Zvestarid language

The "**Zvestarid language**" of modern times, or **International Bujanski**, is the second of two main standards of the Bujanski language. It is the one used outside Bujan, so it may sound a bit archaic to people from Bujan.

## Differences against Bujanski

The main differences between international Zvestarid and modern Bujanski are:

* what script is used - Zvestarid uses Common ("Cyrillic"), but Bujanski uses its own alphabet from ancient Rukania.
* the name - Bujan always refers its own Slavic language as "Bujanski", but in the rest of the world, "Zvestarid" is often used alongside the more-correct "Bujanski".
* The letter ь is sometimes transcribed as ï instead of ǐ. More often, foreign forms of Zvestarid pronounce it at the end of a word, as -s, -i, or a j-vowel.

## Standards of Zvestarid

* Standard Zvestarid - the one used for international communication.
* Marnosyn
* Heronoi
* Josolchir, Eastern Vozonid Zvestarid
* Azgovian
* Arantarese
* Rukanian - seen as Bujanski but pronounced in Rukanian.
* Pinogunian
* Turodarian
* Nolworran
* Porasonid
* Umbirabian
* Nyralthingar
* Ardeschen - seen in both Bujan and Ardesch as a weird dialect, as "Zvestarid but every noun is in modern Ardeschen".
* Hothrovian

## Variants of "go" (thou, you)

The most notable difference against modern Bujanski is what words are used instead of "go", the word for "you".

The standard word used for "you" in any international text in Zvestarid is "tjo", an archaic form of the modern Bujanski word "go". In spite of the prescribed standards used in various countries, "tjo" is sometimes used, especially when communicating to people from another country.

* sio/sia, tio/tia - Siangwaanian
* tjo/tja - Josolchir, Azgovian
* tjo/tja - Arantarese
* ty - Rukanian
* tö/tē - Heronoi
* tö/ta - Pinogunian
* jor/jar - Marnosyn
* du - Ardeschen

## Standard Zvestarid Vocabulary

In international communication, words from this form are used.

* drondžarai - welcome
* vi - in
* ko - to
* so - with
* eta - this
* jo - I
* čon? - what?
	+ The consonant cluster "čt" does not exist as an initial in many languages of Zvesta's allies.
* kite?, kide? - where?
* kito?, kino? - who?
* zato? - why?

## Varieties of Zvestarid

Officially, most modern countries on Jerde have their own form of Zvestarid, which was standardised away from the Bujanski form after the kingdom fell to Wannaenid oppression.

These forms are considered the official forms of words in those countries.

### Regionalisms

* jō'ita, jotta (jo eta) - I am a/an ...
* ta ... (eta) - am/is/are ...
* ačimbro, asimbro (očjenǐ dobro) - very good (Azgovian Bujanski)
* appærǐ, pǣrǐ (a teperǐ) - however, and now

### Maronsyn Zvestarid

Marnosyns are notorious for their frequent usage of profanity.

* san? - what?
* oxoro - excellent, well done

### Eastern Vozonid Zvestarid

Unless indicated, many of those terms are used in the various countries east of Vozolaz, from Siangwaan and Josol to Varn Venn and Vosercia.

* ačombro - very good, well done
* očoro - very good (Siangwaanian, Sakautari nations east of Vozolaz)
* so? - what? (Siangwaan)
* tærǐ, terje (teperǐ) - but now (Siangwaan)
* ottol! (otvalai) - go away, get lost
* pōltelǐ - a farmer
	+ The standard form in Bujan is zapōltelǐ.
* zapōltelǐ - rural person
	+ In Bujan, it means "a farmer".

### Hothrovian Zvestarid

Hothrovian Zvestarid is notorious for its high level of profanity.

* čo - what
* drind - something wasteful and costly
* -ej (instead of -(n)ij) - (adjective)
* flessa - more
* kravosar, kravos - a devil
* Násto - hell
* olnisam - no one cares
* orro - armed forces
* pent - flatbread
* prudi - wastage
* prudnej - wasteful
* ron - water
* skól - hurrah

#### Curse words

* blja - a curse word
* dalbajob, dalbjob, dablobur - loser; how awful
* huilo - loser, fool
* itinahui, idi nahui - get lost
* jeba - how awful
* nahui - wasted, (intensifier)
* níd, nídnik - cursed, scoundrel
* pašolti - leave and never come back
* pašol ti nahui, pašol nahui - get losta
* pizdes, pízdets - messed up

## Ardeschen loanwords

The Zvestarid used in the republics of Marnos, Turodaron, and Nolworra use Ardeschen loanwords. In their forms of Bujanski, the letter "f" (though foreign to Marnosyn and Turodarian Vozonid) occurs more frequently for those loanwords.

In the most extreme case, every noun and most verbs in the Ardeschen standard have been replaced by modern Ardeschen words, until it has become almost a dialect of the Ardeschen language. Some of those words used in the Ardeschen standard may be considered archaic to everyday speech in Ardesch.

A handful of Ardeschen loanwords are also used in modern Bujanski as they became more popular.

* rotoris (a helicopter)
	+ Mar - rotris
	+ Tur - rotri (ceiling fan), barotri (a helicopter)
	+ Nol - rōtï
	+ Buj - rotar
* loed (an order, a command)
	+ Mar - loidis
	+ Tur - roas
	+ Nol - rōsï
	+ Buj - loiz, ljōz (a command)
	+ Buj - loizitǐ (to command, to order)
* flun (a flag)
	+ Mar - flon
	+ Tur - vjun, vjan
	+ Nol - lön
	+ Buj - vlōn (banner, pennant, streamers)
	+ Buj - vlōnišče (buntings, small flags hung on strings)
* ligas - to heal
	+ Mar - ligon, lignos, lixnos (a doctor)
	+ Tur - ligirro - a doctor
	+ Nol - lykno - doctor
	+ Buj - ligjon, rigon - doctor, medic
	+ Buj - rigomesa - a medic for a school or specific location
	+ Buj - rigjommæst, rigommæst - clinic, first aid station
	+ Buj - rigomiba - first aid, medical help
	+ Buj - rigomestvo - healthcare, capability of first aid

## See also

* Bujanski glossary
* Bujanski slang
* Bujanski calendar
* Bujanski dialects
* Classical Bujanski language, also known as Old Zvestarid
* Late Ardeschen language, the former Lingua franca of Jerde