvaeonic'''}} | {{legend|Red|North Sea Germanic, or '''Ingvaeonic'''}} | ||
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{{legend|Yellow|Elbe Germanic, or '''Irminonic'''}} | {{legend|Yellow|Elbe Germanic, or '''Irminonic'''}} | ||
{{legend|Green|Oder-Vistula Germanic, or '''Vistulic'''}}]] | {{legend|Green|Oder-Vistula Germanic, or '''Vistulic'''}}]] | ||
Cleepoyish is classified under the [[w:Germanic languages | Germanic]] family of the [[w:Indo-European languages | Indo-European languages]], specifically the Lesionic branch of Germanic (with the other branches being the [[w:North Germanic languages | Scandinavian]], [[w:North Sea Germanic | Ingvaeonic]], [[w:Weser–Rhine Germanic | Istvaeonic]], [[w:Elbe Germanic | Irminonic]], and [[w:East Germanic languages | Vistulic]] branches). Cleepoyish is generally divided into two periods: Old Cleepoyish (500–1600), which existed as a dialect continuum between collections of settlements on Cleepoy, and Modern Cleepoyish (1600–), which are the remaining dialects (including the standard vernacular). | |||
Cleepoyish | ===Etymology=== | ||
The name ''Cleepoyish'' comes from the island of ''Cleepoy'', attested in the English language from as early as 15<sup>th</sup> century. It is believed to have been imported from [[w: Middle Dutch | Middle Dutch]] ''Cleepoej(e)'', which in turn is ultimately from dialectical Old Cleepoyish ''Klippoujo'' (compare Růpläch Old Cleepoyish ''Klippæujœ'', yielding Modern Cleepoyish ''Klippäuj''), composed from ''klipp(e)'' (''"rock"; a [[w: Middle Low German | Middle Low German]] loan'') and ''oujo'' (''"island"''). The native name ''Klippöisk'' comes from virtually the same derivation, a shortening of Old ''Klippæujœisk'', from ''Klippæujœ'' plus ''-isk''. | |||
===Old Cleepoyish=== | ===Old Cleepoyish=== | ||
By the 6<sup>th</sup> century, the language spoken on Cleepoy by Lesionic peoples post-Slavic migration to Central Europe was discernably divergent enough to warrant its own language. Old Cleepoyish existed on | By the 6<sup>th</sup> century, the language spoken on Cleepoy by Lesionic peoples post-Slavic migration to Central Europe was discernably divergent enough to warrant its own language. The oldest attested Cleepoyish texts are of Late Old Cleepoyish in major cities and settlements, but due to descriptions of the language during that time and the great amount of inconsistency in writing, we can assume that Old Cleepoyish existed on an anomalously diverse dialect continuum, wherein each group of settlements would speak and attestedly write in a dialect slightly different from the neighboring settlements. For instance, "language" would be attested in forms ranging from ''mꜵþel'' (Růpläch) and ''maþl'' (Håsöl) all the way to ''mædel'' (Nykrįs), ''mofle'' (Kirpläch), and even ''metþil'' (Akripläch). | ||
===Modern Cleepoyish=== | ===Modern Cleepoyish=== | ||
Due to Cleepoy's strategic position and trade being the main source of income for many Cleepoyer cities, Cleepoyish would interact with a plethora of languages, ranging from Low German to Danish to Finnish. After the Danish invasion of the first unsuccessful independent Cleepoyer state in 1666, Cleepoy began to receive an increasing amount of Danish settlers, bringing their language with them. By 1800, nearly every major settlement had a Danish linguistic majority, with many dialect groups being permanently wiped and replaced by Danish. | |||
By the mid-20<sup>th</sup> century, approximately 80 years after the second Cleepoyish republic was established, a total revitalization plan for the Cleepoyish language, partly influenced by fascist rhetoric, was put into place. A standardized form of the language based on surviving Růpläch Cleepoyish dialects would be made, and would be made the sole official language of all aspects of life. Harsh measures were implemented, especially against Danish speakers, to establish needed the foundation of Standard Cleepoyish all across the island, to the extent that Denmark issued official disapproval to the Cleepoyish parliament. Nevertheless, it only took just over one generation to re-establish Cleepoyish as a majority language in Cleepoy, and so far it holds the absolute majority. | |||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||