Hurbanovan English

Hurbanovan English is a form of Lovian English which is used in the town of Hurbanova.

History
Hurbanovan English formed around the year 1900. In the beginning it was a mixture of English, Slovak, Polish and some other languages. This language was called Oceane and still lives today. Because it was more usefull to speak English, the official language of Lovia, many people started to use English as a second or third language. Because there first language often was Oceana, Slovak or Polish, their English was heavily inflewenced by those languages. It formed Hurbanovan English as we know it today.

Characteristics
Hurbanovan English is known because of the following things:
 * 1) Borrowings from Oceana; like nash (problems), tyne (shadow), usile (effort)
 * 2) -o-, like in harbor, government, becomes -oi-, haboi, goivemen
 * 3) [t] or [d] at the end of words is sometimes not pronounced, so called t-deletion, dylek (dialect) wind (win)
 * 4) A vowel can't follow a vowel, it will become a diphtong. dialect -> dylek, idea -> idai
 * 5) /ɑj/ is pronounced as /ɛi/ and /ɔi/ is pronounced as /ə/
 * 6) The /r/ is often dropped, execpt if it is at the beginning of a syllable. har-bor -> ha-boi, train -> tain, where -> wèi. Remember: rain -> rain, hund-red -> hun-rath.

Adverbs
Adverbs are made using adjective + l, for example bad - badly is bèi - bèil.

Example

 * The Kingdom of Lovia o Lovia is a soivereign palaimentary constitushenal monachy in the Nothen Pacific Ocean. The capital an mose populois city of Lovia is callth Noble City. The populashen of this cointy is mosel of Noth American an Europain orige. Thèi a aboi 20,000 inhabitans. The reignin' monach is King Dimitri I. Lovia is a foime membe of the Uniteth Wiki Nashes.

Language vs Dialect
As with many minority languages, the language versus dialect battle is also commonly practiced with Hurbanovan English. Though the Oceana dialect is usually considered to be a language, because of it's major differences in both grammar and vocabulary, Hurbanovan English is not. This is because of the enormous regularity within the sound changes, like t-deletion and r-dropping, it's mutual understandability with English, the grammar does not show significant differences to English and the language yet does not have any state or recognisition anywhere. --OWTB 12:59, 10 June 2008 (UTC)