Pintus Language

Pintus is the most widely spoken Producer Lanugage and the official language of The Producers.

History
Pintus was the official language of the Pintus Empire founded by Emperor Kwame. In the first few hundred years of this Empire, most of the continent of Apa. As a result of this, most languages spoken after the First Empire were of the Pintus Family of Languages.

The spread of the Ancients' Societies eastwards through the colonial conquests of Ipina caused a spread of Pintic languages across the Eastern Continent.

Through cultural hegemony and trade, Pintus became the most widely spoken language in Producer society.

Alphabet
The Pintus Alphabet has 20 letters shown below. It is normally written in capital letters on official documents, although an informal cursive form exists.



The alphabet can be expanded through a number of ways to allow for new sounds. Letters which are circled become softened. For example, the K sounding letter becomes a 'ch' sound when circled. 'Squaring' vowels, the last 5 letters of the alphabet, elongates them turning 'o' into 'oo' and 'e' into 'ee'. As a result the alphabet contains 40 letters if circling and squaring count as letters.



Elongated consonants are held for slightly longer than normal consonants. For example, if the M in 'Hummer' was elongated the word would be pronounced like 'Humm-er'. This allows for some words to be changed slightly and makes this an easy language to make puns in.

Spellings are made phonetically and so it is acceptable for there to be more than one spelling of the word depending on the dialect. Dialects are all mutually intelligible but will make use of squared and circled letters at different points.

The Producer Number system works in 10s, just like on Earth. Numbers, unlike letters, tend to have a rounded shape. The exception to the rule is 0, which is represented in a score shape.