Ostlandic language

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

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)
There are hints and scripts that confirm about the existence of the "Ostlandic" language from 1400 decade, approximately. Before that, there was not enough difference between Norwegian and germanic dialects spoken in Ostland. The Ostlandic

Old Ostlandic (1200 - 1700)
The Ostlandic language started its formation since the 46th century B.C., after the discovery of the Ostlandic Islands. It was a dialect of Old West Scandinavian language and evolved closely to Norwegian language. The Ostlandic language was better known for having a 'rough pronunciation of the consonants.

The Ostlandic Islands were important for Norwegian - Danish Empires, but due the distance between the Mainland, the language evolved to a different way, that marked significant differences from the rest of the Scandinavian language. The Ostlandic language also was influenced by the Nordic languages of Northern England and Scotland.

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.