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*'''Svéaran Kiravic''' - Native to the Svéa Coast and its hinterlands, over parts of Kiygrava and Harma, as well as most of Bissáv, this dialect was spread to [[the Cape]], [[Paulastra]], the [[Saxalin Islands|Saxalins]], and part of [[Cartadania]] as a disproportionately large number of traders, sailors, whalers, and early emigrants hailed from the Svéa Coast. Svéaran is notable for its atypical nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alignment (attributed to a Anderan substrate), and for the strong Taństan influence on its phonology and vocabulary. | *'''Svéaran Kiravic''' - Native to the Svéa Coast and its hinterlands, over parts of Kiygrava and Harma, as well as most of Bissáv, this dialect was spread to [[the Cape]], [[Paulastra]], the [[Saxalin Islands|Saxalins]], and part of [[Cartadania]] as a disproportionately large number of traders, sailors, whalers, and early emigrants hailed from the Svéa Coast. Svéaran is notable for its atypical nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alignment (attributed to a Anderan substrate), and for the strong Taństan influence on its phonology and vocabulary. | ||
*'''Urban Northeastern Kiravic''' dialects are spoken in large, multi-ethnic urban areas in traditionally Taństan-speaking Northeastern states, such as | *'''Urban Northeastern Kiravic''' dialects are spoken in large, multi-ethnic urban areas in traditionally Taństan-speaking Northeastern states, such as Bérasar. Kiravic displaced Taństan as the main language of daily life and inter-ethnic communication in these cities during the Kirosocialist era. Formed on a foundation of written Standard Kiravic as taught in schools, its spoken form reflects the influence of Taństan (for example, having a {{wp|progressive aspect}}) as well as diverse lexical influences from the ethnic languages of its speakers, including Gaelic and other Levantine languages spoken by the substantial Levantine-Kiravian communities in these cities. | ||
*'''Upper Kiravic''' is spoken in north-central and northwestern Great Kirav, and borrows extensively from Central and North Coscivian languages. It has a rather singsong cadence and always distinguishes for animacy in third-person pronouns. | *'''Upper Kiravic''' is spoken in north-central and northwestern Great Kirav, and borrows extensively from Central and North Coscivian languages. It has a rather singsong cadence and always distinguishes for animacy in third-person pronouns. | ||