Middle Sprinske

Sprinske language
La Langa De Sprinske
Created by	Aaron I, Emperor of Sprinske
Users	2 (2022)
Purpose	Kolniaric Languages Falconiac Western Donkrean Donkrean Language Sprinske language
Early form	Slavic
Official status
Official language in	Sprinske Empire Republic of New Riga
Recognised minority language in	Ìmpireachd ùr na h-Alba
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Map of the Kolniari Sector where Kolniaric Languages are spoken
The Sprinske language is classified as "Critically Endangered" because of the low speakers.

Middle Sprinske (La Langa de Sprinske) was a constructed language spoken in the Kolniaric Nations, mostly in the Sprinske Empire. It was based on Latin and Dalmatic, unlike the other Kolniaric languages, which are mostly based on Slavic languages or Greek. Middle Sprinske came after Old Sprinske, and was created because the translator for Old Sprinske was lost. Middle Sprinske was created between 2021 and 2022, and was used until late 2023, when Kaltarsian largely replaced Sprinske in a lot of official purposes. Middle Sprinske effectively died out in late 2023 and a new variation of the language was created in 2024, which removed most Romance, Slavic and Germanic influence in favour of taking influence from other Kolniaric languages and Celtic languages, New Sprinske has replaced Middle Sprinske as the language used in the Sprinske Empire, and is currently under development.

Language Information

Sprinske translator on LingoJam

Alphabet

Sprinske alphabet

Uppercase
A	Á	B	Ċ	Ç	Ć	C	D	E	É	F	G	H	I	Í	J	K	L	M	N	O	Ó	P	R	Я	S	Š	T	U	Ú	V	Y	Z	Ð	Þ
Lowercase
a	á	b	ċ	ç	ć	c	d	e	é	f	g	h	i	í	ȷ	k	l	m	n	o	ó	p	r	я	s	š	t	u	ú	v	y	z	ð	þ

Pronunciation (accents, new letters)

Grapheme	Pronunciation
á	aw
é	ay
ê	eh
í	ee
ó	oh
ú	oo
ç	s
ċ	ch
ć	kh
zc	zh
я	rolling r
š	sh
ð	th in the
þ	th in thin
ȷ	y

Ðardȷa Alphabet

The Ðardȷa Alphabet (Also spelled Ðardhya) is the writing system used to write the Sprinske language. It is mostly used for ceremonial purposes as Sprinske is usually written in Latin. Ðardȷa’s use is expanding beyond the Sprinske language however, as it has also been used in Sprinske Scots and Séitnamic.

History

The Sprinske language was created sometime in 2019 by the Prime Minister of the Sprinske Communist Republic to replace earlier code languages he had created such as Donkrean or Falconiac. Despite being a full language, Sprinske would never gain the amount of speakers that Donkrean, Gorralic or Falconiac had, but it is the only one of those languages that survived the Sprinske Revolution. After the revolution, the language began to grow, witnessing many small changes over its existence, such as some words gaining accents, or the replacement of some words, the most notable example being the earlier word for the, ‘dal’ changing to ‘dál’ before then being replaced with ‘la’.

Sprinske Language Act

When the Sprinske Empire was drafting it’s third constitution in October 2020 to celebrate its second anniversary, an act was added into law that would reform the Sprinske language. This would add three new letters (ċ, ð and þ) but would also remove ‘č’ as it would no longer be necessary with ċ taking its place. All three letters that were added originally came from Old English, a language that Emperor Aaron I found interesting, but it may also have been because he lost the editing link to the translator, and felt it was time to update the language. These reforms tried to make the language easier to learn by making some words sound familiar to speakers of Romance languages, but adding a few similarities to Russian in some areas, such as the word for time changing from ‘cycla’ to ‘vremja’ which is originally descended from the Russian word for time, but slightly modified to fit the Sprinske Language.