Vendian

Classification and Dialects
Vendian is a Balto-Slavic language spoken in Vendia. The linguists cannot really tell, whether it should be considered as a Baltic or a Slavic language, because it is to distingued from both. At the same time, the core vocabulary is clearly from Balto-Slavic origin, e.g. jesti (=to eat) - ěsti (Proto-Slavic) - ēst (Latvian) - ėsti (Lithuanian).

Writing System
The Vendian Latin alphabet seems very Czecho-Slovak centred, because, when in the 1850's the governmenet decided to switch from the Classical Vendian alphabet (which had a monstrous amount of inconsistencies due to its archaism, which was clearly a problem for the alphabetisation program), the Vendian scholars studied Latin based writing in the Austro-Hungarian empire and decided that the Czecho-Slovak alphabet with minor adaptations would fit "perfectly" for the Vendian language.

Even if "ch", "dh" and "šj" are digraphs, they're considered as independent letters reflecting one particular sound each.

In the standard spoken language, there is no vowel lengthening. Nonetheless in certain dialects and accents, the stressed vowel may become lengthened, e.g. : jesti / 'jɛsti/ --> / 'j ɛ: sti/. In other dialects, just the stressed a, o, and i will be pronounced correctly, unstressed a mutates to /ɐ/, o to /u/ and i to /ɪ/, e.g. : /'jɛst ɪ /.

Voiced consonants in final position become devoiced, e.g. : chid (=shelter) /xit/.

Nouns
Nouns in Vendian have no gender at all, but do show different endings in the rectus singular (also called the "dictionary form"). Those endings are a relict of the gender system in Classical Vendian having disappeared progressively. The endings are : -/ ("old masculine"), -a ("old feminine"), -e ("old neuter I"), -o ("old neuter II"). Nouns may be singular, dual or plural. In Vendian, there are 5 cases : rectus, obliquus, accusative, partitive and locative. The case endings requiring the vowels "i" and "e" induce palatalization to a certain number of preceeding consonants of the stem of the noun : So let's concretize woth an exemple : chid (rectus singular) --> chiďi (obliquus singular), but : chido (accusative singular).
 * Rectus : expresses the subject and the direct object of a sentence
 * Obliquus : expresses the indirect object and the possessed noun
 * Accusative : expresses the direct object in a sentence being in the perfect aspect (split accusativity)
 * Partitive : expresses the part of the direct object in a sentence
 * Locative : expresses the location
 * b --> bľ
 * d --> ď
 * g --> ď
 * k --> ť
 * l --> ľ
 * n --> ň
 * p --> pľ
 * t --> ť
 * z --> zľ
 * š --> šj
 * ch --> hť
 * dh --> dľ

It may seem hard to distinguish between the obliquus case with an dative function (indirect object) and that one with an genitive function (possessive object). In the written language, this distinction is made by the logical function of the obliquus case in the sentence, e.g. : Danťem dar sustrit Mariji. (=I'm giving Mary's sister a gift. - firstly, it is logical considering the context that it must be "Mary's sister", and not "sister's Mary", secondly in recent times, the convention has risen up to put the dative function first).