The Ãɱʊɾian Islands

## Location

Xiso xo ta pemirkorsun so amur kursaytun so yersexi xay, penti xay yira mufe korsun so anpurtalmak, fuypenti so korsun so yersexi ya. Pemirkorsun so amur penti so riyummoga pentin so xu-kursaytun yax, pemirfaynen yax kontenu, xenti-lomen ner faykang natokiroro. Mafune ner korsune yurkin fiyi, yane raki yurkin fiyi ta mafun, ner raki peno fiyi ta pemirsirroyo so xiturtur so pemirkorsu nato. Shonte so fiyi tenyore ta polinesini so erta. Saytun korsu yurkin nato ner tuyem nato pemirkorsun so Amur ya.

The amurian islands can be seen in the west of Yersex, in the area known as the Anpurtalmak waters, near the edge of the Yersex water territory. The amurian islands are a hub for trade in the south west, to nations like kontenu and shenti-lomen. They are largely involved in fishing and other water based activities, and thus have a diet of mainly seafood and also grains of the large island’s inland forestry. Their culture is comparable to earth polynesians. They sometimes receive tsunamis and strong winds.

### The Islands

Panamata Amur - Mother Amur

Kagamur - Bird Amur

Mafunamur - Fish Amur

Yarunamur - Insect Amur

## Flag

Xiso xo ta fagsifeyi ner ton sirfantuyem so pemirkorsun so amur ya. Riyumnimo ray ta korsusunato ner kur, ner xisene yira riyumnimo ta faynen. Riyumnimo sentonig nato ta pemirkorsu nato - panamata so faynen; ner riyumnimo sentonigi natokiroro ta pemirkorsun natokiroro - penti sir so faynen.

You see green and yellow on the flag of the amurian islands. They represent the sea and sun, and the colours that represent the people. The large circle represents the large island - mother of the people (the motherland); and the small circles represent the small islands - the new homes of the people.

## Dialect

The Amurians speak a very 'convoluted' and different version of Yersexi, with mainly phonological variations, and some dialectal slang.

### Phonology

The unbracketed is the dialectal sound, the bracketed is the sound it replaces from Standard Yersexi. In boxes with a ~, the first phoneme is the extreme Amur phoneme and it can vary towards the second, which is much more conservative in its changes. The phonemes in italics, m, ɳ, and ŋ and β occur due to consonant mutations, not occurring in direct phoneme-switching.

In direct phoneme-switching, only a, e, i, o, and u are used. However, due to the process of bringing vowels closer to the prior vowel (within a word, in the mutations section), the other vowels are included.

### Phonological Mutation (Applied in This Order)

In a word, it's vowels come closer to the one before it, on and on, mimicking the sound changes of native ãmur. /a/ /e/ /i/ /o/ /u/ become:

(after) a: a ɛ ɪ ɒ ʊ

(after) e: æ e ɪ o ʉ

i: æ e i o ʉ

o: ɐ ɘ ɨ o ʊ

u: ɐ ɘ ɨ o u

ɛ: æ ɛ ɪ ɔ u

ɪ: æ e ɪ o ʉ

ɒ: ɐ ɜ ɪ ɒ ʊ

ʊ: ɐ ɘ ɨ o ʊ

æ: æ ɛ ɪ ɒ ʊ

ʉ: ɐ ɘ ɨ o ʉ

ɐ: ɐ ɜ ɪ ɔ ʊ

ɘ: ɐ ɘ ɪ o ʉ

ɨ: ɐ ɘ ɨ o ʉ

ɜ: ɐ ɜ ɪ ɔ ʊ

So, /makenujote/ - /ɱaɡɛnujoɖɘ/

Vowels can spontaneously disappear, especially if the same vowel is repeated or the vowel is around the mid-central region.

Nasalisation for consonants after nasal. Both are removed. So: /lantfonp/ - /lanɖvɒnb/ - /lanvɒm/

Nasalisation for vowels before nasals, unless there is another vowel directly after the nasal. Nasal is removed. So: /ɾantfonp/ - /lanɖvɒnb/ - /laɳvɒm/ - /lãvɒ̃/

Plosives become Fricatives when there is a plosive-fricative at the end of a syllable, removing the fricative. /atfa/ - /aɖva/ - /aʐa/

## Culture

### Religion

Amur is one of the original homes of the religion Xonte Nexati, and is situated very close to its sacred sites. Virtually everyone on the island believes in it, apart from foreign and other state’s diplomats

## The National Anthem

Raki ku ta panamata amur

Yo yam, katem, miko shay rutiy ku

Kukon pemirkorsu so ku ta gayrin, fotin shay xituru

Kukon korsun so ku ta mafunu shay foyo

Ku faynenatokiroron, ku mentag

Mother Amur feeds us

With her, we breath and drink and live

Our island has grass, flowers, trees

Our waters have fish and salt

We are Children, we are happy

Eat we ACC. mother amur

She with, breath, drink and live we

Have island of us ACC. grass, flowers and trees

Have waters of us ACC. fishes and salts

We children, we happy

Kur nara shay ton

Feyi fagsifeyi shay nato

Pemir fagsi shay kukon ta sirroyxituru

Korsusunato rane shay kukon ta korsun

The sun is bright and yellow

The sky is blue and big

The land is green and has fruit

The sea is wide and water

Sun warm and yellow

Sky blue and big

Earth green and have ACC. fruits

Sea wide and have ACC. waters

Xako, ro shay nemumu ku

Yerse, xerer shay kuntey ku

Reyfo, xiso shay mar ku

Rutiy, katem shay tuna ku

We wash, walk and swim

We speak, sing and laugh

We smell, see and hear

We live, breath and flow

Wash, walk and swim we

Speak, sing and laugh we

Smell, see and hear we

Live, breath and flow we

Raki ku ta panamata amur

Yo yam, katem, miko shay rutiy ku

Kukon pemirkorsu so ku ta gayrin, fotin shay xituru

Kukon korsun so ku ta mafunu shay foyo

Ku faynenatokiroron, ku mentag

Mother Amur feeds us

With her, we breath and drink and live

Our island has grass, flowers, trees

Our waters have fish and salt

We are Children, we are happy

Eat we ACC. mother amur

She with, breath, drink and live we

Have island of us ACC. grass, flowers and trees

Have waters of us ACC. fishes and salts

We children, we happy

Pufu yurre ku yira pemir so ku tig

Rutiy ku yamkiroro tigkiroro, xoro so ku kartag

Pemirfayne, nonovo shay pemiri so ku rofu

So tenunson nim

Because we know our land is good

We live without bad, our blood is righteous

Our country, diplomats, lands are full

Of all we love

Because know we that earth of us good

Live we without bad, blood of us good

Country, diplomats, lands of us full

Of loves all

Riyumnimo sirfantuyeme so ku ta ku

Kur so ku, korsusunato so ku

Ruyti so ku mogakorsu tenyore

Tunay tig, ku tenyore

Our flag symbolises us,

Our sun, our sea

Our life is like a river

The flow is good, like us

Symbolise flag of us ACC. us

Sun of us, sea of us,

Life of us river like

Flow good, us like

Raki ku ta panamata amur

Yo yam, katem, miko shay rutiy ku

Kukon pemirkorsu so ku ta gayrin, fotin shay xituru

Kukon korsun so ku ta mafunu shay foyo

Ku faynenatokiroron, ku mentag

Mother Amur feeds us

With her, we breath and drink and live

Our island has grass, flowers, trees

Our waters have fish and salt

We are Children, we are happy

Eat we ACC. mother amur

She with, breath, drink and live we

Have island of us ACC. grass, flowers and trees

Have waters of us ACC. fishes and salts

We children, we happy