Varletian

Varletian
Varleuteicher
Varleuteichois
Pronunciation	[vaʀ̥ɭøtɛʎʃwe]
Region	Varletia, Cryria
Ethnicity	Varletian
Native speakers	aproximatively 1 million speakers (2019) 1 million as first or second language
Language family	Arko-Lissian Varletian
Early form	Lissian
Official status
Official language in	Varletia Significant minority in Cryria
Regulated by	Varletian Language Office
Language codes
ISO 639-1	va
ISO 639-2	var
ISO 639-3	–

Varletian (Varleuteichois [vaʀ̥ɭøtɛʎʃwe]), is a language originating and still to this day spoken in Varletia and the southern parts of Cryria. Belonging to the Arko-Lissian family, it is the only kind of its own, born from the amalgamation of arkian vocabulary and pronounciation into the original lissian language.

Phonology

Consonant phonemes

Manner/Place	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palato-Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Glottal
Nasal	m		n
Plosive	p b		t d				k g
Affricate									ħ
Fricative		f v	s z
Approximant						j
Tap/Flap
Trill								ʀ̥
Lateral Approximant					ɭ	ʎ

Vowel phonemes

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Close-mid	e ø	o
Open-mid	ɛ	ɔ
Open	a

Accents

How isogloss are distributed in Varletia

Accentuation gradually increases further north, while in the south, the language is more "flat". The [ø] and [ɛ] standard sounds are respectively followed by [ħ] and [ʎ] or [j] in the north and in a less extent in the centre, while in the south there isn't any.

There's also a continuum from west to east related to the "ch" sound at the end of a word, as in Leumach: the glottal [h] in the far east becomes a pharyngeal [ħ] which evolves into a uvular [χ] on the west coast. Western people tend to be more uvular sounding while the closer to the east shore, the more aspirated it gets.

Linguistical Varieties

Varletia has approximately 6 or 7 dialects, all of them concentrated around the coast. These are mutually intelligible, including with standard Varletian, their differences being on the presence of a majority of "eu/ei" for some opposed to "o/i/u" for others. The Ouckeicher dialect is unique, as it is the only one to posess the "ou" [u] sound. As the other southern dialects, it is there that the lissian language has left most of its traces, while the arkian influence is much more dominant in the north.

The dialects of Varletia

Vocabulary

The Ethalrian Invasion has had a relevant impact on the everyday vocabulary spoken by Varletian people. The nobility, which was purely ethalrian and couldn't speak lissian, was far away from what an average inhabitant would say. Therefore, a noble would wear a cleidunnsteuck (m.) but the common peasant would only have a veiteumenn (m.) as clothes: still to this day, the first has a fancy and luxurious connotation while the other is related to the everyday life.

Same case with chveinn (f.) and reinn (f.) which is what a king was eating while porck (m.) and beuf (f.) was only a matter of the low classes. While consuming food, a bourgeois or noble would use a meseur (m.), a leufeil (m.) and a bereiche (m.) while a common citizen would get a cuteu (m.), a ceulleir (m.) and a feurcheit (m.).

Numbers

• 0. Neull
• 1. Eunn
• 2. Deuch
• 3. Treche
• 4. Veitr
• 5. Funn
• 6. Zeics
• 7. Zeiptunn
• 8. Hueicht
• 9. Neunn
• 10. Tseinn

Animals

• Dog = Chunn (m.)
• Cat = Cha (m.)
• Fish = Poisseiche (m.)
• Bird = Oizeu (m.)
• Cow = Veiche (m.)
• Pig = Porck (m.) / Cochunn (m.)
• Mouse = Seureiche (m.)
• Horse = Cheuveil (m.)
• Wing = Eileu (n.)
• Animal = Animeul (n.)