Your national language

[The Kangaroo Republic]

What language(s) do people in your nation speak in their daily lives and for official business? Usually either Kangan or English
Is your nation largely monolingual? Or are people expected to know more than one language? Almost everyone speaks both Kangan and English
Which alphabet is used in writing? Usually the latin alphabet, as it has recently been replacing the Kangan alphabet.

Does your nation use a constructed language or one from the real world? Our official language is constructed

If it is not English: Can you translate something for the NSistoj?
English: "They are worked up, sir, because they are so poor, they are forced to have children simply to provide a cheap alternative to turkey at Christmas."

Kangan: "Tizaz zen'a vjureb, majør, zru koz tizaz zen'a tum pauver, tizaz zen'a krex'eri hab kintaz zømed provaed an marze' ate zu kaukun auv kraeztmørz"

Hey Reji, I've checked your conlang, and I have to say, you did an incredible job there.

[Hellenic Turkey]

Hi there!

Here in Hellenic Turkey greek and english are the official languages,then armenian(28%),georgian(24%).Turkish and arabic is only spoken by old generations.

Bye!

[Ko-oren]

Main languages are Dutch (5/17 states), English (6/17 states) and Japanese (2/17 states), a mix in the rest, and Chinese in 1/17 states. Then in the numerous colonies, it's usually one of those three main languages, and one native language.

[Aquilinia]

What language(s) do people in your nation speak in their daily lives and for official business?

The main language in everyday use in Aquilinia is German, while English is seeing a rise in business interactions. However, German remains the sole official language.

Is your nation largely monolingual? Or are people expected to know more than one language?

Knowledge of foreign languages, especially English, is common especially among the younger generation (<40 years old). The older generation is, in large parts, monolingual.

Which alphabet is used in writing?

The Latin alphabet. Although older documents use the Sütterlin script, and some few people still use it, it is no longer taught or used in current publications.

Does your nation use a constructed language or one from the real world?

Real. Including the Sütterlin script.

If it is not English: Can you translate something for the NSistoj?

English: "The cake is a lie!"
German: "Der Kuchen ist eine Lüge!"

Eng: "Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." (Sir Winston Churchill)

Ger: "Viele Regierungsformen wurden und werden in dieser Welt voll Sünde und Leid ausprobiert. Niemand behauptet dass Demokratie perfekt oder allwissend ist. Ja, es wurde schon gesagt, dass Demokratie die schlechteste Regierungsform ist, abgesehen von all den anderen Formen die von Zeit zu Zeit ausprobiert wurden."

Eng: "Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men."
Ger: "Regeln existieren, damit Narren ihnen gehorchen und die Weisen sich von ihnen leiten lassen."

[Zonolia]

What language(s) do people in your nation speak in their daily lives and for official business?
English

Is your nation largely monolingual? Or are people expected to know more than one language?
Zonolian citizens by law must know English and Modern Zonolian, most Zonolians know Diluted Zonolian also known as Zonolian Slang

Which alphabet is used in writing?
In English the English Alphabet is used, in Zonolian the Carpathian Alphabet OR English (More Common) is used

Does your nation use a constructed language or one from the real world?
English (RL), Zonolian (I created)

If it is not English: Can you translate something for the NSistoj?
Zouehnly ehyous touey beyouhst ehnouts ehyouvr!

Zonolia is the best nation ever!

[Sartovia]

What language(s) do people in your nation speak in their daily lives and for official business?
The people speak Sartovian (lingá Szártóu)

Is your nation largely monolingual? Or are people expected to know more than one language?
Most are monolingual, but people in important positions are expected to know at least three other languages.

Which alphabet is used in writing?
The Hungarian version of the Latin alphabet

Does your nation use a constructed language or one from the real world?
It's a conlang, a Romance language with a strong Hungarian substratum. It's still very much a work in progress.

If it is not English: Can you translate something for the NSistoj?
"All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong?"

Tötá já hintá szoljá, d'öndé provőnt tötő dá? Tötá já hintá szoljá, öndé eál tötő taroszőnt?

[Puerto Hispania]

What language(s) do people in your nation speak in their daily lives and for official business?
Spanish is the main language spoken in Puerto Hispania

Is your nation largely monolingual? Or are people expected to know more than one language?
While Spanish is the main language spoken in Puerto Hispania almost everyone knows English and many know third languages as well (most speak English fairly fluently and many know third languages as a foreign language).

Which alphabet is used in writing?
We use the Spanish alphabet, which includes the letters ñ and the double l (ll)

Does your nation use a constructed language or one from the real world?
It is a real world language.

If it is not English: Can you translate something for the NSistoj?
Welcome to Puerto Hispania.
Bienvenidos a Puerto Hispania.

[Lexembourg]

What language(s) do people in your nation speak in their daily lives and for official business?
The official language of the Grand Duchy of Lexembourg is French. All Government business is conducted in French and it is the everyday language of public and private life.

Is your nation largely monolingual? Or are people expected to know more than one language?
Lexembourg Proper is largely monolingual. The population of Calais - an exclave of Lexembourg - tend to speak French and English with equal fluency. All Lexembourgian children are taught English in school from the age of seven.

Which alphabet is used in writing?
The Latin alphabet is used for writing the French language.

Does your nation use a constructed language or one from the real world?
French is a real-world language.

If it is not English: Can you translate something for the NSistoj?
French: "Les Hautes Parties contractantes reconnaissent à toute personne relevant de leur juridiction les droits et libertés définis au titre I de la présente Convention."

English: "The High Contracting Parties shall secure for everyone within their jurisdiction the rights and freedoms defined in section I of this Convention."

(Article 1 of the European Convention on European Rights)

[St Stephan]

What language(s) do people in your nation speak in their daily lives and for official business?

The language they mainly speak is Stephanese German and Esperanto. But learning English and Latin is compulsory.


Is your nation largely monolingual? Or are people expected to know more than one language?

It is in fact bi- to tri-lingual. Besides the two main languages, English is actively taught in school.


Which alphabet is used in writing?

The Latin alphabet, as well as any (antiquated) German and Esperanto additional letters.


Does your nation use a constructed language or one from the real world?

Esperanto is a "constructed international language" worked out by a single Polish linguist, Leyzer Leyvi Zamengov (1859-1917), in 1887. It was composed from Latin, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Yiddish and German. Until now, few countries apart from St Stephan have permanently adopted Esperanto as an official, let alone primary language.

Stephanese German is a German dialect that originated mainly from High Middle German, Bavarian German, Lorraine Franconian, Dutch German as well as Platt-German, which was introduced in the Stephanese territories in the high middle ages in the form of flying merchants of the Hanseatic League as well as from settlers and refugees, who had fled the German and northern romanic territories of the Holy Roman Empire.


If it is not English: Can you translate something for the NSistoj?

In Esperanto:
"Esperanto (origine Lingvo Internacia) estas la plej disvastigita internacia planlingvo. La nomo venas de la kaŝnomo "Dr. Esperanto", sub kiu la hebrea kuracisto Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhofo en la jaro 1887 publikigis la bazon de la lingvo. Li intencis krei facile lerneblan neŭtralan lingvon, taŭgan por uzo en la internacia komunikado, tamen ne anstataŭigi aliajn, naciajn lingvojn.
Kvankam neniu ŝtato akceptis Esperanton kiel oficialan lingvon, ĝi estas uzata de internacia komuno, nombranta laŭ diversaj taksoj cent mil ĝis du milionoj da parolantoj."

"Esperanto (originally: The International language) is the most widely spread constructed international language. The name came from the Hebraic doctor "Dr. Esperanto", aka Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof, who publicised the basic language in 1887. He intended to create a teachable neutral language, which should be suited for international communication, which however was not compatible with individual original languages.
Although it was never recognized as a language, the international community of speaker had increased about from a hundred thousand to two million."

And now in Stephanese German:

"Stephansches Dîtsch, (Esperanten: Stephana germanlingva) ist eyne dîtsche Gebytssprog, de voralm im Grozfüerstenreik St. Stephan gsprogt werd. De stamte van nordeiropischen Hökern (och van Hökern van den olden Handlstrahsn gen Vênizien un Genua, weyl de Küestn am Wech glicht ham) un voralm Reysern, de ohsem hîligen dîtschen Reik os Boyern, Frankhen, Helvetyen un dam hiutegem Östreik gen Zuiden zo der Waszerkant von dam Maarsee fleyhtn.
Of dem reiken Land wurdne ahnige Acker gbût un gesaatd. Spaader worn och Lebhiuser un aan Kloster gbût, un an hîligen Stephan eyne Kierkh gweyht. De Stad van St Stephan wurd 1350 van benediktinschen Munichen erestns schriblich gnant, aba des Füerstenreik erest 1590."

"Stephanese German (In Esperanto: Stephana germanlingva) is a German dialect, that is mainly spoken in the Grand Duchy of St Stephan. It originated from North European merchants (i.e. merchants from the historical trade routes to Venice and Genoa, as the coasts bordered their trade routes)" and especially from settlers, who fled the Holy Roman Empire - from Bavaria, Franconia, Helvetia and modern-day Austria - down south, all the way to the mediterranean coastal region.
Some of the fruitful ground was cultivated not long after. Later, also living houses and a monastery were constructed, as well as a church sanctified in the name of Saint Stephen the protomartyr. The town of St Stephan was firstly documented in the year 1350 by Benedictine monks, although the Duchy itself only in 1590."

[Fashiontopia]

English...

[Angrivantis]

Most Angrivantians speak Swahili, Spanish, and an Angrivantian dialect of Arabic based upon Libyan Arabic.

[Sarcophilys]

The language is called Vulgar, and is a mixture of Latin and English words...

Laecuna wood vultus amoi tis

[Shnercropolis]

Shnerrish.

Vennas baj ki wertloppsa-io Shnerrish as kovict'd O Shnercropolis.

[Sinzhalt]

What language(s) do people in your nation speak in their daily lives and for official business?
Alemannic German (Upper Rhine Variant, called "Alemann," "Alemannisch," or "Alemannic") but with some minor modern English and Latin influences at times evolving in a sort of slang manner. This explains the proliferation of Latin and Latin-based place and personal names, English loanwords, and the slow adoption of English sentence structure.

Is your nation largely monolingual? Or are people expected to know more than one language?
More or less so, though speaking English is considered "trendy" in some groups. People are expected to know, at the very least, German.

Which alphabet is used in writing?
German alphabet/extended Latin.

Does your nation use a constructed language or one from the real world?
Real world.

If it is not English: Can you translate something for the NSistoj?
English:

Hello, how are you today? Isn't the weather lovely? It's a shame we all have to work inside, like pigs in cages. Oh well, I can't complain - it pays for the mortgage. And the new car. I'm not a Marxist, so I don't wish to run around and bugger some sheep instead.

German:

Hallo, wie geht es Ihnen heute? Ist das nicht das Wetter schön? Es ist eine Schande müssen wir alle in Arbeit, wie Schweine in Käfigen. Na ja, ich kann mich nicht beklagen - es lohnt sich für die Hypothek. Und das neue Auto. Ich bin kein Marxist, so will ich nicht herumlaufen und buggen ein paar Schafe statt.

Marxism is often the butt of many-a-joke after a failed farm revolt decades ago, though the people here don't really discriminate on ideological grounds.

[Morlago]

What language(s) do people in your nation speak in their daily lives and for official business?
There are four official languages in Morlago: English, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and Morlagoan. The spread of the popularity of each of the languages is as follows:
English - used throughout the country but has high status in the southern states and Maldrean and Ageleian Islands
Mandarin Chinese - Andusoan and Ageleian Islands, the Garden Islands and various communities along the western coast
Spanish - Siverian and Chiyorian Islands and the western coast
Morlagoan - used throughout the country but extensively so in the central plains, eastern coast and the northern mountains

Minor dialects are also spoken in different areas.

Is your nation largely monolingual? Or are people expected to know more than one language?
All four languages are taught in the early years of schooling, but at most two can be dropped in the later stages. La Diploma d'Educasiòn Secundaria Avanzata (similar to the IB) requires that students obtain a pass in at least two of the official languages.

Which alphabet is used in writing?
Previously, the Latin alphabet and Morlagoan Script were both used, and people are expected to be able to read and write both, but following the Linguistic Reform of 2011, the Morlagoan Script will no longer be taught in schools and is to be gradually phased out of usage.

Does your nation use a constructed language or one from the real world?
Both. Morlagoan is a Romance language, descended from Latin and therefore similar to Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French, but also some from Old Morlagoan, an a priori conlang. Pronunciation-wise, Morlagoan is a mix of Italian and Spanish. Vocabulary-wise, Morlagoan is closer to Spanish/Portuguese as both have a bit of English influence. Genders are used, verb conjugations are used, diacritics are used etc.

Some common irregular verbs (infinitive - English - full conjugation of present tense):
sere - to be - sou, erèi, è, somo, sette, son
pozere - to be able to - pozòu, pozèi, pozè, pozomo, pozete, pozèn
vòilere - to want - vulòu, vulèi, vulè, vulemo, vulete, vulèn
dizere - to say - dizòu, dizèi, dizè, dizemo, dizete, dizèn
habere - to have - hou, hai, ha, hemo, hete, han
spere - to know - spou, spei, spe, spemo, spete, spen
ire - to go - vou, vai, va, vamo, vate, van
fazere - to do/make/act - fou/fazòu, fai/fazèi, fa/fazè, famo/fazemo, fate/fazete, fan/fazèn

If it is not English: Can you translate something for the NSistoj?
Mandarin Chinese and Spanish are both RL languages, so that can be found on the Internet.

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Morlagoan:
Tottr'humanu nascatran libri i eguàis en dignità e potrì. Son datu rasòn e mentecorre e deben fazerse con un spìrito de fraternità.

(All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.)

Quote of Abraham Lincoln in Morlagoan:
Un àmico è uno (homre) que ha lu edenu inàmicu que (tu) hai* / voi ha*.

(A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have)
*Tu is the informal form of you. Voi is more formal and polite.

[Tekcirb]

English AND
Chinese

[Kleomentia]

Our national language is Serbian but another official language is Russian. Also almost 95% of the population have been thought to know English. Also a good percent of the populace knows Greek,Slovakian and German as languages from high school.

[Sawia]

German.

[New Lyrane]

What language(s) do people in your nation speak in their daily lives and for official business?
Rireinutire, or Lyranian, is the official language and the language used for everyday purposes.

Is your nation largely monolingual? Or are people expected to know more than one language?
Monolingual. Our planet has been a single nation for about 500 years, so all the other languages have only antiquarian interest. They are taught in university for students of history sciences. Galactic languages are only taught right here, at the Speaking-to-Animals Department, University of Haru.

Which alphabet is used in writing? The Lyranian syllabary.

Does your nation use a constructed language or one from the real world?
Are you suggesting my planet isn't real? Obviously, a constructed language.

If it is not English: Can you translate something for the NSistoj?
A sample phrase:
I can eat ground glass. It does not harm me [I believe].
Ma rimumeserona nomata hopokava. Sa mana vuyutakasevo.

ma rimu-mesero-na noma-ta hopo-ka-va
I glass-powder-PART eat-INF be-able-PRES-SENSORY

sa ma-na vuyuta-ka-se-vo
it me-PART harm-PRES-NEG-INFERENTIAL

[Prometheos]

French & English.

[Wazkyraque]

Wazkai.

[Apollonesia]

Greek.

[American Island]

Officially English but we are looking to add German, for about 75% of the population speak German and English.

[Pennswoods and York]

English and Dutch are the two main languages of the UK as given equal status by the Secretary of State.

[New Neoria]

English,Spanish and French