Castadillaan Pelaxian

Castadillaan
castadillano, pelajiano castadillano, lingua castadillano, lingua pelajiano castadillano
Ethnicity	Casto-Pelaxiophones Delepasians Taineans Loa Samalosians
Native speakers	L1 speakers: 52 million; L2 speakers: 22 million; Total: 74 million
Language family	Sarpo-Levantine Canetic Urlazian Western Urlazian Taino-Kindredian Mediterranean Albalitorian Pelaxian Vallosi Pelaxian Castadillaan
Early forms	Old Latin Caphiric Latin Vulgar Latin Old Pelaxic Early Modern Pelaxian Isurio-Pelaxian
Writing system	Latin (Pelaxian alphabet) Castadillaan Pelaxian Braille
Signed forms	LSPC
Official status
Official language in	Castadilla Vallosi Economic Association
Recognised minority language in	Almadaria Vallejar
Regulated by	Universidade Mauricio Delepas
Language codes
ISO 639-1	pl
ISO 639-2	plx
ISO 639-3	plc
Glottolog	cast1248
Linguasphere	51-AAA-bha

Castadillaan Pelaxian (pelajiano castadillano) or Castadillaan (castadillano), formerly Delepasian Pelaxian (pelajiano delepasíano) or Delepasian (delepasíano) until 1996, is the set of varieties of the Pelaxian language found in the Most Serene Sovereignty of Castadilla. It spoken by almost all of the thirty-eight million Delepasians in Castadilla and is widely spoken amongst the Delepasian diaspora in countries such as Almadaria, Arona, Tierrador, Vallejar which currently consists of fourteen million Delepasians. With a population of over 58 million, Castadilla is one of the largest Pelaxian-speaking nations in Vallos and is one of three nations on the subcontinent to have a standard of Pelaxian as an official language.

Despite mostly having the same phonology and prosody as Albalitorian Pelaxian, Castadillaan Pelaxian differs considerably from other varieties of Pelaxian by making great use of loanwords from the mainland Vallosi standard of the Isurian language. This unique quirk of Castadillaan Pelaxian is mostly the result of the nation distancing itself greatly from Pelaxia after becoming independent in 1852 when the Delepasian Kingdom collapsed and the final Pelaxian monarch King Luciano II referred to the Delepasians as "ungovernable". This distancing also occurred at the same time as the emergence of Isurian revivalism, a series of social and cultural phenomena in the latter half of the 19th Century which renewed interest in the study and culture of the Isurians.

There were attempts to reconcile Castadillaan Pelaxian with the other official varieties of Pelaxian with the most recent attempt being in the late 1920s and early 1930s when the Delepasian Commonwealth, Lucrecia, and Pelaxia attempted to form an economic forum between the three nations due to their similar economic and social policies at the time; all three of them being under the rule of highly conservative and corporatist ideologies. The Universidade Mauricio Delepas had proposed to reverse the Isurianisation that the language underwent over the past eighty years, but these were shelved due to the outbreak of the Second Great War in 1934 and were ultimately scrapped after the war due to Pelaxia losing interest in the economic forum idea while Lucrecia felt alienated due too Delepasia siding against Caphiria; both Lucrecia and Pelaxia would dismantle their extreme right-wing regimes within a decade after the war and all interest in linguistic reconciliation died down as a result.

Due to the size of Castadilla, there exists several regional varieties of Castadillaan Pelaxian which deviate from the standard in terms of vowel pronunciation and speech intonation despite said varieties remaining mutually intelligible with the standard and with each other.

Phonology

Consonants

Consonants of Castadillaan Pelaxian

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Post-alv./ Palatal	Velar
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		tʃ	k
	voiced	b	d			ɡ
Fricative	voiceless	f	θ	s	(ʃ)	x
	voiced
Nasal		m	n		ɲ
Vibrant				ɾ, r
Approximant				l	ʝ, ʎ

Vowels

Vowels of Castadillaan Pelaxian

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e		o
Open		a

Writing system

Pelaxian alphabet

As a variety of the Pelaxian language, the Latin-based Pelaxian alphabet was the first alphabet used for Castadillaan Pelaxian. It is virtually indistinguishable from the alphabet used in Albalitorian Pelaxian with the only key differences being in the letter X which is not pronounced as /x/ like in the Albalitorian variety, but rather it is primarily pronounced as /ʃ/ like in the Vallosi standard of the Isurian language. This originated during the period of Isurian revivalism.

Letter	Phoneme
A a	/a/
B b	/b/
C c	/k/ /θ/
Ch ch	/tʃ/
D d	/d/
E e	/e/
F f	/f/
G g	/g/ /x/
H h	Silent
I i	/i/
J j	/x/
K k	/k/
L l	/l/
Ll ll	/ʎ/
M m	/m/
N n	/n/
Ñ ñ	/ɲ/
O o	/o/
P p	/p/
Q q	/k/
R r	/ɾ/ /r/
S s	/s/
T t	/t/
U u	/u/
V v	/b/
W w	/w/ /b/
X x	/ʃ/ /ks/ /s/
Y y	/ʝ/ /i/
Z z	/θ/

Delepasian Cyrillic

Prior to the pelaxianisation policies done by the Estado Social regime, Volonian immigrants used an adaptation of the Cyrillic script for the Delepasian variety of Pelaxian. Delepasian Cyrillic was a transcription of Delepasian Pelaxian that was in use amongst the Volonian diaspora from the 1870s until the 1930s. It is unique for being one of the few Cyrillic alphabets used for a Urlazian language. Some Cyrillic letters that were not used in Volonian Cyrillic have also found use in Delepasian Cyrillic to represent sounds not commonly found in Volonian such as the Cyrillic letter Љ to represent the Pelaxian letter Ll.

Letter	Castadillaan Latin equivalent	Volonian Latin equivalent	Castadillaan Phoneme
А а	A a	A a	/a/
Б Б	B b V v W w	B b	/b/
Ѳ ѳ	C c Z z	Th th	/θ/
Ч ч	Ch ch	C c Ci ci	/tʃ/
Д д	D d	D d	/d/
Є є	E e	E e	/e/
Ф ф	F f	F f	/f/
Г г	G g	G g Gh gh	/ɡ/
И и	I i Y y	I i	/i/
Х х	J j	H h	/x/
К к	K k Q q	C c Ch ch K k	/k/
Л л	L l	L l	/l/
Љ љ	Ll ll	None	/ʎ/
М м	M m	M m	/m/
Н н	N n	N n	/n/
Њ њ	Ñ ñ	None	/ɲ/
Ѡ ѡ	O o	O o	/o/
П п	P p	P p	/p/
Р р	R r	R r	/ɾ/ /r/
С с	S s X x	S s	/s/
Т т	T t	T t	/t/
ОУ оу	U u	U u	/u/
Ѵ ѵ	W w	U u	/w/
Ѯ ѯ	X x	X x	/ks/
Ш ш	X x	Ș ș	/ʃ/
Й й	Y y	I i	/ʝ/