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Lentish
Lętvīşu
[lɛ̃tvi:ʃɯ]
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 5 February 2023
Language type Mixed
Place & SpeakersLentish is spoken by a population of 4,560,600 in Lętingrad.
Species Human/humanoid
About Lentish Lentish (Len: Lętvīşu) is the language spoken in the separatist nation of Lętingrad in an alternate reality. It is a language with a long history, having been spoken in Lętingrad and neighbouring parts of the Soviet Union for at least 1,100 years. Currently, it is mainly spoken only in Lętingrad and by a few ex-pats in Western Europe. A small colony was established in Swedenmark in the late 1940's, but by 1975, they had left to rejoin the rest of the Lentish in the Great Uprising. Lentish writer and political activist Kienas Lutēgas said of the language:
It must be preserved. The mother tongue of a nation, of a people, is their guiding principle. To quake and cower at the tyranny of the Union and begin to speak Unified Russian is to deny our heritage and our right to exist as our own people.


Although Lentish has noun cases, they do not apply to pronouns or proper nouns. You (sg) would be şu regardless of whether it is nominative, accusative or other such case. Cases only apply to regular nouns.
Sample of Lentish[view] Odkāltezok lēnas sęļugūşi pļuvaņi ąs nē dredzīşīģant zakzelsan.

There is always someone crying on the edge of darkness.
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Latest vocabulary
kęşugaadjwhole
kęşugaadjentire
zerīadpacross
Sound samples in Lentish
Some sound samples of Lentish. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Nīz, nīz. Şu nenovālāk Zatras. Şu novālāk Zatras. Nīz, talā nenolēn Zatras, TALĀ nolēn Zatras... Zat...
No, no. You did not meet Zathras. You met Zathras. No, that was not Zathras, that was Zathras... Zat...
Odkāltezok lēnas sęļugūşi pļuvaņi ąs nē dredzīşīģant zakzelsan.
There is always someone crying on the edge of darkness.
Ņūki ƭikot bezi şu lēnas kveņ kōşustvīs. Kens dostienzokna detrībąta kens kōpatzintan kiş kens morƭą...
One minute without you is far too long. Like my breath leaving my body on my dying day, I only suffo...
Ke lēnas ķarānt. Ke lēnas... martint!
I am fire. I am... death!
Ņep odbrīvik pervus lēnas sur ƭąks dorseƙbrīvintan, ķet ƭą akruģa?
If there's something strange in your neighbourhood, who are you gonna call?
Ke ļutiş Lętvīşunt
I speak English
Language family relationships
Language treeBaltic
 ⤷ Proto-Baltic
  ⤷ East Baltic
   ⤷  Lentish
 
Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialLabio-
dental
AlveolarPost-
Alveolar
PalatalVelarGlottal
Nasal m   n   ɲ    
Plosive p b   t d   c ɟ k g  
Fricative   v s z ʃ ʒ     h
Affricate     d͡z        
Lateral approximant     l        
Approximant     ɹ        
Blends g͡z k͡s t͡s l͡jʲ
VowelsFrontNear-
front
Back
Close i:   ɯ u:
Near-close   ɪ ɪ̃  
Close-mid     o:
Open-mid ɛ ɛ: ɛ̃   ɔ
Open a a:   ɑ̃
Stress informationStress in Lentish depends on the word. Long vowels usually indicate stress, i.e. any syllable containing a long vowel is stressed. (for example: valā - /va.'la:/). Multi-syllabic words without a long vowel are always stressed on the penultimate syllable (for example: kalsentante - /kal.sɛn.'tan.tɛ/)
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Lentish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 LentishOrthography [edit]
Aa/a/Āā/a:/Ąą/ɑ̃/Bb/b/Dd/d/Ee/ɛ/Ēē/ɛ:/Ęę/ɛ̃/Ǧǧ/g͡z/
Gg/g/Hh/h/Ii/ɪ/Īī/i:/Įį/ɪ̃/Kk/k/Ll/l/Mm/m/Nn/n/
Oo/ɔ/Ōō/o:/Pp/p/Rr/ɹ/Ss/s/Tt/t/Ūū/u:/Uu/ɯ/Vv/v/
Zz/z/Ģģ/ɟ/Ķķ/c/Ƙƙ/k͡s/Ļļ/l͡jʲ/Ņņ/ɲ/Şş/ʃ/Ƭƭ/t͡s/Ȥȥ/ʒ/
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