What is you're nations language structure/alphabet?

[New Jord]

I am working on my own language and dialects in my nation. I get the most help by seeing some examples of other nations.
Just curious on what yours is and what you did to make them. =)

[Auzkhia]

Most languages use the Latin alphabet and can vary in structure. We have Germanic, Uralic (Hungarian), Slavic and Romance languages.
Some, like Serbian and Ukrainian, use the Cyrillic alphabet.
Arabic and Chinese scripts are used in some of the overseas territories.

[The Equestrian Language]

(I'm just going to post OOCly here.)

Equestrian is supposed to have its own unique script, but it seems to have been lost with the disappearance of YellowApple. In the meantime, I use a Latin script without the letters "b", "x", and "y", with "c", "l", "r" and "z", and "q" only appearing in specific and unique combinations (namely, "tch", "ll", "rr", "tz", and "qu"), "v" and "vj" only in specific dialect variations and words, "dj", "fj" "gh", "sh", "th", and "tn" are also distinct letter combinations designating a specific sound, and vowels get various diacritics (or otherwise have specific double-vowel combinations) to clearly mark a specific pronunciation. I also use the character "æ" in most cases unless it is inconvenient (in fact most of the time on NS this becomes an "ae"), or at least, before I figured out how to use the Unicode shortcuts.

I've also been thinking about using some Cyrillic characters to replace some of the digraphs, but ordinary keyboards can't write them easily.

[Themiclesia]

Well, my nation's native language is an insanely old one, Pulian, whose linguistic structure, as well as affinity, are yet to be determined.

I'm also working on a constructed language within the Germanic family. To give myself lots of leeway (and freedom from criticism from modern speakers of Germanic languages), I've set the date of attestation of this language to 700 B.C. This language uses the Hellenic alphabet initially, though using the Latin alphabet is also possible, given the pre-dominant equivalences in the alphabet, both in phonology and in etymology. The digamma is used to denote /w/.

[Sotubigal]

Sotubig Hieroglyphics. Each letter is a certain god in their polytheistic religion.

[Nocturnalis]

The New Noctish script is largely a mix of Latin and Cyrillic characters; Old Noctish has its own, unique alphabetical structure that is far removed from anything Terran.

OOC: I tend to transliterate text into just pure Latin alphabet for the sake of ease. Also, I've yet to create an actual language beyond a few phrases.

[Luziyca]

Varies, but all use the Latin alphabet.

[Tolmakia]

We use the latin alphabet (for English). The Tolmakian alphabet is similar except it doesn't use latin words (example: F looks like I and S looks like 3). Letters also change like "C" becomes "Ch".

[Klemantan-Borneo]

Normal Latin Alphabets + Umlauts which are:-

Ä
Pronunciation: ae

Ö
Pronunciation: oe

Ü
Pronunciation: ue

ß
Pronunciation: eszett

[Morthyria]

Most of the population speak Turkmen (real language different from Turkish) for the most part a latin script based on the Turkish alphabet with some difference is used but it can also be written in Arabic where the language is used and Arabic is dominant.

[Nueva Uruguay]

We speak Spanish and Russian, which use the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, respectively. Close to the border between the Spanish-speaking and Russian-speaking halves of the Republic, you will see some mix-up of the languages, such as Spanish written in the Cyrillic alphabet.

[Papait]

Various languages are spoken through papait.
Pashto, turkish, arabic, Punjabi, Parsi, Kurdish, as well as Spanish, papiamento and dutch in the colonies

French and Papaian are the official languages though, and are spoken by most people either as first or second language
While Papaian is dominant in most big cities, many small towns as well as the general government use French for official business.
Many diffrent provinces usually offer the provincial dominant language too on official forms and such
meaning that official documents are often written in French, Papaian and the local dominant language

[Ahvulon]

Ahvulian uses the Latin alphabet. The language has basically the same grammar as English, with the exceptions that it doesn't have an equivalent to English's apostrophes, it tends to place prepositional phrases earlier in sentences than English does, and it doesn't have tense. To make a word plural, two letters are added to the end of the word, the first being the last letter in the singular form, and the second being an "e".

[Saurisisia]

Latin is the most prevalent though most of the various subcultures and races have their own scripts. For instance, the Mesozoicans use Greek alphabet, the Khalkans utilize a script similar to Arabic, the Dwarves use Runes, and the Drakònians use an alphabet akin to Cuneiform if it was carved into the stone with claws.

[Anollasia]

Our national languages are English, Turkish, and Anollasian, which all use variations of the Latin alphabet.

[East Repania]

We used to use the Classical Repanian Alphabet, but due to Russian influence during the late 1800s, we switched the the Cyrillic alphabet. We still have the same spoken language, but the writing system is different.

Example:

English: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog

Cyrillic Repanian: Нш Аг Оцйш Эг Хглш эйү ийу аг лйи агү ыхйи туйи.

[Scow Creek]

I think your question ("language structure") requests us to go a little beyond alphabet, so I will break this into alphabet, pronunciation, and grammar:

Alphabet

For the most part, our Alphabet uses 22 Letters, most of which are standard Latin; where necessary, I have added English-style pronunciation in parentheses next to the letter:

A B D E F G (always hard) I J (pronounced Zh) L M N O P Q R S Ø ("Chay") Š ("Hashek) Þ ("Thorn") T U V

Pronunciation

Vowels are always pronounced American-English-Long, unless there is an accent above them, making them American-English-Short (such as á, é, í, ó, and ú.) So, our word for "Boot" is Ótlo, pronounced "Aht-low."

Consonants that are followed by an apostrophe, are followed by a slight "Y" sound (as in "Ye"). Apple = P'beá, pronounced "Pye-BEE-a"

If a word begins with an apostrophe (VERY rare), it indicates a subtle "h" sound, and signifies a Proper Noun transliterated from another language; Holland, for instance, could be Transliterated as 'Ólánd , or completely translated into Ob'andro.

Basic Grammer Rules

(1) There are only three tenses: Past, Present, and Future. Past is indicated by the word "dan" prior to the verb (no direct English translation for this word), and Future is indicated by the word b'í (which can also mean "will".)

That means that "I work" and "I am working" are *both* written as "Í rqó."

(2) Plural Subjects are made simply by adding an "s;" therefore,

I = Í , and We = Ís
You singular = Uó, and You plural = Uós
He = Ero, and They (male) = Eros.

(3) Possessive s ndicated by adding an "n" to the end of the Subject; therefore

The Boy = Olo
The Boys (plural) = Olos
The Boy's (single possessive) - Olon
The Boys' (plural possessive) = Olosn

(4) As you might have suspected from #3 above, there are no definite or indefinite articles ("a" or "the"). To say, "A book is on the table," one actually says, "Book is on Table."

(5) There are no irregular verbs, and no verb conjugation.

I am = Í má
She is = EÞu má

The Dog runs = Ojde unro
The Dogs run = Ojdes unro

Hope that helps!

[Serzchepha]

Sergovard is a Subject-Verb-Object language that uses the Latin alphabet with several diacritics.

Standard Sergovard (Serjipuhë Muajig) is the version of the language used in business and the government. It is based off of the two major dialects, Komjë and Skirälik, slightly favoring Komjë. All the dialects are mutually intelligible to some degree, but someone from the far north will have difficulty understanding someone from the far south.


English: “I honor the name of my mother.”
Standard Dialect: “Ghjëot ärm uj Mhër mo.”
Komjë Dialect: “Ghjëot ärm ooj Mhëra mo.”
Skirälik Dialect: “Ghyet ërm uj Mhër mat.”

[Yulis]

http://www.nationstates.net/nation=yuli ... /id=259340

[Orveleca]

There was a giant gap here that I couldn't remove, so here's a link to the factbook.

http://www.nationstates.net/nation=orve ... /id=296125

[Unified Arab Sheikhdoms]

Arabic.

[The Celestial Realms]

The alphabet I'm creating for my nation is a phonetic one. Each letter represents a specific sound, though not all sounds in english are in the language. For example, there is no "b" sound. I know what sounds the letters would represent, though I haven't quite determined what all the letters would look like yet.

[Ruhipi]

The three languages of Ruhipi are:

English, German and Ruhip.

English rarely has accents, obviously.
German has: ä, ö, ü and ß.
Ruhip has a variety of accents, but any accent other than: ā, ē, ī, ō, ū and ȳ is uncommon.

By language structure I'll cover some basics of Ruhip (I need not explain German).

The language has a V-S-O word order, for example a sentence using this in English would be:

Eat I pie.

With that in mind, sometimes the word order changes to S-V-O (like in English). This is influenced by German. Ruhip doesn't change word order with clauses being linked and that.

Ruhip also has a few cases, but really the only ones that are used are Nominative and Genitive. Dative/Accusative and that are never used in Ruhip except for extra words for 'me' and such. However words are added on as suffixes to mean something else.

Obōdi = home (taken from the English 'abode').
Obōdipā = a home.
Obōdikā = the home.
Obōdipām = (of) a home.
Obōdikālū = (of) the home.
Obōdiī = homes.

The ī is inserted in to mean plurals. But an example of words being joined on to mean something else:

Near the home: Obōdikānāu (genitive: Obōdikālūnālū).

An example of the verb to be (yī):

I am. Yē’imī (Yēa limī).
You are. Yē’imo (Yēa limo).
He/she/it is. Yē’i/Yē’o/Yē’e (Yēa li/lo/le).
We are. Yā’amī (Yāa lamī).
They are. Yā’ūmo (Yāa lūmo).
You (plural) are. Yū’ōlo (Yūa lōlo).

And to eat (rī):

I eat. Rēa limī.
You eat. Rēa limo.
He/she/it eats. Rēa li/lo/le.
We eat. Rāa lamī.
They eat. Rāa lūmo.
You (plural) eat. Rūa lōlo.

This is an example of a sentence:

Rēa limī uyūpkā ruhipīkāilūbay ȳil rāa lūmo rekikāī ēngerongkālūbay.

That translates to: “I eat the chicken from Ruhipi and they eat the fish from England.”

Ruhip has no strict rules regarding capital letters. The only time a capital letter is used is at the beginning of a sentence, however it is also correct to capitalise names and countries (like in English) or capitalise every noun (like in German).

The influence from other languages has been seen. German also influenced some days of the week and numbers, such as:

Eight: āktā.
(German: acht.)

Saturday: Samtāk.
(German: Samstag.)

The days of the week and months do have separate traditional Ruhip names but the MacKenzie Island dialect (the standard: ruhip'e'maksi) uses these. Ruhip had a basic calendar before that used the names although traditional names have been developed for the Gregorian calendar.