Šamolai language
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Ye Šamola baǩije | |
Pronunciation: | /ˈʃæ.mʌ.laɪ/? |
Native to: | Sepercy, Xhequa |
Native speakers: | 400[1] |
Language family: | Wunal-based creole |
Early forms: | Southern Wunal |
Writing System | |
Writing system(s): | Atraelic alphabet |
Official Status | |
Language status: | Endangered |
Minority language in: | Xhequa |
The Šamolai speaking world | |
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Šamolai (Ye Šamola baǩije) is a creole of the Southern Wunal dialect and Xhequan Atraelish spoken in Sepercy, Xhequa, with the largest Šamolai-speaking population living on Massey island off the northeast Sepercian coast. Born from the Variyakoi 75-year occupation of Sepercy in the wake of the Variyakoi-Xhequan War, the language has since faced brutal prosecution by the Xhequan state, to the point where a substantial minority population of native speakers has withered down to roughly four hundred by the close of the nineteenth century, even less of which are fluent speakers.
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Languages | |
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Families | |
Language families | Central Cymluni · Ewigic · Lowcymlu-urcinnan · Neiran · Upcymlu-amleian · Yumeran |
Languages | |
Major languages | Abata · Amulni · Atraelish · Barva · Cesmelan · Etruarac · Flaigalish · Gakknir · Gashaorhieli · Jovaran · Mahleka · Mainathan · Mordrasi · Mukegani · Pelannician · Ruuvatthan · Seonmi · Tzolkese · Umura · Varlish · Virassian · Wunal · Yashurhieli |
Minor languages | Šamolai |
Misc. | |
Grammar | Amulni · Seonmi · Virassian · Wunal |
Word lists | List of Seonmi words and phrases · List of Wunal words and phrases |
- ↑ Official census, 1896