Hazam language

Hazam
Хазамска
Native to	Hazamaeia
Ethnicity	Hasnunians
Region	Nimtahe (northeastern)
Native speaker	10.7 million (2011 est.)
Language family	Northeastern Nimtahe Hasnu-Fostralaque Hasnunian
Writing system	Hazamaeian Cyrillic
Code	hz hzm
Official status
Official language in	Hazamaeia
Regulated by	Hazamaeian National Office of Writing Systems and Languages (DNRQH)

The Hazam language (Хазамска, Fihanta transliteration: Hazamska) is a language from the northeastern region of the world of Nimtahe. It is the national language and the sole language of federal administration of Hazamaeia. It is estimated that there are more than 10 million native Hazam speaker—mostly concentrated in the Hazamaeian states of Hasnunia, Votskad, and Plovossnaia—with about 40 million other as second language speakers.

Classificaton

Hazam is an agglutinative language. It is with Fostralaque and several other languages in Galnayuk and Lugudia in the Northeastern Nimtahe language family.

Dialects

There are a number of Hazam dialects: Hasnunian, Upper Rtav, Ndosian, Mountain, Norther Mountains, Upper Plovossnaia, Lower Plovossnaia, and Upper Fostralaq. Dialects mostly differ in words rather than pronunciation. The dialect used for the national language is a standardized Hasnunian dialect.

Usage

Hazam has the official status in all of the states and provinces in Hazamaeia. The standardized dialect is regulated by the Hazamaeian National Office of Writing Systems and Languages (Hazam: DNRQH) of the Minister of Science, Education, and Culture.

According to 2011 estimation from the Hazamaeian National Office of Writing Systems and Languages, there are about 10,659,512 native speakers nationwide, mostly live in the northeastern part of the country where the language is native to. 40 million people are estimated to use it as their second language.

Phonology

Consonants

Nearly any consonant may be an ejective and/or combined with another consonant to in groups. Example is consonant group [ks], [kn], [kt], and [mn]/[nm].

Vowels