East Gothic language

The East Gothic language (East Gothic: Ostgotische Sprache, Burgoignesc: La Lengatge Ostrogoths) is a Gothic language, one of two official languages spoken in Yonderre, a country in central Levantia. East Gothic forms part of the Gothic subfamily and by extension the wider Occidental superfamily. East Gothic is an inflected language, with four cases for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative); three genders (masculine, feminine, neuter); and two numbers (singular, plural). It has strong and weak verbs. The majority of its vocabulary derives from the Gothic branch of Occidental, particularly of the Central Gothic language that came before it. The East Gothic language has been influenced heavily by the Burgoignesc language ever since the Conquest of Joanusterra in the mid-fifteenth century, and, to a lesser extent, Julian Ænglish, from which some words and terms have entered common parlance in Eastern Yonderre.

East Gothic is the native language of around 60 million Yonderians and treated equally to the Burgoignesc language also spoken. Dialects of East Gothic are typically specific to the different regions where it is spoken. Since the popularization of radio, many dialects of East Gothic have been dying out and replaced with the Reichssprache, the "language of the realm", a dialect bridging the gap between Gabion East Gothic and Collinebourg East Gothic, very popular in radio, television and with Yonderian cinema.

The East Gothic language and Hendalarskisch are very closely related and largely mutually intelligible. The largest differences are found in pronunciation and language-specific vocabulary, which may severely hinder mutual intelligibility in some dialects. All dialects of East Gothic and Hendalarskisch form a dialect continuum within a wider Gothic dialect continuum.