Lençoèça

Lençoèça is the most spoken language in the nation of Naleloospalakintula. Lençoèça literally means "language" when translated.

History

After being under the rulings of both Norway and Denmark at different stages in the nation's history, it's taken an influence from those languages, as well as from Faroese. But Naleloospalakintula's lasting desire to be unique has adopted characters from far away lands, such as the ç from Spanish, and õ from Portuguese, as well as š from Czech.

Throughout the ages, letters such as ñ, ã, and even ß dominated literature from it's early history, but linguists have found that the current language is much more easier to pronounce than the "Old" Lençoèça, and a language that most Europeans can in someway understand to some extent when read.

Lençoèça was originally the word for "speech", but now spát has stepped in for the latter.

Differences

Some noticable features in the old language include the missing diphthong of hå. This diphthong was only recently introduced by linguists when found it was more accurate for pronouncing than the original ffå. So the word for over would have been spelt as uffåar. Compared to the modern hå, it's a lot easier for Lençoèça speakers.

Where V now stands in the language would have been used by ñ. The word for "his" in modern day is vys, compared to the earlier days of ñys.

What is now â had two previous ways of spelling. Originally was simply ã. Let's take the Lençoèça word for night; nyâð. In it's earliest form, it would have been nyãð, but then it's sudden unneeded change to nyñãð made it a lot harder for speakers who had to master this change when Denmark were in control, but natives were happy to return to a simple â.

Keeping on â, it was once used where we would now use æ. So "you" once was said kâ, by long gone are them days when independent Naleloospalakintulans voted to replace ñã with â, leaving to borrow æ from fellow Nordics in Iceland.

Basic Greetings

• Good morning - Çúd murnig
• Good day - Çúd dek
• Good afternoon - Çúd efðarnún
• Good evening - Çúd avànig
• Good night - Çúd nyâð
• Hello! - Valu!
• Hi! - Vy!
• Bye! - Bõa!
• See you later - Sá kæ leðar
• Goodbye - Çúdbõa
• Nice to meet you - Nyca ðu máð kæ
• Thank you - Þenc kæ
• How are you? - Vuw era kæ?
• I'm fine, thanks - Y em fyna, þenc kæ
• Welcome! - Walcumà!