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The Borgian language is a North Germanic language that evolved from East Norse. Only 379,553 people are native speakers, thanks to the island's small population. Regardless, the language is a very unique, challenging language that many people enjoy. When settlers from Norse regions settled the island in 456, they primarily spoke Old Norse and East Norse. Over a period of time, the language evolved into Borgian. This factbook is a language guide to help English speakers learn Borgian. Injíí!

The orthography, or written language, uses the standard Latin alphabet, with six extra characters. These extra characters are, Ø, Å, Ä, Ö, Í, and Ü. Ergo, the language has 32 letters.

The sentence structure of the language isn't always straightforward, and the language has some interesting rules one must follow when writing a sentence. Below are a few examples of these rules, as writing a full list of them would be exhausting.

In some sentences, the verb come at the very end of the sentence. However, this only happens when the verb ends in "en" or "an." Another thing to keep in mind is that with some verbs, this may only apply to the conjugated form. "Hasse" would come towards the beginning of the sentence, while the conjugated form "hassen" would come at the end.

For instance, Olaf has a bicycle is "Olaf Fahrødder Hassen." Note how the word for has comes at the end of the sentence.

The word "the" doesn't exist in the Borgian language. Rather, the word the is added as a "en", "on", or "an" at the end of the sentence. This makes the Borgian language similar to the Swedish language, which shares this rule. An example of this rule is below,

"Vörg" is wolf.
"Vörgen" is the wolf.
"Pojell" is boy.
"Pojellan" is the boy.

This rule isn't without exceptions, as words that end in "en" or "an", add a "ar" or "er" to denote that one is referring to "the something."

Adverbs always come at the beginning of a sentence. And, this rule has no exceptions. Historians are unsure as to why this developed, and this rule confuses foreigners frequently. A few examples are below.

"Schletzig vaaten en Mjølk" is "I want milk badly."

"Fützten raadir mein Fahrødder" is "I ride my bike quickly."

The simplest and most important rule is the following. Never, under any circumstances, write a sentence without capitalizing a noun! This is the single most important rule of the language. An example is below.

"Jog åten mein Smorgot" is "I eat my sandwich." As you can see, the noun "sandwich" is capitalized.

The verb conjugations in the present tense are relatively simple, and are listed below. Of course, there are verb conjugations for the future and past tense, but these are not listed. The examples below use a example verb "renni".

Jog(I): Renní
Vuu(You): Rennit
Hat, Han(He,She): Rennin
Vi(We):Rennitin
Vin(They): Renn