Uistliŕyen (uistlirjøn)

Uistliŕyen is the language of the Siéŕians. It is divided between two interintelligible dialects: the Siéŕian and the Midarian. Here is the academic Uistliŕyen or literary Uistliŕyen.
As most of the languages within the subcontinent of Uistéŕand, Uistliŕyen is an imported language. When the Siérian people arrived they brought their language with them. The vocabulary was completly new on the peninsula, and had not been modified by any other language. Nowadays Uistliŕyen is used as the lingua franca within the empire and can be influenced by the origin of the speaker that uses it.

Writing System

It is not an alphabet as we can imagine it’s more of a classified system in which letters resemble one another according to their sound, (with the exception of “h” (what did you expect I’m a bit French after all)) like for exemple all the vowels are written with an oval or round shape (again except the lower cases of “e” and “é” that lost their oval). You can classify letters by their sound basically or write them like the Latin alphabet as you want.

B	V	P	F
D	Dh	T	Th	Zh	Ch
C	K	Kh	R	X
J	S	Sh	Z
L	Ŕ
M	N
H

A	Ay	Au	-
E	-	-	-
É	Éy	Éu	-
I	-	-	-
O	Oy	Ou	-
U	Ua	Ué	Uo
Ÿ	-	-	-
Y	Ya	Yo	Yu

Geographical Distribution

Uistliŕyen is spoken mainly on the subcontinent of Wisterand, as it is one of the official languages of The Empire of Wisterand. It is the principal language of the Sierians. There are also native Uistliŕyen speakers in the Zélif Kingdom, in which Uistliŕyen is also used as a second language by most inhabitant. It is spoken and/or understood in every ports in the Southern sea even though the use of the Uistliŕyen language is forbiden anywhere in the Almodh Empire.
Nowadays Uistliŕyen is the common language used in the empire, more than 75% of the population is bilingual and mostly Sierian people don't speak more than two languages.

Phonology

Consonants: There are 23consonants in Wistlirien: b/k/d/dh/f/g/h/j/kh/l/m/n/p/r/ŕ/s/sh/ch/t/th/v/z/zh
Vowels: There are 8 vowels in wistlirien: a/e/é/i/o/u/ÿ/y
Diphthongs : There are 14 diphthongs in Wistlirien: ay/éy/oy/uy/aw/éw/ow/yu/ya/ye/yé/yo/wa/wé

Morphology

Uistliŕyen is a moderately inflected language, a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, definiteness. The verbs are formed with conjugation, and one can refer to the inflection of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, determiners, participles, prepositions and postpositions, numerals, articles etc...as declension.

We don’t know Uistliŕyen mother language as the Sierians didn’t bring any records from the lands they originated. But it was likely a declined language. Only few declensions remain today, nouns and most pronouns are inflected for number although the distinction between gender is almost lost; personal pronouns and a few other pronouns, for person, number, gender, and case; and verbs, for tense, aspect, mood, and the person and number of their subjects. Case is primarily marked using word order and prepositions, while certain verb features are marked using auxiliary verbs. Adjectives are not inflected as they don’t accord neither in gender nor in number.

Phonetics

Consonants:

B	b	(b)
C	c	[k]	never
D	d	[d]
Dh	dh	[ɖ]	like if you roll your tong to produce an (l) sound but stop and produce a [d] sound in that tong position... there you go !
F	f	[f]
G	g	[g]
H	h	(h)/[ç]	aspired like in Englike but at the end of a word it is pronounced like the “ch” in the German “ich”
J	j	[ʒ]	never pronouced [dʒ] like in the English "Jack"
Kh..........	kh.......	[kʰ]	try to imagine the sounds “k” and “h” together... there you got this !
L	l
M	m	[m]
N	n	[n]
P	p
R	r	[ʁ]/(x)..........	like the French “r” or depending on the accent like in the Scottish "loch"
Ŕ	ŕ		rolled "r" like in Spanish
S	S
Sh	sh	[ʃ]
Ch	ch	[tʃ]	like in the English "church"
T	t	[t]
Th	th	[θ]	like in the English "faith"
V	v	[v]
Z	z	[z]
Zh	zh	[ð]	like "the" in English
X	x	[ks]	never [gz]

Vowels:

A	a	[a]
E	e	[ø]	rarely used it's the French "e"
É	é	[e]
I	i
O	o	[o]
U	u
Ÿ	ÿ	[y]	like the French "u"
Y	y	[j]

Diphtongs:

Ay	ay	[aj]	like "eye"
Au	au	[aʊ]	like "cow"
Éy	éy	[ej]	like "rain"
Éu	éu	[eʊ]
Ou	ou	[oʊ]	like "bow"
Oé	oé	[oe]	rarely used
Oy	oy	[oy]	like "boy"
Ua	ua	[ʊa]	like "what"
Ué	ué	[ʊe]	like "when"
Uy	uy	[ʊj]	like French "ouille" (yes I know French is so weird)
Yu	yu	[jʊ]	like "you"
Ya	ya	[ja]	like German "ja"
Yé	yé	[je]	like "yes"
Eu	eu	[øʊ]

Tenses

There are three tenses in Uistliŕyen: past, present and future. All articulated in different moods: infinitive, indicative, subjunctive, conditional, imperative and participle past and present.
Moods and tenses aspects are what might make wistlirien look like a complex language. But there are no exceptions and no irregularities (except (hahahahaha) for the verb “éstré”= to be which is the only irregular verb) and all the verbs are conjugated by isolating the stem of the verb and adding an ending.

Sentence Structure

Uistliŕyen is a SVO type of language, subject–verb–object (SVO) is a sentence structure where the subject comes first, the verb second, and the object third. Languages may be classified according to the dominant sequence of these elements in unmarked sentences (i.e., sentences in which an unusual word order is not used for emphasis). English is included in this group.
examples:
The cat ate a mouse : dhé khat édut na musé = dhé kat: S / édut = édér: V / na musé : O
I live in this house : Yé gui dén té domé = Yé: S / gui = guir: V / té domé: O

Adjective Order

In Uistliŕyen adjectives don't accord in gender nor in number, therefor they're usually placed before the noun which they're describing. Then they follow the same order as in English: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose.
examples:
That large, old, brown goat over there = té guŕé, uété, bŕéun képŕé thaŕi.
There are beautiful, great, round and square, white, Midarian, stone temples in this city = haŕét duén, gŕén, ŕéth oth kuoŕé, alvé, midaŕien, stén témélés dén té siulé.

Spoken by

• Ishian people
• the Sierian people
• the Zelif people

Common Phrases

“Mégiénam (nay) uiŕ otéŕ véy” = “May we meet (see each other) again” > formal
" Még" = short version of the above > not formal “ath néxém (véy)” = “‘till next time”, “see you”
“Héy” = “hi”
“Kaytié” = “Kayt dhié” = “good day”
“Wod éŕét (ésh) ?” = literally “how is (she) ?” > “how are you?” Formal and not formal
“Path midh dé” or “path midh ésh” = “peace (be) with you”: the formal “you” is formed with “ésh” which is the pronoun for “she”. Can be used to say hello or good bye
“miké thané” or “mikh thané” = “thank you very much”
“Skayt !” = “shit !”
“Baudé !” = “Baudé dé !” = “fuck you !”
“Gé baudéŕ (dan)swah !” = “go fuck yourself !”
“In dan hérs !” = “serves you right !” literally “in your arse !” A less vulgar form of that expression would be “in dan  dontés” = “in your teeth”

Common Female Names

Shélia,

Common Male Names

Aŕdan, Aŕdué, Markis, Natén

Common Unisex Names

Shél, Lin, Fél

Common Family Names

there're no real family name in Wistlirien, people are commonly named by their father's first name to which is added "son of" or "daughter of".
examples:
Markis Sundhanatén = Markis Son of Natén
Shélia Duytérdhafél = Shélia Daughter of Fél