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==Society & Culture== | ==Society & Culture== | ||
The Kiravian Union inherited a multifarious society with an ancient Coscivian heritage and a complex patchwork of nesting and overlapping ethnic, linguistic, religious, tribal, regional, and local identities and communities, easily interpreted as either a vibrant and pluralistic country with a strong {{wp|civil society}} or - as was the view of the Kirosocialist Party - an overly particularistic society with deeply entrenched parochial, caste, class, and local rivalries and antiquated traditions that arrested social and economic progress and the development of {{wp|class consciousness}} and a modern {{wp|civic culture}}. The concept of socialism as a cultural framework and not a mere economic system was central to Kirosocialism, and... | |||
===Language=== | ===Language=== | ||
Based on the belief that linguistic diversity was a hindrance to national and proletarian unity and that diglossia among multiple dialects and literary registers of Kiravic was a retrograde holdover from the country's hierarchical past, the Kirosocialist government vigorously promoted monolingualism among the Coscivian population, suppressing regional, local, and ethnic vernaculars and the levelling of Kiravic dialects. It also curtailed the use of [[High Coscivian]] in higher education and the publication of new books in the language, in addition to banishing High Coscivian formulae from state ceremonies and quietly scrapping High Coscivian mottoes of government agencies. In order to promote literacy in the sole national language among non-native speakers and purge Kiravian letters of perceived bourgeois and reactionary elements, the Union promoted the use of [[Kiravic_Coscivian#Written_Registers|Standard Kiravic]], a different written standard from traditional Literary Kiravic designed to be more regular, more "modern", and more accessible to the less educated and non-native speakers. Although these policies had only a limited effect on major regional languages like Southern Coscivian and West Coast Marine Coscivian, their impact on ethnic languages spoken in the cities was considerable. Even many urban centres in non-Kiravic-speaking areas, such as [[Béyasar]] and [[Saar-Silverda]], became mainly Kiravic-speaking during this time. | Based on the belief that linguistic diversity was a hindrance to national and proletarian unity and that diglossia among multiple dialects and literary registers of Kiravic was a retrograde holdover from the country's hierarchical past, the Kirosocialist government vigorously promoted monolingualism among the Coscivian population, suppressing regional, local, and ethnic vernaculars and the levelling of Kiravic dialects. It also curtailed the use of [[High Coscivian]] in higher education and the publication of new books in the language, in addition to banishing High Coscivian formulae from state ceremonies and quietly scrapping High Coscivian mottoes of government agencies. In order to promote literacy in the sole national language among non-native speakers and purge Kiravian letters of perceived bourgeois and reactionary elements, the Union promoted the use of [[Kiravic_Coscivian#Written_Registers|Standard Kiravic]], a different written standard from traditional Literary Kiravic designed to be more regular, more "modern", and more accessible to the less educated and non-native speakers. Although these policies had only a limited effect on major regional languages like Southern Coscivian and West Coast Marine Coscivian, their impact on ethnic languages spoken in the cities was considerable. Even many urban centres in non-Kiravic-speaking areas, such as [[Béyasar]] and [[Saar-Silverda]], became mainly Kiravic-speaking during this time. | ||