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The '''Pentapolitan Argot''', often called '''the Argot''' for short and known within the [[Pentapolis]] as the '''''Aranstadtsch Spräche''''', is a creole language based on the [[Werdacher]] form of [[Hendalarskisch]]. Like Werdacher, it broadly conforms to standard Hendalarskisch grammar, but unlike Werdacher or indeed any other form of Hendalarskisch, its corpus of vocabulary is very extensively marked by | The '''Pentapolitan Argot''', often called '''the Argot''' for short and known within the [[Pentapolis]] as the '''''Aranstadtsch Spräche''''', is a creole language based on the [[Werdacher]] form of [[Hendalarskisch]]. Like Werdacher, it broadly conforms to standard Hendalarskisch grammar, but unlike Werdacher or indeed any other form of Hendalarskisch, its corpus of vocabulary is very extensively marked by [[Fhasen]], [[Lagyar language|Lagyar]], [[Burgoignesc]] and (to a lesser extent) [[Junglish]] influences. Consequently, while standard Hendalarskisch and Werdacher are both readily intelligible to almost all Pentapolitans, the reverse is much less frequently true, a fact which has made the language politically useful and consequently culturally supported. The product of the Pentapolitan cities' role as major trading entrepôts, the Argot has been attested in various forms for several hundred years, but since the 19th century it has undergone a degree of codification highly unusual for a creole language and now enjoys official status in each of the five cities as a consequence. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
==Classification== | ==Classification== | ||
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==Grammar== | ==Grammar== | ||
==Usage== | ==Usage== | ||
The Argot enjoys full legal recognition in the Pentapolis, where it is the only language that is official across all five cities. It has almost no speakers and consequently no official status within Hendalarsk outside of the Cities, however, and it is not a working language of either the Great Chamber or the Forum of Nations, a fact which is a source of some political tension. Within the Cities, the Argot is considerably more widely-spoken than Standard Hendalarskisch itself; the majority of the citizens of [[Wrzeczsz-Kokoszki]], for example, do not speak anything but the most basic Standard Hendalarskisch but are fluent in both the Kokoszkian dialect of | The Argot enjoys full legal recognition in the Pentapolis, where it is the only language that is official across all five cities. It has almost no speakers and consequently no official status within Hendalarsk outside of the Cities, however, and it is not a working language of either the Great Chamber or the Forum of Nations, a fact which is a source of some political tension. Within the Cities, the Argot is considerably more widely-spoken than Standard Hendalarskisch itself; the majority of the citizens of [[Wrzeczsz-Kokoszki]], for example, do not speak anything but the most basic Standard Hendalarskisch but are fluent in both the Kokoszkian dialect of Lagyar and the Argot, with both possessing equal status in the city. Even the other more traditionally Gothic cities of the Pentapolis use Standard Hendalarskisch in a distinctly secondary capacity, with the Argot hegemonic in politics, administration and culture alike. Many other mercantile communities around the Vandarch littoral are home to Argot speakers, in the form of both emigrants from the Pentapolis and locals who speak the Argot in order to better communicate with Pentapolitan traders. It has, however, proven difficult to estimate how many speakers of the language exist outside the Pentapolis, with some estimates suggesting that almost 95% of the language's speakers live within the Pentapolis itself. The Argot has in recent decades become somewhat fashionable among sailors of the Hendalarskara Navy and the Hendalarskara merchant marine, as distinct from their Pentapolitan equivalents, but while it is unofficially recognised that there are benefits to two formal navies sharing one working language, it is officially frowned upon and Standard Hendalarskisch remains the sole official working language of both Hendalarskara fleets. | ||
==Examples== | ==Examples== | ||
===Words=== | ===Words=== | ||
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| Example || Example || Example | | Example || Example || Example | ||
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| Grain ship || | | Grain ship || Granschiw || Fhasen “grán” (grain) and Werdacher “Schiw” (ship) | ||
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| Yes || | | Yes || Jan || Convergence of Lagyar “igen” and Werdacher “ja”, both meaning “yes” | ||
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| No || Nen || Convergence of Lagyar “nem” and Werdacher “nein”, both meaning “yes” | |||
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| Yonderre || Iondreia || | | Yonderre || Iondreia || | ||
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| Hendalarsk || | | Hendalarsk || Yendalasch || | ||
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| Sea || | | Sea || Temir || Portmanteau of Fhasen “muir”, Lagyar “tenger” and Werdacher “Meere”, all meaning “sea” | ||
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| Free City || | | Free City || Serstadt || Portmanteau of Fhasen “saoirse” and Werdacher "Stadt", meaning "free" and "town/city" respectively | ||
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| Language || Spräche || Minor variation on Werdacher "Spreche", closer than Werdacher to HenSta<ref>Short for Standard Hendalarskisch</ref> "Sprache" | | Language || Spräche || Minor variation on Werdacher "Spreche", closer than Werdacher to HenSta<ref>Short for Standard Hendalarskisch</ref> "Sprache" | ||
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| Building || | | Building || Gebuye || Derived from Werdacher "Geböd", with Lagyar mutation. Compare HenSta "Gebäude". | ||
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| | | Pier/Wharf || Rakee || Portmanteau of Lagyar “Rakpart” and Werdacher “Kai”/Fhasen “cé”, meaning “wharf” and “quay” respectively | ||
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| River || | | River || Flaune || Portmanteau of Werdacher “Fluss” and Fhasen “abhainn”, with -e inflection because of the feminine connotation of rivers in Hendalarskisch cultures | ||
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| Freedom || | | Freedom || Serscheid || Fhasen “saoirse”, suffixed by Werdacher “-heid”, a particle frequently used to convert adjectives into abstract nouns | ||
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| Mountain || | | Mountain || Bergye || Lagyar mutation of Werdacher “Berge” | ||
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| Coin || | | Coin || Münsäm || ,Lagyar mutation of Werdacher "Münse", itself an archaism - HenSta tends towards "Geldstück" | ||
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| Copper || Kufer || Variation on Werdacher-HenSta "Kupfer", modified by | | Copper || Kufer || Variation on Werdacher-HenSta "Kupfer", modified by Lagyar and Fhasen unfamiliarity with "pf" | ||
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| Gold || | | Gold || Oran || A fusion of Fhasen “ór” and Lagyar “arany”; there is no Central Gothic-derived word for "gold" for [[Gold in Hendalarsk|historical reasons]]. | ||
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| Computer || | | Computer || Kuferschen || Compound of "Kufer" (see above) and a portmanteau of Werdacher “Gehin” and Fhasen “inchinn” (brain), to give “copperbrain”. HenSta prefers “Kupfrechner” (copper calculator) | ||
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| Citadel || | | Citadel || Stadovar || “city castle” - “Stadt” from Werdacher “city” suffixed by Lagyar “var” (castle) | ||
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| Captain (of a ship) || | | Captain (of a ship) || Schiwschrieg || Compound of Werdacher “Schiw” (ship) with Fhasen “rí” (king), the latter heavily mutated by Germanic influence | ||
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| Two || Zwa || | | Two || Zwa || Fusion of Werdacher “zwä” with Fhasen “dhá” | ||
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===Phrases=== | ===Phrases=== | ||