Elenian

General information
The Elenian Language (Еленискиі Мелва Eleniskiy Melva) is a language believed to descend from the South Slavic branch.

It is currently the official language of Elenin, spoken by ninety percent of the population (with Greek and Turkish as official secondary languages, among others).

Alphabet and Pronunciation
Elenian currently uses a Cyrillic-based alphabet consisting of 32 letters;

Due to the prioritization of nasalized vowels, the letters Little Yus (/Ѧ/) and Big Yus (/Ѫ/) have remained in the alphabet.

Yat ѣhas traditionally substituted the near-open front unrounded vowel (/æ/)

The vowel у has shifted from /u/ to /y/. Sometimes the digraph оу is used to represent /u/

All iotated vowels have been eliminated since the reform after World War II, instead using the decimal i before a vowel. Decimal i has also been used to substitute the short i (Й) in transliterations of other slavic names. For example, the Russian name Юрий could be rendered as ''Іуриі. ''

When unstressed the letter и represents a near-close near-front unrounded vowel /ɪ/ as in lint.

Phonotactics
In some words Elenian has retained letter combinations that have been eliminated in most Slavic languages.

Stress
Since the placement of stress and emphasis has an important effect on the meaning of words, it has been developed that a consonant to immediately follow a stressed syllable would be doubled, or otherwise if there are no consonants at the end of the stressed syllable, the vowel would be doubled. For example "тренно" means "train" whereas "треноо" means "tripled". The two are pronounced the same phonetically; the distinguishment between them is that the stress in the first word is on the first syllable and the stress in the second word is on the second syllable.

Vocabulary
The language has a substantial amount of Greek borrowings, a lesser majority of them Turkish.

Loanwords from Greek
Trade with neighboring Greek colonies has effected the Elenian culture and language. The following displays a short list of Greek words that have been adopted into common speech: