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Inkuv

High Coscivian
High Coscivian
Itiarona
Region	Coscivian Empire
Native speakers	Less than 1,000
Language family	Cosco-Adratic Kasavic-Koskan Varakoskan Southern Carolina North Carolina Whole Hog High Coscivian; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Standard forms	Classical Coscivian; Ecclesiastical Coscivian; Traditional-Regular; Modern-Reform;
Writing system	Coscivian script
Official status
Official language in	[Some shithole]; [Some other shithole]; [Sicily];
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

In countries of Coscivian heritage, an inkuv is a type of way station along a roadway. The inkuv originated during the First Coscivian Empire as a feature of the First Empire's Verticalist economic system, which required infrastructural innovations such as well-maintained overland roadways to facilitate the state-directed redistribution of goods and labour.

Many cities and towns have grown out from an inkuv as their nucleus.

The constitution of the Confederal Republics of Kirav explicitly granted the confederal government authority to build inkuya along postal and defence roads. This authority was retained under subsequent Kiravian constitutions and remains today, although modern inkuya along the interstate highways are owned and maintained by individual federal subjects.

In modern Kiravia, an inkuv is a highway rest stop or travel plaza, though often with features and amenities that hearken back to earlier inkuya. Inkuya along modern Kiravian interstate highways typically include a small nondenominational chapel.

Demomap

Demomap (Kiravic: Demomāv gen. Demomapsk, High Coscivian: Demomaṿra) is an indeterminate location of interest to Coscivian prehistory and dark philology, with great significance to reconstructing the chronology of the peopling of Great Kirav. It is a recurring element in Coscivian traditional histories and mythologies, and features prominently in the origin myths and oral histories of numerous Kiravian ethnic groups, many of whom hold Demomap to have been their ancestral homeland.

The name Demomap is also used in modern academia to refer to the point of origin for the Mesolithic, non-Levanto-Sarpic migrants from Levantia to Great Kirav who contributed [haplotype] to the Kiravian gene pool. In this context, Demomap is merely an artful term of convenience, and scientists stress that Y-Chromosomal Demomap may or may not bear any relation to the literary/traditional Demomap.

The questions of where and when Demomap is have vexed Coscivian scholars for hundreds of years, and the modern scientific quest for the "historical Demomap" has been fraught with ambiguities and complications.

According to Dr. Jumbuck Jones, Y-Chromosomal Demomap was probably located (wholly or primarily) on the territory of modern-day Faneria.

Demomap is often used in idiomatic expressions by Kiravians. For example, a

Xides é rædur skúl? - "Where's your brother?"
Des Demomav. - "Where Demomap?"

Things named after Demomap:
-A space shuttle
-Several counties
-A vacation resort
-A casino in Paulastra probably

Duties of the Federal Subjects

Regular convocation of a deliberative body to exercise the rights, duties, and functions assigned to state legislatures under this Constitution (incumbent upon states only).
Maintenance of a well-regulated militia to be made available for the defence of the Federacy
Maintenance of a system of household registration

High Coscivian

High Coscivian is the classical language of Coscivian civilisation.

Origins

To say that the exact nature, historical origins, and genealogical classification of High Coscivian have been hotly debated since the dawn of historical linguistics would be the understatement of the petrasēga. More than one war has been fought over this topic.

Excepting a few fringe holdouts hidden in the classics departments of third-tier state colleges in backwater inland provinces, Coscivian and Occidental scholars agree that High Coscivian is a Trans-Kiravian language and must be considered a primary branch of the Trans-Kiravian family in the absence of any known direct ancestors. The long-extinct Sʑvoʎatellic language, which is only sparsely attested, is accepted to be its sister language and closest known relative.

There exists a somewhat esoteric debate among Dark Philologists as to whether High Coscivian developed from a spoken natural language or was constructed ab initio as a ritual language. The use of contrived languages for ceremonial and religious purposes was not uncommon among ancient Kiravian peoples, and continues today in some Urom tribes. The (now asemic) ritual incantations used by paopatra practitioners are another possible analogue. A perhaps more plausible theory than the ancient conlang thesis is that the liturgical High Coscivian of ritual chants upon which the literary language was based contained elements of a contrived initiatory ritual language integrated into a polished register of the natural spoken language.

Phases:
Old High Coscivian - From earliest times to [whatever marks classical era]
Classical Coscivian - Yes
Imperial Coscivian - From the Xth Empire until the Kilikas Enlightenment. Subdivided into Living Imperial (until the spoken correlate of High Coscivian presumably died out) and Zombie Imperial (purely literary phase thereafter).
Modern High Coscivian - Since Kilikas Enlightenment.

Written Registers

Classical + Neoclassical
Ecclesiastical (Slight differences between Orthodox and Catholic recensions)

Traditional-Regular-Conservative family
Reform-Modern-Open family
Irregular/Regional/Specialised written forms

Descendants

The spoken form of High Coscivian would evolve to the point of diglossia with the written language into a tongue retronymously dubbed General Costratic by linguists. During the Postclassic, General Costratic would dissolve into a dialect continuüm that would give rise to the modern Costratic languages, including Paisonic Coscivian, Valosian Coscivian, Sidereal Coscivian, and others.

Lexicon

Archæic stratum: Adratic, Cyptovian; more sparsely/speculative Odoneran, others? Ancient/Classical loan stratum: Iavthei Coscivian/Ancient Eskean Coscivian, Thygiastran Coscivian, Stairovic Coscivian, Cyptovian. Shaftonic coinages also in this stratum yeah.

Postclassical/Imperial Stratum More new coinages, more recherché pretentious coinages and constructions, more loands soaked up from vernacular languages. Influence of Christian literature: Translation challenges, calques, loans from Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Gaelic.

Modern Stratum: Varies by register. Neoclassicists loans to the maximal extent possible, also many words of later coinage and "post-classical spirit". Even try to avoid borrowing proper names to a significant extent. Traditional/Conservative/Regular writing is less purist but still avoids neologisms. Reform/Modern writing is more open to neologisms, reïmports/elevations, and does not bother with continuity of spirit so much. Lib writing kinda does whatever it wants.

Modern Use

Academia

[Scholarly writing, Higher education, Shaftonist scholarship, Scientific and technical applications, Diplomas, Classical Universities]

Religion

[Liturgical language of the Coscivian Orthodox and Coscivian Catholic churches. Probably also Coscivian religions, right?]

Law & Government

[Law, Gov't documents, Imperial ceremonies, Household registers]

Modern Literature

[Modern literature]

Other

[Mottos, maxims, proverbs]
Ornamental use.

Education

High Coscivian is a required subject in most academic (college-oriented) secondary schools. At elite high schools, vernacular language, literature, and composition are dispensed with entirely, in favour of exclusive study of High Coscivian.

Catholic and Orthodox Sunday schools also teach the basics of High Coscivian so that children can learn to understand the liturgy.

High Modern revivalist movements in the Renaissance Party and their status today.

Translingual Applications

[As a Translation Matrix/Interlingual applications/Linguistic neutrality]
High Coscivian is regularly employed as a matrix for the translation between Coscivian vernacular languages. As all literary languages in the Coscivian cultural sphere have been translating texts both to and from High Coscivian and have well-established paradigms for doing so, filtering text through High Coscivian during the translation process is found to improve accuracy, reduce ambiguity, and improve the syntactic and stylistic quality of translations.

Sarolasta

[In Sarolasta]
Somewhat surprisingly, given the archipelago's remoteness from the traditional lands of the Coscivian Empire and the mostly Austronesian ancestry of its population, contemporary use of High Coscivian is especially vigorous in Sarolasta. Sarolasta is home to X indigenous Austronesian languages, and no one vernacular language predominated among the Coscivian colonists in the Sarolastan islands - Kalvertan, Kiravic, Hekko-Southern, Maritime Coscivian, Paisonic, Lusan, Kerēgulan, and others were used in one settlement or another. The centrality of the Coscivian Catholic Church as a religious and cultural institution and the main provider of education in Sarolasta engendered the proliferation of High Coscivian as the primary medium for interethnic formal communication and publishing. Sarolasta has four High Coscivian daily newspapers, whereas Great Kirav only has one.

Native Speakers and Speech Community

For [a very long time] High Coscivian has subsisted primarily in writing.

The Eight Highfalutin Lineages (High Coscivian: Name here namehere) are noble patrilines dating verifiably from the [Last iteration of the] Empire (and unverifiably claiming descent much further back than this) who conserve High Coscivian as their native tongue and home language. With an enumerated population of 612, they are among the smallest Coscivian ethnic groups recognised by the Kiravian Census. Although the Eight Lineages claim to preserve an unbroken chain of native speakers reaching back to time immemorial, most scholars believe that no spoken language mutually intelligible with Classical Coscivian survived past [ERA], and that the Template:Wkt spoken among the Eight Lineages appear to be derived from the postclassical written High Coscivian of the [Xth] Empire, and were probably acquired by their progenitors during this era.

Scattered instances of native High Coscivian speakers exist outside of the Eight Lineages. Of verified cases, none are the product of sustained intergenerational transmission, and in most the extent to which High Coscivian is used as a home language is less than advertised.

Beyond the miniscule number of native speakers, there exists a much larger contemporary speech community made up of second-language speakers using the language orally. [contexts in which?]

Statistics

How many Kiravians have...? - Some knowledge? - Elementary command? - Intermediate command? - Strong command? - Full fluency? - Intermediate/Strong in college but since got rusty?

Knowledge of High Coscivian correlates with education level, caste, class. Ethnic groups speaking languages descended from Imperial Coscivian pick it up better, obvi.

Stuff in High Coscivian

Colour Wars

The Colour Wars were series of low- to medium-intensity civil conflicts that were fought in various locations across Great Kirav, though mostly in its easterly regions, from [YEAR] to [YEAR].

Analysis: The Colour Wars represented a condition of profound disunity and dissension at all levels of Kiravian society, going beyond mere class conflict or the broad ideological, sectional, or racial divisions underpinning most proper civil wars and complicated by myriad localised communal conflicts and fractured élites. Delegitimisation of public authority and the governing powers was also important. The conflicts spurred the growth of political movements such as Coscivian nationalism, Political Shaftonism, and Kirosocialism that advanced new ordering principles to unify Kiravian society and provide renewed purpose to politics.

Historiography: The historiography of the colour wars remains contentious. Western writings on the conflict and the official Kirosocialist historiography established as orthodoxy under the Kiravian Union both emphasise the class dimension of the conflict.

Politics of Etivéra

Etivéra has a coalitional presidential pattern of politics similar to that of the Kiravian federal government, in which policy is shaped by the independently elected Governor's efforts to build a pro-administration majority coalition in the legislature by agreeing to a common agenda.

Post-Kirosocialist Etivéra has a political landscape dominated by three major party-groups that serve as both legislative caucuses and electoral alliances. These are the Coalition for a New Etivéra (Shaftonist-democratic, conservative-liberal, and pro-SRA), Change to Win Coalition (Kirosocialist, left-wing populist, and pro-PDF), and Popular Front (Christian-democratic, centrist, and pro-CSU). As no group ever wins an outright majority in its own right, majority coalitions are usually formed by agreement between the Popular Front and either of the two other groups (sometimes with smaller parties or independents involved), or by any one of the major groups obtaining the support of smaller parties, independents, and (only rarely) dissident members of the other major groups.

Federal Astronomical Calculator

The Federal Astronomical Calculator (Rektārkax Iselrakénax Karabistuv) is a supercomputer cluster located in Eregion, Hanoram, outside of Kartika, and operated under the ægis of the Federal Spaceflight Authority. The National Astronomical Calculator Programme was initiated in 211XX under the Kiravian Union, and has undergone several complete hardware overhauls as decades have gone by. Originally intended for calculations in astrophysics, astrometrics, and aerospace engineering, the FAC is now used for a wide array of civilian governmental applications, including weather and climate modelling,

Constitutional Law of Kiravia

The Constitutional law of Kiravia (Coscivian: Stórnoálda, literally "metalaw" or "law of laws") comprises the Fundamental Statute of the Kiravian Federacy (Livnifîlon Kiravix Rektārká), the Statute of Liberties (Fîlon Helviskya), binding rulings and tōngan (judicial consensus) by constitutional courts, and unwritten conventions, customs, and traditions governing the configuration and operation of the Kiravian polity.

Federal Districts Commercial Control Act & Repeal Thereof

The Federal Districts Commercial Control Acts were a series of Kiravian federal (and confederal) legislation enacted for the purpose of restricting commercial activity in the nation's two federal districts, the [[District of Coīnvra] and the Interlake District.

The selection of Kartika (then merely a medium-sized town) as the federal capital of Kiravia and the demarcation of the lands surrounding it as a federal district separate from any state and subordinate directly to the Stanora was an uncontroversial agreement that was believed to balance the interests of more northerly and southerly parts of the new federation and ensure the capital city's political neutrality. However, as the size of the [federal or confederal? probably federal but not sure] government and the scope of its power expanded and Kartika began to grow into a proper city along with it, concerns arose that Kartika would eventually become a primate city and the country's premier economic centre, eclipsing the other major cities at the time, Bérasar, Valēka, Eriadun, and Primóra. The states abutting the Disctict of Coīnvra - Hanoram and Ventarya - feared that merchants from their states would relocated to the capital district and deprive them of tax revenue. More principled concerns were raised in the newspapers of the day that the emergence of Kartika as a "new Era" would lead to harmful political centralisation and even - in more impassioned letters - the end of the Republic and a return to Verticalism.

The first Act, the District of Coīnvra Commerce Control Act, forbade merchants operating from the District from engaging in international trade and from selling goods to customers in the states or to Aboriginal tribes. Merchants already trading from the district under existing licenses could continue to operate in the town of Éamonsar and the parish of Arþodun, subject to taxation and regulation by Hanoram (in Éamonsar) and Ventarya (in Arþodun).

The Interlake District Commercial Ordinance was born of similar concerns - that it would create a federally-controlled national economic core which would depress the growth potential of other cities in the Inland Seas region, and that it would deprive surrounding states and territories of revenue. However, its issuance was more contentious than the District of Coīnvra Commerce Control Act had been, as many in the federal government felt that such a city would be beneficial for the economic development of the region and for maintaining federal authority and political cohesion as the Inland Seas began to rival the Eastern Seaboard economically. Some, such as [XYZ Lacuna], thought that a new federal capital should be established in the district, as it was more centrally-located on the island continent.

Repeal -

Most provisions of the acts were repealed under the Rénkédar administration. This occurred in a prevailing political climate favourable to economic liberalisation and enhancing freedom of trade and movement. However, it is accepted that the primary impetus for repeal was the severe downturn in the Capital District's economy and standard of living that had accompanied the post-Kirosocialist downsizing of the national government. It was hoped that lifting restrictions on private enterprise in the district would help to alleviate unemployment, crime, and urban decay.

Legacy - The effects of the Acts are still visible in the District of Coinvra. The district's economy is dominated by government and the service sector. Heavy industry and the architectural and social legacies thereof remain entirely absent from the city, and a handful of medium-sized commercial breweries are its largest manufacturing operations by workforce and units of output. Most other industrial enterprises are small operations dedicated to the manufacture of knowledge-intensive high-value-added specialty goods, such as telescopes, diving watches, and custom computer components.

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