Zyraki, the language of Zyrak

Zyraki (endonym: Zyreakian or zyreakian delsea) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Chyrak any by ethnic Zyrakians outside of Zyrak. Zyraki is the official language of Zyrak. There are minorities speaking Zyraki in Volkstonia as a minority language. Those are called the Portilanians.

Zyraki is typologically agglunative and uses almost exclusively suffixal affixation. Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs are inflected depending on their role in the sentence. Sentences are normally formed with subject-verb-object word order, although the extensive use of inflection allows them to be ordered differently. Word order variations are often reserved for differences in information structure. Zyrakian ortography uses a Latin-script alphabet, and is is phonetic to a great extent. Vowel lenght and consonant lenght are distinguished, and there are a range of diphtongs, although vowel harmony limits which diphtongs are possible.

Classification

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Zyraki is a member of the Finnic group of the Uralic family of languages. It is also associated with the Baishinic language group (stated by Moukden and Kirin). Zyraki is classified as a level IV language in terms of difficulty for native English speakers.

Geographical distribution

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Zyraki is spoken by about 18 million people, most of whom reside in Zyrak. There is a noteable Zyraki-speaking minority in Volkstonia and most of the northern border to Ishiski.

Official status

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Today, Zyraki is the official language of Zyrak. Before the Unification of Chyrak and Aika, it was also considered as an minority language in Aika.

In 2027, it was also declared as an minority language in Volkstonia.

History

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Prehistory

The Uralic family of languages, of which Zyraki is a member, are hypothesized to derive from a single ancestor language spoken in the former country of Sámi. Over the time Sámi ceased to exist and the next country Scandia, split the language into two daughter languages. One of these descendants is Zyraki.

Independence

In the year 883 CE after getting independence from Scandia during the Baishin Invasion, Zyraki was officially declared as the official language of Zyrak. Meanwhile Aikan being the official language of Aika.

Modernization

WIP

Basic greetings and phrases (get ready for some LOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGGG words and tounge twisters)

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Zyraki	Translation	Notes
Gödeen tuög!	Good day!
Gödeen huomöörgän!	Good morning!
Gödeen hävääning!	Good evening!
Gödeen nöt!	Good night!
Terve	lit. Healthy
Heij/Beij	Hi!/Bye!	Heij is used for Hi, Beij is used for Bye
Tutto samskatseen lateeri de tuögistan	See you later!	lit. You're gonna see me later!
Käärija	Goodbye!	to NOT be confused with Käärijä (Nice to meet you!)
Käärijan	Goodbye/Farewell
Käärijä	Nice to meet you!	to NOT be confused with Käärija (Goodbye!)
Tutto sameeri?	How are you?
Me en göd	I'm fine/I'm good
Tervetuloa!	Welcome!

Now to the phrases:

Zyraki	Translation	Notes
Äntääksi	Excuse me
Kiitoa	Thanks!/Please
Kiitoa, häämoinsetäässtä	Thank you, likewise
Tutto semä göd	You're welcome
Jua	Certainly/yes
Juuä	Yeah
Äi	No/it is not
Tutto helpäästkan pur me?	Can you help?/can you help me?
Helpää!	Help!
Tuki!	Certainly!
Gödä anää	Good luck/congratulations
Me soriisiin	I'm sorry
Odotaka	Wait
Hetkinen	One moment
Me en ruoska	My condolences
Me üdrastuokäniöstrakastra	I understand
Me äin üdrastuokäniöstrakastra	I don't understand
Zyreaika	Zyrak
Zyreakiani	Zyraki (language)
Zyreakia	Zyraki (noun)