Lennodese

Lennodese (Λεuodocpami, Lenudushpami, /lenudyʃpami/) is a Beltonic language which is the official and predominant language of Lennodos, an island province of Beltonia. It is spoken by an estimated 500,000 million people, representing the vast majority of the island's population.

Lennodese is believed to have diverged from Proto-Beltonic at an early stage in the Beltonic Migrations. It may have well-established on the mainland of Swittany before spreading to the island in the 5th century. By the Middle Ages, the islanders were recognized as speaking a different language. Described by Bacha as "probably the most conservative of the Beltonic languages", Lennodese has seen no major phonological shifts and has been the sole Beltonic language to retain the ergative-absolutive alignment. It has been affected by word fusion, becoming an agglutinative language with polypersonal agreement and a degree of noun incorporation, and also has been affected by a relatively high level of grammatical regularization. Due to the island's history of frequently changing control, it has at various times imported loanwords from Arabic, Greek, Italian, Ottoman Turkish, Wistarian, English and particularly Beltonian.

Lennodese is written in the Beltonian alphabet and its official form is standardized by the Lennodese Academy.