Gushli language

Gushli
Koşlenzem . Koşlenzem .
Pronunciation	/ˈkoʃ.len.zem/
Region	Vaniua
Ethnicity	Gushlis
Native speakers	TBD  (2016)
Language family	Vaniuan Eastern Vaniuan Kashisan Gushli
Early forms:	Proto-Vaniuan Proto-Eastern-Vaniuan Proto-Kashisan Old Jazaghan Middle Jazaghan Gushli
Writing system	Vaniuan script
Official status
Official language in	Gushlia
CWS code	JZG-GSH
File:Gushli language map.png

Gushli (. Koşlenzem .; Koşlenzem, /ˈkoʃ.len.zem/) is a Kashisan language within the Eastern Vaniuan branch of the Vaniuan language family. Along with the Balak and Chindushi languages, Gushli is a national variant of the pluricentric Jazaghan language. Gushli belongs to the Kashisan branch of the Vaniuan language family. Standard Gushli is written in the Gushli alphabet, a modified variant of the Vaniuan alphabet.

The Gushli language is considered a continuation of Middle Jazaghan, X. Throughout its history the language has had moderate influence from the Khamaian language, the ancestor of which also served as a substrate for Proto-Kashisan, as well as more significant influence from the Koman language.

There are roughly X million Gushli speakers worldwide, holding official status in Gushlia, and regional or minority status in Komania and Balakia.

Classification

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Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal	m	n
Plosive	p b	t d		k g
Fricative	f v	s z	ʃ ʒ	x ɣ
Affricate		t͡s	t͡ʃ
Approximant			j
Flap or tap		ɾ
Lateral app.		l

Vowels

Gushli has a system of 10 phonemic vowels, consisting of 5 short vowels and 5 long vowels.

Gushli vowel phonemes

	Front	Back
Close	i iː	u uː
Mid	e eː	o oː
Open		ɑ ɑː

Grammar

Morphology

Gushli is a moderately agglutinative language, though it does preserve fusional affixes for nouns and verbs. Nouns are divided into two animacy classes - animate and inanimate - and are inflected slightly differently depending on the class they are on; inanimate nouns don't inflect for plural number, while animate nouns do.