Elenian

This language is in its progressive phase, give it time!

General information
The Elenian Language (Ѫланіскиі Іѧзыкъ Ǫlaniskii Ięzykǔ) is a language descending from the South Slavic branch.

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

Alphabet
Elenian currently uses a Cyrillic-based alphabet consists 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 has traditionally substituted the near-open front unrounded vowel (/æ/)

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. ''

Phonotactics
Elenian has a characteristically Slavic word structure.

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 and Ukrainian.

Being Verb
The verb быти means ''to be. ''The present form is commonly assimilated into a personal pronoun if it precedes it. Examples:

ia + esm' = ias | my + esm = mys

tu + esi = tus | vy + este = vys

on + est' = ones | ona + est' = onasta | otǔ + est' = odzet' | oni + sǫtǔ = onis | očǫ + sǫtǔ = očǫs