Zuvish language

Zuvish (Zŵvisk or Zŵvisk tāl, pronounced [t͡sɨfɪʃk taːl]), or historically in English Luswelian (Lūswelsk, pronounced [luːsvelʃk]) is a spoken by approximately 60 million people as their native language, mostly in the Commowealth of Zuvland and its former possessions. Related to and, it has seen few evolutions over time due to the insular nature of the country, its grammar and writing system remaining unchanged since the 11th century, despite the fact that a greater contact with speakers of different languages started to influence Zuvish vocabulary during the early stages of globalization.

The earliest commonly-accepted veriety of Zuvish, the Ecornian dialect, was reportedly spoken around the capital city of Eikhoorn during the 8th century, believed to descend from Old Zuva, the language of the Zuva settlers. It quickly spread to the entirety of the island of Luswelia along with the Ecornian conquests, then further into Wallica and Aurcania. Finally, Zuvish would be carried by merchants and colonists in the early modern period, increasing the language's influence. Nowadays, despite declining during the 20th century and losing most of its influence to and, as well as other languages, Zuvish remains a notable language, with an important role in Avalonian trade and diplomacy. It is an official working language of the Avalonian Union, Gaullican Defence Treaty and Eleuthean Island States Community.

Orthography
Like a lot of other Avalonian languages, the Zuvish language uses a variation of the to base its alphabet and orthography on. It consists of 31 independent glyphs, with some of them being adorned with to indicate a variation of the glyph's sound.

Diacritics
There are three main diacritics used in the Zuvish language: the (¯), the  (ˆ) and the  or omlāt (¨). All three alter the sound of the letter they are placed above.

The macron, written as a horizontal stroke above the letter, indicates the long length of the vowel sound it alters. ā will thus be pronounced /aː/, as if the phoneme was written as "aa". It can be placed on top of all vowel letters but œ, giving ā, ē, ī, ō, ū, ȳ, and ǣ.

The circumflex can only change the sound of two letters : w and y. Ŵ will change the sound of the letter from a /v/ to a  /ɨ/. Such an alteration probably results from the evolution of old digraph wy, used to translitterate the same sound in the first Ecornian dialects. Meanwhile, Ŷ is a ligature of letters i and j, pronounced /ɛi/, to which the circumflex was added to distinct it from the vowel sound /y/, which already had the same letter assigned to it.

Finally, the diaeresis permits to separate two consecutive vowel sounds, and can only be placed on non-ligatured vowels (ä, ë, ï, ö, ü and ÿ). For example, while en leid is pronounced [en laɪt] and means "a song", en leïd, pronounced [en le.ɪt] means "an ache".

Greetings

 * Hello - Hallo
 * Welcome - Wolkom
 * Good morning - Gyd morntŷd
 * Good afternoon - Gyd nāgmiddaj
 * Good evening - Gydafond
 * Good night - Gydnagt
 * Goodbye - Gydbaj (formal), Tsyss (informal)
 * How are you? - Hu sŷnn ze? (formal), Hu biss' ? (informal)
 * What is your name? - Hwat es dune nām?
 * My name is... - Mine nām es...
 * Thank you - Þank der
 * You're welcome - Fan ingeding
 * Yes - Ja
 * No - Nē
 * Who? - Hwer?
 * What? - Hwat?
 * Where? - Hwonn?
 * When? - Hwann?
 * Why? - Hwarom?
 * How? - Hu?
 * Which? - Hwits?
 * How many? - Hu foll?

Conjunctions

 * and - ond

Prepositions

 * on - an
 * with - mid

Colours

 * black - swart
 * white - hwit
 * blue - blaƿ
 * red - rod
 * green - grȳn
 * yellow - gelw
 * purple - lila
 * orange - oranje
 * brown - brun
 * pink - penk
 * gray - graƿ

Miscellany

 * new - nief
 * old - ūd

Days of the week

 * Monday - Mondaj
 * Tuesday - Dinnedaj
 * Wednesday - Midwog
 * Thursday - Donnersdaj
 * Friday - Vrŷdaj
 * Saturday - Lœrdaj
 * Sunday - Zonnedaj

Months of the year

 * January - Januäri
 * Tuesday - Februäri
 * March - Marts
 * April - April
 * May - Māj
 * June - Juni
 * July - Juli
 * August - Agust
 * September - September
 * October - Oktober
 * November - Nowember
 * December - Dezember

Miscellany

 * morning - morntŷd
 * afternoon - nāgmiddaj
 * evening - afond
 * night - nagt
 * day - daj
 * week - wog
 * month - moned
 * year - jeär
 * decade - jeärzentŷd, dekade
 * century - jeärhundarttŷd
 * millenium - jeärtœsinntŷd, millenium
 * today - hute
 * tonight - dīsenagt
 * yesterday - gestardaj
 * tomorrow - morntŷd

Cities

 * airport - lovthaven
 * bank - bank
 * bridge - brig
 * city - stad
 * concert - conzert
 * exchange - stil àeroport, i àeroportiokmarked
 * exit - asgang
 * neighborhood, ward - lænskap
 * palace - paleŷs
 * pharmacy - apotēke
 * plaza, town square - torg
 * port - pōrt
 * rail station - bānhove
 * subway - U-bān
 * tramway - A-bān
 * bus - bys
 * highway - wagenbān
 * street - stross

At home

 * bed - bed
 * chair - stūl
 * drinking cup - kop
 * fork - gafel
 * knife - knive
 * spoon - spūn
 * house - huze
 * money - geld
 * pan - pann
 * plate - plāt
 * room - rūm

Food and drink

 * apple - apvel
 * apricot - aprikot
 * artichoke - artisot
 * beer - biēr
 * bread - brod
 * chicory - sikoree
 * coffee - cafee
 * grape - greip
 * pea - erwt
 * pistachio - pistās
 * saffron - safron
 * salad - salad
 * salt - salz
 * shrimp - srimp
 * prawn - prun
 * wine - wŷnn
 * to drink - drinken
 * to eat - assen

Relationships

 * mother - muder, mama
 * father - fater, papa
 * son - zon
 * daughter - dot
 * nephew - emke
 * niece - mojke
 * grandson - klenzon
 * granddaughter - klenedot
 * grandmother - grōtemuder, mami
 * grandfather - grōtfater, papi
 * great grandmother - urgrōtemuder
 * great grandfather - urgrōtfater
 * uncle - unkel
 * aunt - tante
 * cousin - cusŷn
 * brother - bruder
 * sister - sister

Weather

 * cloud - wolge
 * cyclone - ziklone
 * fog - mist
 * heat - hīt
 * rain - regen
 * sun - zonne
 * sunny (adj.) - zonnig
 * wind - winn

Animals

 * ant - ante
 * bear - bār
 * bee - bej
 * bird - berd
 * butterfly - smederling
 * cat - catt
 * chicken - hihn
 * cow - cuha
 * deer - hirs
 * dog - hond
 * donkey - ezal
 * dove - dōwe
 * duck - ēned
 * fish - fīs
 * fox - fugs
 * goat - gejed
 * goose - gūse
 * horse - ferd
 * lion - liön
 * moth - nagtsmederling
 * mouse - majs
 * otter - ott
 * pig - swŷnn
 * rabbit - canej
 * rat - ratt
 * shark - sark
 * sheep - sīp
 * snake - snejke
 * squirrel - eikhōrninn
 * tiger - tigar
 * turtle - sildkrœde
 * wasp - wasp
 * whale - hwāl
 * wolf - wolv

Regions of Avalon

 * Attilania (Attilanian) - Attilalæn (attilanisk)
 * Eleuthea (Eleuthean) - Elutien (elutisk)
 * Gaullica (Gaullican) - Galliken (gallisk)
 * Ithaca (Ithacan) - Itaken (itakenisk)
 * Mirasia (Mirasia) - Mirazien (miraziansk)
 * Norsavia (Norsavia) - Norselæn (norsk)
 * Salom (Salomite) - Zālom (zālomitt)

Countries and nationalities

 * (Ameyalli) - Amŷlie (amŷlianer)
 * (Azuran) - Azura (azuraner)
 * (Bliederbourgish) - Blīdarburg (blīdarburger)
 * (Byzraki) - Bizrakreike (bizrak)
 * (Calaveran) - Kalavera (kalaveraner)
 * (Carreteñan) - Kartenie (kartaner)
 * (Chantecoquois) - Hēnsangereike (hēnsanges)
 * (Dibellan) - Dibella (dibellaner)
 * (Duntertonian) - Dynterland (dyntrisk)
 * (Edish) - Zuðerreike (zuðerreikes) or Eden (edisk)
 * (Elratalan) - Elredāl (elredāls)
 * (Fjallgardic) - Fjallgard (fjals)
 * (Gemurengi) - Gæmȳreike (gæms)
 * (Glarionan) - Glarjunen (glarjuner)
 * (Guimish) - Gwem (gwems)
 * (Huillimapu) - Maputskreike (maputsk)
 * (Ikanan) - Ikana (ikaner)
 * (Isibhamian) - Issibemu (issibemun)
 * (Kopiskuric) - Kōpiskyr (kōpiskyrs)
 * (Kraisaltan) - Hrŷreike (hrŷs)
 * (Llanish) - Tjanwŷn (tjans)
 * (Lúnasach) - Lūgnas (lūgnisk)
 * (Lyonessian) - Lŷndes (lŷnnisk)
 * (Meridian) - Meridien (meridiener)
 * (Nauti) - Naütilys (naüts)
 * (Navruanese) - Nawruän (nawruänisk)
 * (Nuvolosan) - Folkigland (folkigysk)
 * (Okromitsan) - Okermittsland (okermitts)
 * (Olerian) - Ulerien (uleriener)
 * (Shiroiyaman) - Skiroeyama (skiroeyamaner)
 * (Somerañan) - Zemranie (zemraner)
 * (Lauderdalan) - St. Loūterdāl (loūterdāls)
 * (Mercedian) - St. Merzedes (merzedaner)
 * (Tavornian) - Tæwūrn (tæwūrns)
 * (Vimbyrian) - Wimbrie (wimbrianer)
 * (Zuvish) - Zŵvland (zŵvisk)