| Wistarian ويستِري | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | |||
| Agglutinative-Synthetic | |||
| Alignment | |||
| Split ergative | |||
| Head direction | |||
| Initial | |||
| Tonal | |||
| No | |||
| Declensions | |||
| Yes | |||
| Conjugations | |||
| Yes | |||
| Genders | |||
| No | |||
| Nouns decline according to... | |||
| Case | Number | ||
| Definiteness | Gender | ||
| Verbs conjugate according to... | |||
| Voice | Mood | ||
| Person | Number | ||
| Tense | Aspect | ||
Wistarian (ويستِري, Wistari, /wístɐɾi/) is a Beltonic language which is the official and predominant language of Wistaria. It is spoken by an estimated 18 million people as a first language, and 6 million as a second language (mostly in Euchesia).
Wistarian has multiple dialects, almost all of which are mutually intelligible. The standardized form of the language is regulated by the Wistarian Academy. Wistarian is primarily written with the Wistarian Arabic alphabet. It has the best-preserved the nonconcatenative morphology, pitch accent and large consonant inventory of Proto-Beltonic though it has been altered by sound shifts, including a system of vowel reduction that arose independently of Beltonian. Like most of the other Beltonic languages, it is a fusional and relatively inflected language with case marking, variable word order and a large number of verb moods.
Beltonic languages were first spread to the area during the Beltonic Migrations. Initially considered a series of Beltonian dialects, a distinct Wistarian language and culture began to emerged after the Arab conquest of the area in the late 8th century. Compared to the other languages, Wistarian has far more influence from Arabic, Ottoman Turkish and, via both those languages, Persian. It has also been absorbed vocabulary from Beltonian, Romance languages and more recently English. Wistarian has a rich legacy of literature, especially its tradition of Ghazal poetry.