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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]], and the [[Saxalin Islands|Saxalins]], as a disproportionately large number of traders, sailors, whalers, and early emigrants hailed from the Svéa Coast. Svéaran is notable for its nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alignment, 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]], and the [[Saxalin Islands|Saxalins]], 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 Béyasar. 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. | ||
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*'''Highland Kiravic''' is spoken in the general region of the Eastern Highlands, as well as overseas colonies settled by emigrants from this region. It borrows heavily from Celtic and Aboriginal languages and is notable for its nasal vowels and distinct cadence. | *'''Highland Kiravic''' is spoken in the general region of the Eastern Highlands, as well as overseas colonies settled by emigrants from this region. It borrows heavily from Celtic and Aboriginal languages and is notable for its nasal vowels and distinct cadence. | ||
*''' | *'''Telmarine Kiravic''' is spoken in and around [[Cities of Kiravia#Telmar|Telmar]], [[Ventarya]]. Kalvertan Coscivian is the prevailing language of the surrounding area, but was supplanted by Kiravic after the city became the operational hub of the Kiravian Navy. Although it is located far south of the Southern Kiravic dialect belt, Telmarine Kiravic is in fact an outlying Northern dialect, reflecting the influence of the many navy yard workers relocated from Valēka. It is also heavily influenced by Svéaran Kiravic and by Maritime Coscivian. | ||
*'''Xirayic''' is spoken in | *'''Xirayic''' is spoken in [[Xirya]], where it is formalised and used for official purposes. One notable feature is the pronunciation of the adjectival ''-x'' suffix as ''-s'', erasing any phonetic distinction between adjectives and adverbs. This is causes mild to moderate confusion for speakers of other dialects. | ||
==Usage== | ==Usage== | ||