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===Sea Coscivians===

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The ''lingua franca'' among Sea Coscivians is Maritime Coscivian, a {{wp|mixed language}} based on some form of [[Costratic Coscivians#Language|Costratic Coscivian]] and drawing vocabulary from other major littoral languages during early Postclassical times. Maritime Coscivian was originally used in ports all across the Coscivian world and by sailors of all backgrounds; however, the Sea Coscivians alone adopted it as their native language, and today the knowledge of the tongue survives only among Sea Coscivians and veterans of the [[Kiravian Navy]]. Due to the dispersed and peripatetic disposition of its speech community, Maritime Coscivian as spoken by Sea Coscivians is an extremely fractured language with numerous dialects that sometimes strain mutual intelligibility. The speech patterns of more traditional sea-dwelling or isolated island-dwelling Sea Coscivians can constitute distinctive micro-dialects and familects. Certain dialects - such as Dialect 12a spoken mainly among Clan Korellin in the [[Kilikas Sea]] - are regarded as more conservative, deviating comparatively little from what linguists believe was spoken by the Sea Coscivians who sailed with Kedhur Valēkas. Others, best exemplified by Dialect 46b of a particular neighbourhood in Mirśamur, [[Melian Isles]], are highly divergent, exhibiting a much more synthetic morphology than most dialects and a lexicon replete with unique coinages and loans from Melote, Arabic, Latin, Pashto, Daxian, Rumeli, [[Angeline language|Angeline]], and Punthite tongues. Although studies of the worldwide Sea Coscivian community are too difficult to carry out, surveys of Sea Coscivians living ashore in Kiravia show that almost all are bilingual or multilingual. Many Sea Cosivians today speak Kiravic Coscivian or Austral Coscivian as their native language, and some of these second-language speakers may have only a limited command of Maritime Coscivian.

Sea Coscivians have had mixed relations with other Coscivians and with non-Coscivian groups they encounter. Historically, settled port and coastal dwellers throughout the Coscivian world have been distrustful of Sea Coscivians as secretive and seemingly rootless drifters with a reputation for criminality and general unpleasantness. According to reports by governmental organisations and human rights NGOs, people of Sea Coscivian origin still face employment, housing, and other forms of discrimination. They have low levels of engagement with formal institutions such as labour unions, religious congregations, banks, and governments compared to other Coscivian groups, and according to a study funded by the government of Valtéra State, they are the ''tuva'' most heavily involved in the {{wp|informal economy}} and face social problems arising from their reliance on unstable and thinly regulated employment.

The settled Sea Coscivian population is almost entirely urban, concentrated in and around major ports. Valēka has the largest population of Sea Coscivians in Kiravia (and presumably the world), officially numbering over 72,000. Tolôn has the second-largest Sea Coscivian population, followed by Saar-Silverda, Bérasar, Destransar, and Sirana.

====Tropical Sea Coscivians====