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Revision as of 09:15, 16 February 2006
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 |
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| Close-mid | ||||||
| Mid | ||||||
| Open-mid | ||||||
| Open | ||||||
