Listenbourgese
The Listenbourgese language (Listenbourgese: Lnjuörkhë Listenvugre [ʎɲʊ'ʏœ.ʀ̥xɤ ljs.tũɲ.ˈvy.hr]), also known as Listenbourgese or Listenbourgish is a Paleo-European language. It is known for having lots of vocabulary from different languages and different superstrate influences. It is often claimed that the language is a result of an Paleo-Hispanic substrate with an Indo-European superstrate.
It is a language spoken by approximately 76.5 million people around the world. Distributing it, ~72.2 million people has Listenbourgese as its first/mother/native language, while the rest is L2.
In Listenbourg, where the homeland of the language is, it is spoken by ~91% of the population(L1/L2), that means, ~59 million people. The rest speaks Basque, Irish, Galician, Occitan, Breton, Cornish and Asturian, with speakers of these languages being mainly monolingual.
| Listenvugre | |
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| Listenbourgese, Listenbourgeoise, Limburgués | |
| File:Listenbourganlimit.jpg | |
| Pronunciation | [[w:Help:IPA|ljs.tũɲ.ˈvy.hr]] |
| Created by | – |
| Setting | Listenbourg |
| Native speakers | 76.5 million (2022) |
Proto-Listenbourgese
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It is ranked Category V by the Foreign Service Institute, that means, it would approximately take 2,200 hours to get fluent.
Linguistically speaking, Listenbourgan is has a Direct-Inverse morphosyntactic alignment, fusional and synthetic language. It has OVS word order, influenced by neighboring languages(Old varieties had OSV). It is syllable-timed. It is known for having different consonants and vowels and loanwords from neighboring languages, such as Basque, Spanish, Portuguese, French, English and Celtic languages.
History
Listenbourg is located right after a gigantic mountain range that marks the whole border with Spain and Portugal. Because of that and the difficulty to get to the other side, the first inhabitants were Paleo-European people that came from the region of Gibraltar around 5000 BC.
Because of isolation and no kind of script, they evolved the Proto-Listenbourgan language, and because it was only spoken, it evolved rapidly and the words changed a lot. In ~500 BC a script was created, based on the vikings’ runes.
Old Listenbourgan(~1 BC - 14th century) had a huge literature and the script was literally how it was spoken, so it’s possible to see how people a thousand years back spoke. Because of that, people would speak the way it was written, so there had little changes on the phonology.
Classical Listenbourgan(15th Century - 18th Century) had been depicted in lots of places, such as movies and fiction books. It was a prestige language by ancient polyglots and was a “must-learn” language like Latin or Ancient Greek, however, it lost popularity over the centuries. Because of the expansion of the Listenbourgan Empire during this centuries, the language was spread over the world. Outside Europe, it is currently primarily spoken on its ex-colonies; Gabon, Namibia, Botswana, Solomon Islands and Belize. In Manitoba, Canada, it is spoken because of Listenbourgan immigrants during WW1 and WW2.
Modern Listenbourgan(19th Century - Nowadays). Modern Listenbourgan is the language spoken from the early 1800s until nowadays. It was turned into the modern language when a huge language standardization, also known as the Great Reform was done in 1798. The current language is used on newspapers, videos, films and videogames.