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===Ossiryem Coscivians=== | ===Ossiryem Coscivians=== | ||
===Pine Swamp Coscivians=== | ===Pine Swamp Coscivians=== | ||
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| | | name = Pine Swamp Coscivians | ||
| | | image = [[File:Flag of Maine (1901–1909).png|300px]] | ||
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| | | type = Communitarian | ||
| | | population = | ||
| | | era = Antetraversal | ||
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| | | ethnogenesis = | ||
| stonk = Akuvaric | |||
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| | | language = Pineswamp Jargon | ||
| | | religion = Coscivian Orthodox | ||
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| | | endogamy = Yes (also moietic) | ||
| | | lifestyle = | ||
| | | pda_status = Far Backward | ||
| | | colour = {{wp|Buff}}, Tan | ||
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| | | region = Eastern Seaboard | ||
| orig_state = [[Trinatria]] | |||
| | | dias_state = [[Niyaska]], [[Perth Amboy]] | ||
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The '''Pine Swamp Coscivians''' are a socially insular and poorly-understood endogamous social group comprising some eight clans who traditionally inhabit poorly-drained pinelands and some coastal wetlands along the Eastern Seaboard of Great Kirav. Six of the eight clans live in | The '''Pine Swamp Coscivians''' are a socially insular and poorly-understood endogamous social group comprising some eight clans who traditionally inhabit poorly-drained pinelands and some coastal wetlands along the Eastern Seaboard of Great Kirav. Six of the eight clans live in Trinatria, while the remaining two live in South Niyaska. Each clan has a {{wp|moiety|moïetic}} relationship with one of the other clans, with men from one moïetically-paired clans only marrying women from the other clan, and vice-versa. | ||
The Pine Swamp Coscivians are thought to be primarily descended from early Taństan and mainland Akúvaric Coscivian colonists in Kiravia. Their | The Pine Swamp Coscivians are thought to be primarily descended from early Taństan and mainland Akúvaric Coscivian colonists in Kiravia. Their speech appears to be a heavily {{wp|mixed language}} with Kalvertan, Iforian, and (esp. in Niyaska) Kir lexical influence, which is unintelligible to neighbouring non-swamp Kalvertan, Iforian, and Old Niyaskan families. | ||
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