Emrit Language

  

This article is part of Project Genesis. This article is about the Kan-Kaijin language spoken in the Korat. For the country, see Azhos of ezh'Emrit. For the city, see ezh'Emrit. For other uses, please see Emrit (disambiguation).

Emrit
Qatashły ezh'Emrit
Qatashły ezh'Emrit ('Language of the Emrit') written in traditional Korati Script on the left and in Assai Script on the right. Countries in Western Assai where Emrit is spoken.   Sole official language   Co-official or secondary language   Unrecognised regional language with significant number of native speakers
Region	The Korat (Western Assai)
Ethnicity	natively Assai Kaijin of the Korat.
Native speakers	98,573,712 (native) (5994)
Language family	Han-Kaijin Kaijin Eastern Kai Assai Assaitic Emrit
Early forms	Proto-Kai Alawazi Riddish Old Church Korati Middle Emrit Modern Emrit
Writing system	Assai, Korati Script (normally in conjunction)
Signed forms	Emriti Sign Language
Official status
Official language in	Aldur Eos ezh'Emrit Kaival Kiradai Kora Meridia Metassia Old Korat Kingdom of Samatar URC Ves Zhatsai.
Recognised minority language in	Greater Assai, Kaishuri, Riden, Cadisia, Eastern Assai
Regulated by	National Academy of Linguistics and Emritic Studies, Samatar, Assai.
Language codes
ISO 639-1	em
ISO 639-2	emr
ISO 639-3	emr

The Emrit Language (EM, in Emrit: Qatashły ezh'Emrit, IPA: xat̞aʃwɨ ɛʒɛmərit̞), is a Kan-Kaijin language spoken by approximately 98,573,712 native speakers primarily in the Korat region of Western Assai, where it is the official language in over ten countries. Closely related to the Assai Language, Emrit features a number of distinctive phonological and grammatical features from its southern neighbor produced as a result of the mixed ethnic and cultural heritage of the Korat itself, having seen repeated invasion by a number of distinct and unrelated ethnic and linguistic groups. As such, Emrit as it is spoken today is a very diverse language and exhibits some of the greatest dialectal variation in any language of Western Assai, with speakers from opposite ends of the Sy-Korati Emrit Dialect Continuum finding it virtually impossible to understand one another.

Sample Texts

Qhashaar!

EXCLAM

Hello!

Eja

1.VB

Is

Runły

GEN

name-of

di

1.PRO

I

Hjantaar

NOM

Hjantaar

kaa

CNJ

and

tsiker

1.VB

lives

di

1.PRO

I

Samataru.

FOC-LOC

Samatar-in

Qhashaar! Eja Runły di Hjantaar kaa tsiker di Samataru.

EXCLAM 1.VB GEN 1.PRO NOM CNJ 1.VB 1.PRO FOC-LOC

Hello! Is name-of I Hjantaar and lives I Samatar-in

'Hello! My name is Hjantaar and I live in Samatar.'