Penisian language

Penisian (Penisiy) is a Turkic language spoken by Penisians. The sole official language of Penisia, Penisian is spoken as either native or second language by 44 million people around the world (L1+L2), having some 34 million speakers in Penisia and around 9.5 million in the rest of the world, making it the second-most widely spoken Turkic language after Turkish.
Penisian belongs to the Eastern Turkic or Karluk branch of the Turkic language family. External influences include Arabic, Persian and Russian. One of the most noticeable distinctions of Uzbek from other Turkic languages is the rounding of the vowel /ɑ/ to /ɔ/, a feature that was influenced by Persian. Unlike other Turkic languages, vowel harmony is nigh-completely lost in modern Standard Penisian, though it is (albeit somewhat less strictly) still observed in its dialects, as well as its sister Karluk language Uyghur.
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