Eisendel Language

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Eisendel or Ejzndel is part of the theoretical language family of Tuisgen. It is spoken mainly in the country of Eisenland-Pahonja and Reinrose. It is also a minority language in Valondor, Autokratoria of Sirradra, Avertico and Vathyria.

Eisendel all by itself is not too dissimilar from the Traveller's Tongue. It is said to be part of the theoretical language family of Tuisgen, which the Traveller's Tongue is part of too, yet it is still debated. Other languages who are part of the Tuisgen language family are Kan, Thorna and Deutzan.

Eisendel is written in the Traveller's Tongue Script, and for most of its history it was written in it too. Although it wasn't always the case. Eisendel was previously written with a modified version of the Asteri script. It was mostly used on oak barks, but once people started writing on paper, they quickly started using the Traveller's Tongue Script, the reason is yet unknown why this sudden change had occurred.

The Great Orthographic Reform
Eisendel went through an important orthographic reform, for it was deemed that the orthography at that time was too unnecessarily complex and senseless. Many Eisenlandian linguists were initially opposed to the reform because of its radical changes. Reformists argued that a more phonetic writing would make more sense and that writing in it would be easier and thus easier to communicate through writing, and that it would equal speaking. Anti-reformists argued that a phonetic writing would be an orthography that is constantly changing. And that everyone speaks differently and as a result, a phonetic writing cannot work for a big community. This discord went on for almost a year, and resulted in the reformist winning and changing the old orthography to a more phonetic one.

The Little Reform
Soon after the Great Orthographic Reform, the anti-reformist who weren't pleased with the changes, managed to convince the reformists to at least change certain words to make it easier to the eyes of the reader and making it easier to read consonant clusters. The reformist quickly agreed that a 100% phonetic orthography isn't practical, and thus decided to make a new reform to make Eisendel more easily readable and practical.

The á question
Another debate emerged after the Great Orthographic Reform, which was the brand-new letter "á", which was previously written as "ah", was discussed. One of the goals of the reformists was to make Eisendel easier to learn for new people coming in the country, but this new letter was odd and thus many wanted to get rid of it because they saw the previous representation "ah" easier to grasp for locals and foreigners. This debate had sparked a strong nationalistic sentiment amongst many linguists, even on the reformists side. For some started to see these reforms as an eradication of the Eisendel language and an assimilation into the more dominantly spoken language at the time, the Traveller's Tongue. Some people even went to the streets and screamed "Ek ve á" ("I am á"), as a protest against any further changes to the Eisendel orthography. Additionally, at that time Eisendel started to add many new words of foreign origin, which made many nationalistic linguists threatened by any further reforms. The á question still remains undecided and many have already forgotten about it, which as a result would mean that the letter "á" would not disappear from the Eisendel language any time soon. Although it has been agreed that an alternative to writing the letter "á" would be "aa".

Dialects
Most Eisendel speakers throughout Rathnir speak one dialect known as Stedadel (City Language), which is the standard form of Eisendel, which is also known as the Central Dialect. There are two more dialects. In the North, there's Bueredel (Farmer Language), also known as the Northern Dialect. And in the South there's Zedel (Sea Language), also known as the Southern Dialect.