The Ostlandic language (in Ostlandic: Ostlandisk sprek) is the official language of Ostland. It is a Germanic language, specifically of the branch of West Scandinavian languages, spoken by over 19 million people, mainly in Ostland and Northern Europe.
History[]
Ostlandic language is a descendant of Old Norse language, which was spoken by Vikings when they arrived to the Ostlandic islands. It was classified as a Insular Scandinavian language along with Faroese and Icelandic. Its writing system is Latin Alphabet, introduced in 16th century.
Geographic distribution[]
The Ostlandic language is spoken mainly in Scandinavia, in the Northern Europe. It is the Official and national langage of Ostland, where it is the first language of 96% of the population, and the restant 3.9% of the population can undestand it. Its learning is mandatory for school subjects, and its the main working language for the government.
In Norway, it is spoken by about 730,000 people, mainly in main cities like Oslo. It is also spoken in: Sweden (532,290), Denmark (201,120), the United Kingdom (189,244), the U.S. (98,540), Germany (30,450), Iceland (23,453), Finland (12,000), among others. It is recognized as a minority language in Norway, United Kingdom and Sweden.
Basics[]
Ost grammar[]
Grammar in the Ost language is the same as in the Norwegian language. When the Academy of the Ostlandic language made the Written form of the language (Days after of his foundation, in 1831), it used the Norwegian grammar as a base and in the final product, no changes were made, making the Ost and Norwegian really mutually intelligible.
In the beginning, the Academy of the Ostlandic language developed a written form of what they called Low Ostlandic. This was termed as an earlier phase of the language, but was later "promoted" to Dialect, because it was shown that the Ostlandic spoken in Mallerfield was already given by extinct Low Ost.