Austronian

Classification and Dialects
The Austronian language is the only existing Eastern Germanic language nowadays. It is the official language of the Austronian Commonwealth. It is heavily influenced by its neighboring Slavic languages, namely Polish, Russian and Ukrainian, but also Old Church Slavonic. It is also the only Germanic language being written in the Cyrillic script.

Writing System
Austronian is written with the Cyrillic script. It has retained the greatest amount of letters deriving from the Early Cyrillic alphabet. The consequence of it is that Austronian has a quite etymological spelling with a lot of spelling rules and exceptions. There are some spelling and pronunciation rules that ought to be presented:

There are however other spelling inconsistencies that do not follow any of the previously mentioned rules, e.g.: мегъ /mjaj/, егъ /jaj/, дегъ /dzjaj/, сьëвнъ /sjɔwn/, etc. These have to be learnt by heart with their corresponding pronunciation.
 * The letter В is pronounced as /w/ in final position or if followed by a consonant, e.g.: лiв л ясъ /liw ʎ as/, соровъ /sarɔw/
 * The letter Г is pronounced /ç/ as palatalized version of the phoneme /h/, e.g.: г е во /ç ɛ va/
 * If the letter E is unstressed, it gets reduced to /ji/ in a process called ikanya (iканя), e.g.: преберасъ /prjibjɛras/
 * If the letter E, stressed or unstressed, is preceded by a vowel, it changes to /jɔ/ in a process called okanya (оканя), e.g.: лек е е /ʎɛc i jɔ/
 * The letter И appears only in final position, e.g.: мари
 * The letter Л is pronounced as /w/ in final position or if followed by a consonant, e.g.: вол ф асъ /vɔw f as/
 * If the letter O is unstressed, it gets reduced to /a/ in a process called akanya (аканя), e.g.: соровъ /sarɔw/
 * A consonant letter can never end the considered morph according to Austronian spelling rules! If the word ends with a consonant, that consonant must be followed by Ъ (indicating a hard consonant) or Ь (indicating a soft consonant), e.g.: волфа с ъ /vɔwfa s /, ма р ь /ma rj /
 * The letter Ъ also stops the default palatalization of E and it also has to be noted that a de-palatalized E does not undergo the ikanya, e.g.: объ е щаня /ab ɛ ʃtʃaɲa/
 * The letter palatalized Ë does not undergo the akanya, e.g.: марë /marjɔ/
 * The letter Ѫ and its palatalized counterpart Ѭ are purely etymological and used to indicate a nasal sound that merged with the sounds /a/ and /ja/, e.g.: шеѭ /ɕɛja/
 * The letter Ѳ is also an etymological letter standing for the Greek letters theta and phi, e.g.: ѳъеорiя /fɛɔrija/, ѳѵзiка /fizika/
 * The letter Ѵ is also an etymological letter standing for the Greek letter upsilon, e.g.: ѳѵзiка /fizika/