Dorian

Dorian is a Slavic language spoken by the Dorian peoples in the country of Dora. Although it is related to common slavic languages such as Russian or Bulgarian, Dorian is different in its grammar and phonology. Dorian is known by its neighbors to be a very odd language, partly because the phoneme /ʃ /, which occurs very often in words.

Classification and Dialects
Dorian is one of the Anigarsko-Dorian languages, one branch of the Martino-Dorian languages spoken in the confederate state Martinia. Its ancestor was the first language to break from the common language of all Martion-Dorian languages, Proto-Martino-Dorian, and because of its proximity to Saanaimaa, a country which speaks the Uralic Saanain, it has engaged in two-way exchange with Saanain, resulting in many Uralic loanwords in Dorian and Dorian loanwords in Saanain.

Writing System
Dorian uses the Cyrillic alphabet.
 * Because there is not enough space to fit all variations of these letters, they are shown in the section below.

Vowels with Diaereses
The vowels a, e, i, and o have four forms, three of which are with diaereses.

The second form of these vowels is the vowel with a macron above (ā ē ī ō) which shows that the vowel is stressed in a word. For example, the word oч ш ī (/ɔ't ʃ i/), meaning "let go!", must be written with the macron above i, showing that the stress falls on the syllable containing i.

The third form is the vowel with a tilde above (ã ẽ ĩ õ) which shows that the vowel is pronounced long. For exampe, the word гp ẽг  (/ ɣp ɛ ː ɟ /),  meaning "wrong", must be written with the tilde in order to not be confused with the similar гp eг ,  meaning "he burns".

The fourth form is the vowel with an accent above (á é í ó) which shows that the vowel is to be pronounced "shallow" rather than "deep". This means that /a/, /<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">ɛ /, /i/, /<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">ɔ /, are moved backwards, resulting in /<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">ɐ /, /<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">ʌ /, /<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">ɨ /, /<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">ɤ /, respectively. For example, this is how the word <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">мe <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:14.98px;text-align:center;">з ē<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:14.98px;text-align:center;">  (/m<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">ɛ 'z<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">ɛ /), a Bulgarian loan meaning "food eaten with alcohol", is distiguished from <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">м é<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:14.98px;text-align:center;">з é (/m<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">ʌ's <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">ʌ /), the first person reflexive pronoun.

Furthermore, the word <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">мo <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">ж <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:14.98px;text-align:center;">д ĩ (/m<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">ɔ <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">ʒ'di <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;text-align:center;">ː /), "powers", is distinguished from <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">м ó<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">ж <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:14.98px;text-align:center;">д ĩ (/m<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">ɤ <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">ʒ'di <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;text-align:center;">ː /), "a dream", <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">м ó<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">ж <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:14.98px;text-align:center;">д ī (/m<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">ɤ <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">ʒ'di /), "dream!", and <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">м o<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">ж <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:14.98px;text-align:center;">д ī (/m<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">ɔ <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">ʒ'di /), "control!".

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