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Lišĕč is a language, spoken in a zone on the border between Poland and Ucraine. It’s an highly agglutinative language, and it‘s similar to Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian languages, maybe related to the Uralic family, but it has many differences, that show the influence of Slavic and German languages.

It can be written both with Latin Alphabet and with Cyrillic alphabet.

Phonology

Vowel harmony

The vowel harmony is typical phenomenon of non-Indo-european languages in Europe.

The vowels of interchangeable endings change according to the last vowel in the last syllable of the word.

The interchangeable vowels in the endings are:

• -e-: for a last front vowel in the world
• -a-: for a last central vowel in the world
• -o-: for a last back vowel in the world

Examples: The plural endings are: -nes, -nas, -nos / -нес, -нас, -нос

Lin (man) → Linnes / Лин (man) → Линнес
Tanõk (sea) → Tanõknos / Танõк (sea) → Танõкнос
Sava (river) → Savanas / Сава (river) → Саванас

Vowels

	Front	Near-front	Central	Near-back	Back
Close	i • y   ɨ u e o ə    ɛ • œ ɔ æ      a
Close-mid
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio- dental	Dental	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Plosive	p b		t d				k ɡ
Nasal	m	ɱ	n			ɲ
Vibrant			r
Fricative		f v	θ ð	s z	ʃ
Affricate				ʦ ʣ	ʧ ʤ
Approximant						j	ɰ
Lateral approximant			l			ʎ

Writing systems

Lišěč can be written with both a modified version of Latin alfabet (called Latinka/Латинка) and a modified version of Cirillic alfabet (сalled Kirilica/Кирилица).

IPA consonant	Latin	Cyrillic
/p/	p	п
/b/	b	б
/t/	t	т
/d/	d	д
/k/	k	к
/g/	g	г
/m/	m	м
/n/	n	н
/ɲ/	ň	њ
/ʦ/	c	ц
/ʣ/	z	ѕ
/ʧ/	č	ч
/ʤ/	ğ	ђ
/f/	f	ф
/v/	v	в
/θ/	ţ	ө
/ð/	đ	ћ
/s/	s	с
/z/	ś	з
/ʃ/	š	ш
/r/	r	р
/j/	j	й
/ɰ/	u	у
/l/	l	л
/ʎ/	ł	љ

IPA vowel	Latin	Cyrillic
/i/	i	и
/y/	ü	ÿ
/ɨ/	y	ы
/u/	u	у
/e/	e	е
/ɛ/	ĕ	ĕ
/ə/	ë	ё
/œ/	ö	ö
/æ/	ä	ä
/a/	a	а
/ɔ/	õ	õ
/o/	o	о

Morphology

Lišĕč has an agglutinative morphology, i.e, words are declined and take endings, but these ending have only one meaning, instead of the multiple meaning of a Indo-european desinence.

Exemple:

• Latin: Urbium (genitive plural of the cities): root urb + desinence -ium, the desinence have meaning of both plural and genitive case.
• Lišĕč: Gradanasal (genitive plural of the cities): root grada + plural desinence -nas- + genitive desinence -al

Substantives

Substantives have no genre, but they decline according to number (singular, plural and collective) and cases (29 cases):

Number

Number	Latin	Cyrillic
Singular	-	-
Plural	-nas/nes/nos	-нас/нес/нос
Collective	-ałij/ełij/ołij	-аљий/ељий/ољий

The collective number means a defined group of objects or beings, while plural number indicates an undefined number of objects or things (both functions are covered by plural in Indo-european languages):

The collective should be used:

• With cardinal numbers
• Without numbers to indicate “a group of” or with uncountable nouns to indicate “a little of”, “a bit of”

Case

The case indicates the role the word plays in the sentence, without prepositions. Lišěč has 29 cases, many more of any Indo-european language, but a large number of cases is normal for Uralic languages.

Case	Latin	Cyrillic	Case function
Nominative	-	-	Case of subject
Genitive	-al/el/ol	-ал/ел/ол	Case of possession