Ostlandic language

The Ostlandic or Ost (in Ostlandic: Ostsk sprek) is the official language of Ostland. It is a Germanic language, specifically of the branch of West Scandinavian languages, spoken by over 19 million people, around Ostland and Northern Europe.

Ostlandic language is a descendant of Old Norse language, which was spoken by Vikings when they arrived to the Ostlandic islands. It was classified as a Insular Scandinavian language along with Faroese and Icelandic. Its writing system is Latin Alphabet, introduced in 16th century.

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 as part of the Norwegian viking kingdom.

The Norwegian Vikings brought the Old Norse language to Ostland, which evolved into the modern and current Ostlandic. Although an attempt was made to match Ostlandic and Norwegian linguistically, Ostlandic could never be equated as one more dialect of Norwegian, so it continued to evolve as a separate 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.

Alphabet
The Ostlandic alphabet (Ostlandiske alfebet) was introduced around the 16th century, influenced by Swedish alphabet, originally consisting of 28 letters. Later in 1930, king Hans I of Ostland, with validation of Ostlandic Language Institute, introduced the modern Ost alphabet, It is a variation of the Latin Alphabet. After the Great Reform, majority of loan words are spelled the same as in its original languages, after being widely debated between Modern Ostlandic and Low Ostlandic supporters. For example, countries that never had a european root, like Azerbaijan can be spelled as Asherbaijan since Low Ostlandic does not uses 'Z' as an official letter.

Diacritic letters
The letters in the Ostlandic alphabet are the same as in the Basic Latin alphabet, with the exception of two letters:
 * Ä: pron. [ɔ:] or [oː] Known as Semi-Open 'A'. Is the Ostlandic representation for the Scandinavian letter Å / å, which was removed in the language reforms made by the Ostlandic Language Institute in 1928, to unify the spellings of Low and Modern Ostlandic. It sound can be compared with the English expresion Oh.
 * Ø: It is an O with a shorter sound and a little more inhaled. In Low Ostlandic it is represented as a Ō (O with macron diacritic)

Former

 * Æ: Known officially as 'Open surounded E' by Language Institute, it was used since 16th century to 1930. In 1918, Language Institute considered it unnecessary and "not widely used anymore", and propossed it be converted into a simple textual combination of vowels 'A' and 'E'. The council of Low Ostlandic spelling (Bhabierspreghe Ostlandisghe) refused these reforms. Later, it was royal-approved by the King Hans I in 1930 with the Great Reform of the language.