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Languages of the Infernorian Archipelago
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Menu 1. GNI Languages 2. Zuryuttic Languages 3. Language Isolates


The Infernorian archipelago, being relatively isolated, is a linguistic goldmine. There are representatives of multiple language families on Infernor, as well on many isolates. The language family with the most representatives is the Greater Northern Infernorian family, spoken in Infernor's northern, eastern, and western regions, as well as on the smaller islands. The most linguistically diverse region is the south of Infernor, where native languages coexist with the colonizing Eartheoran and GNI families.

[edit] [top]GNI Languages

Western GNI
 Byjan
Byjan is a language spoken in and around the city of Byja. It is the most learned and most spoken of the Western branch.
 Unknown [BY2]
Southern Byjanic is a language spoken just below the range of standard Byjan, in the thinly spread deciduous forests leading up to the Spirit Woods. It differs in its cases, having gained an additional two, possibly as a result of interaction with native languages that display over ten separate cases. These two cases are the comitative and possessive (which differs from the genitive in that it specifies that something is directly owned by something else).
 Mugmur
Mugmur is spoken by the Mugmur people in the western foothills of Ridgeback Mountain.
 Akothsu
Akothsu is a maritime Western GNI language spoken on the Akoth Archipelago. It has some strange phonological features, atypical of other GNI languages save for its neighbor, Kalujei.
 Kalujei
Kalujei is the neighbor of Akothsu, spoken to the southwest on the Kaluj Peninsula.
 Hama
Hama is the southernmost GNI language, spoken around the Hama Delta, and in the city of Hamahash. It has lost several of the cases retained by other GNI languages.

Northern GNI
 Sesian
Sesian is spoken on the Sesian Peninsula, in the city of Sesi and its surrounding area. It is the most conservative GNI language in its phonology and grammar, retaining Proto-GNI's original five cases, none more and none less. The language itself is written in Hiragana as a result of centuries of Japanese occupation, and it is regulated heavily by a central language bureau operating out of Sesi.
Sesian is required learning for anyone applying to the Byjan and New Camp City Foreign Services.

Eastern GNI
 Tugaran
Tugaran is spoken in the Steel Mountains by the Tugar people. It, like some of its Western sister languages, has borrowed grammatical features from its non-GNI neighbors. It has borrowed a record five cases: the comitative, semblative, essive, instrumental, and instructive cases.
 Unknown [TQQ]
Toqaqa, while extinct, is a ritual language for many, especially Ed'Dellso, a cult and terrorist organization dedicated to creating a theocracy based around the worship of the titular deity.

[edit] [top]Zuryuttic Languages

 Zuryuttic
Zuryuttic is spoken in Eartheor, the southernmost of the three large islands. It is an isolating, tonal language spoken by over a million native Zuryuts.

[edit] [top]Language Isolates

 Iceoran
Iceoran is spoken on the southern and eastern coast of Iceor (the inner land is almost completely uninhabited save for fugitives and miscellaneous undiscovered tribes). It is a highly agglutinative language with a great abundance of cases, perhaps the most native cases out of any archipelago language. As Iceor is sparsely populated, there is little dialectal variation on the mainland; the most dialects arise on some of the coastal island clusters.
 Klaletian
Kaala is spoken on the Isle of Kaalu, a small island fifty miles off the coast of Iceor, and forty-three miles off the course of Infernor. It is written with the Katakana syllabary due to Japanese influence. Unlike the majority of languages of the archipelago, Kaala has only two cases: nominative and accusative.
 Unknown [RDM]
Rdaml is spoken in the Rda Valley, at the very northern edge of the Steel Mountains, by only 490 Rda tribespeople. The Rda Valley is split between Sesi to the west, and the Toqar People's Republic to the east. In the TPR, the linguistic rights of Rdaml speakers are preserved in the constitution; however on the Sesian side, aggressive language policies have slowly dwindled the number of native Rdaml speakers, and most now speak Sesian. In a survey fifty years ago, 2,480 reported speaking Rdaml as a mother tongue. This means Rdaml usage has dropped by just over 80% in five decades. A Tugaran career school is currently offering classes in Rdaml to Tugarans of Rda descent.
 Nedan
Ndre is spoken in the inner mountain ranges of Eartheor. A sparsely populated and semi-arid region roughly along the same latitude as southern California, the Sa'a mountains are home to the Ndre people, nomadic hunter-gatherers with special Eartheoran government protection. As their territory has been relatively untouched, the vast majority of Ndre are monolingual. Ndre itself is unusual for its inventory of laterals, and its highly synthetic grammar, in an area largely dominated by the isolating Zuryuttic languages.
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