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Zimanian, sometimes called Liorstan, is the official language of the island nation of Liorst, located in the Gulf of Xho. It's spoken by approximately 70 million people in Liorst, as well as about 110 million people on the island conglomerations of Firu and Dwqueti as a lingua franca, as those nations are part of Liorst's naval empire. It also has a few hundred thousand extra speakers in the trading business due to its widespread use across the seas.

Classification and Dialects
Zimanian is an agglutinative language with some fusional tendencies. Just like all Missean languages, it has tripartite-alignment. There are five main dialects of Zimanian:  General, Countryside, Southern Islands, Western Islands, and "Sailor-Talk." This page covers the General Zimanian dialect.

Consonants
+ /w/

Phonotactics
Onset: Nucleus: Coda: Other:
 * All consonants allowed except /ɴ/ and /ʔ/.
 * pʰ and qʰ become unaspirated when clustering.
 * All onset consonants can be palatized with the letter "i", or labialized with the letter "u".
 * The nucleus can be any pure vowel or diphthong.
 * Oral vowels can form diphthongs with other orals, but not nasals.
 * Nasal vowels do not form diphthongs and usually end a word (except with suffixes).
 * All consonants allowed except /ɾ/, /ʀ/, /w/, and /ʔ/.
 * pʰ and qʰ become unaspirated.
 * Nasals are absolutely NEVER geminated.


 * /ʔ/ is always intervocalic

Stress
Stress usually falls on the last or penultimate syllable.

Nouns
Nouns in Zimanian decline according to definiteness, number, and case, in that order. They work very similarly to how they do in other Missean languages (I haven't made the article yet).

Definiteness
There are no definite or indefinite articles in Zimanian, but there is the negative article. It is represented as the suffix -souem ( /syːm/ ) that attaches its noun. ''' Ex. pilanz ( /pʰɪlɑ̃ː/ ) - building;  pilanzsouem ( /pʰɪlɑ̃ːzsyːm/ ) - no building. '''

Number
The number system of Zimanian is rather complicated compared to English. There are 4 (kind of 5) grammatical numbers:
 * Collective can also mean paucal-collective (all groups of an item).

Case
Nouns are inflected via particles à la Japanese that precede or follow the noun or suffixes.
 * Genitive: initial /n̪/ in suffix is dropped if noun ends in consonant

Spelling and pronunciation of grammatical number sometimes changes when using the accusative, genitive, or locative suffixes:

Verbs