Ezerryen Easwegian Language

Ezerryen Easwegian; Easwegian: Benai Ezerryen; Norwegian: Ezerryen Jarnsk; also known as Lakeside Easwegian, is a language formed within Easway, and one of the nation's three official languages, alongside Norwegian and English. Most Easwegian speakers live on Bear Island, concentrated in Essrina and Boriopa City.

The language's distinguishing feature is being OSV [object-subject-verb], a rarity in natural languages. For example, "he plays the guitar" would be *zenco dauluse*, equivalent in English to "guitar he plays".

### Establishment of the Modern Language

On December 19th the Emizerri became the Grand Councillor of the newly independent Easway and immediately made Ezerryen Easwegian an official language of the Easwegian Realm, alongside Norwegian spoken within Bear Island, and English as an official lingua franca. Essrina, the nation's first municipality (then translated as provinces) became the official capital of the Ezerryen Easwegian language. Previously not having a official name for the language, the Emizerri called it "Benai Ezerryen", meaning language of the Easwegian Realm, referencing that it formed within the Realm's, [or reach's] borders from the nation's influencing languages and history. It is worth noting that in Ezerryen Easwegian, the word for an Easwegian citizen is different than the name for the language, being Zerri.

The Emizerri's first task was creating a standardised script for the language, which had previously never had one and so he used the word Emando, meaning protection, which had been the name of the ground forces of the Independent Serpent Forces as a starting point for creating the orthography as the word has three common vowels and three common consonants, as well as holding significance to the then newly independent Realm.

Whilst the People's Committees focused on developing the economy and governance of the island, the Emizerri focused a lot of energy on expanding this new official language and combing through common Ezerryen Easwegian words to create a standardised dictionary. Within three months the language's dictionary had around 1500 standardised official words, mostly coming from words the Emizerri used in his daily life, with his focus on the orthography being on how he thought the aesthetic of each word should be portrayed, connecting this with sounds. The Emizerri thought that when people saw the language, they should not only appreciate how it sounds, but how it looks. The then Grand Marshal Aleksou Maximus Desourrë advised the Emizerri that the language should not be artificially complicated and so it was agreed that diacritics within the language would be kept to a minimum, eventually only the rarely used ç and ë being employed.

The Emizerri and the National Committee responsible for high level executive decisions pertaining to the Easwegian people and its democracy nicknamed Ezerryen Easwegian as "the language of expression".

## Alphabet

The Ezerryen Easwegian language uses a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, two of which (ë, and ç) have been modified for the linguistic requirements of the language, although they are not required for a full understanding of the language, and are rarely employed. The alphabet does not contain the letter f, as it is not used within Ezerryen Easwegian, except in loan words.

## History of the Language

Ezerryen Easwegian takes influence from the Pomor's 19th century trading language Russenorsk and has a lot of borrowed vocabulary, changed to fit the phonology of how Ezerryen Easwegian speakers pronounce words.

## Phonology

Letters between slashes / / indicate phonemic transcription, letters in square brackets [ ] indicate phonetic transcription and letters in triangular brackets ⟨ ⟩ indicate standard Easwegian orthography.

### Vowels

The Easwegian language contains 13 vowels.