Ostlandic language

The Ostlandic or Ost (in Ostlandic: Ostsk sprek) is the official language of Ostland a Minoritarian language on Norway. It is a Germanic - Nordic language with English and German influence.

Prehistory (1160 - 1200)
The Ostlandic began to form from 1404 properly, but before that, a group of Indo-Europeans arrived on the Island and together with the Natives of the Island, a nordic dialect of the Proto-Indoeuropean language was created.

Low Ostlandic (1200 - 1700)
From 1198, the first Norwegian explorers arrived on the Island and with it, the Latin Alfabero and the Norwegian Language, from which the Ost would derive. Two years later, more explorers arrived from Norway, followed by a group of conquerors, who ended up making the Islands of Ost a Norwegian colony.

The Indo-European dialect that had settled on the island was preserved by the residents for almost a century, but before the imposition of schools in Norwegian and the Viking pressure, they made the Natives and Residents begin to try to speak the Norwegian, but it resulted in a kind of mixed dialect. Due to this, the Norwegians declared that the Dialect of the Islands of Ost, would be an official Norwegian dialect, and this Declaration lasted until the Independence of the Ost Islands of Finland and therefore, the Unification of Ost as a language.

Modern Ost (1710 - present)
The Ostlancid Language we know so far has been almost the same since 1810, since that date very few "evolutions" and grammatical changes have been made, but the most notorious occurred in the mid-1980s when a group of Russian Soviets arrived with the end of that Ostland would be part of the Soviet Union, an objective that would not be achieved, but if a few loans and Slavic influences were achieved in the Ost language.

Dictionary

 * Main Article: Ostlandic language: Dictionary

The Ostlandic is a language still in development. Until now it has been possible to advance a little in the grammar and the basics, which are Here.

Ostlandic grammar
Grammar in the Ost language is the same as in the Norwegian language. When the Academy of the Ostlandic language made the Written form of the language (Days after of his foundation, in 1831), it used the Norwegian grammar as a base and in the final product, no changes were made, making the Ost and Norwegian really mutually intelligible.

In the beginning, the Academy of the Ostlandic language developed a written form of what they called Low Ostlandic. This was termed as an earlier phase of the language, but was later "promoted" to Dialect, because it was shown that the Ostlandic spoken in Mellerfield was already given by extinct Low Ost.

The English contributions to the language are mainly of Terms and Demonyms, because during the ''Period of the Brittish Protectorate of Ostland. ''In recent years, the influence of English has increased thanks to globalization, music in English and passenger and tourist traffic between Ostland and the United Kingdom.

Ostlandic Alphabet
The Alphabet used in the Ost Language is a variation of the Latin Alphabet. The letters are the same as in the Basic Latin Alphabet, with the exception that the vowels have diacritic accents to be used in special cases."A / Ä B C D F G H I J K L M N O / ØP Q R S T U V W X Y Z"

Diacritic letters

 * Ä: The sound of this letter is like the expresion Oh (betwen O and A). It is the Ostlandic representation for the Scandinavian letter Å, which was removed in the language reforms made by the Ostlandic Language Academy in March 1700.To unify the spellings of Low and Modern Ostlandic, this letter also replaces Å in Low Ostlandic. It is as a Modification of the letter A.
 * Ø: It is an O with a shorter sound and a little more inhaled. In Low Ostlandic he is represented as a Ō (O with macron diacritic)