Kanadorsk

Kanadorsk is a North Germanic language; the language of Kanadorika. It is an Indo-European language in the Northern Germanic, or Nordic branch of the Germanic languages. Kanadorsk is generally viewed as one of the most ancient languages in Northerlands; the language itself having changed little over the past thousand years thanks in part to Kanadorika's geographic and cultural isolation, as well as an almost total lack of loanwords within the language.

Most Western languages have greatly reduced levels of inflection, particularly noun declension. In contrast, Kanadorsk retains a four-case synthetic grammar comparable to, but considerably more conservative and synthetic than, German. By virtue of its being in the Germanic family, which as a whole reduced the Indo-European case system, it is inappropriate to compare the grammar of Kanadorsk to that of the more conservative Baltic and Slavic languages of the Indo-European family, many of which retain six or more cases, except to note that Kanadorsk utilises a wide assortment of irregular declensions. Kanadorsk also possesses many instances of oblique cases without any governing word, as does Latin. For example, many of the various Latin ablatives have a corresponding Kanadosk dative. The conservatism of the Kanadorsk language and its resultant near-isomorphism to Old Norse (which is equivalently termed Old Kanadorsk by linguists) means that modern Kanadorikans can easily read the Eddas, sagas, and other classic Old Norse literary works created in the tenth through thirteenth centuries.

Alphabet


The Kanadorsk language uses a 32 letter variant of the Latin Alphabet. The letters C, Q, and W are only used in loanwords of foreign origin, while he letter Z has been omitted from the alphabet since 1970. In addition to these Latin characters, Kanadorsk also uses two letters found in no other language; Eth (Ð,ð) and Thorn (Þ,þ). Thorn originated as a letter in the runic alphabet.

The Runic alphabet is still taught in Kanadorikan schools, and is often used in traditional works and in religious scriptures.