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The majority and first official language of the Melian Isles is {{wp|Greek language|Istroyan}}. Each island is regarded as having its own subdialect of Melian Istroyan, which in general differs from other Istroyan dialects due to linguistic drift and the influence of other languages, particularly Audonian and Coscivian languages. | The majority and first official language of the Melian Isles is {{wp|Greek language|Istroyan}}. Each island is regarded as having its own subdialect of Melian Istroyan, which in general differs from other Istroyan dialects due to linguistic drift and the influence of other languages, particularly Audonian and Coscivian languages. | ||
The Eteo-Melotic language spoken in | The Eteo-Melotic language spoken in the environs of Ephesus by the Jethrovians is {{wp|Lemnian language|poorly classified and treated provisionally as an isolate}}, but has been influenced by Koiné Istroyan, Romance languages, Histan, and latterly by Coscivian. Despite its obscurity and numerically small speech community, Eteo-Melotic has a literary corpus of considerable size and age, though the Jethrovian clerical authorities do not allow most of their scriptures to be studied by outsiders due to a history of persecution. | ||
===General culture and demographics=== | ===General culture and demographics=== | ||