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==Society== | ==Society== | ||
[[File:Bermuda - St. Peter's Church main steeple in St. George - panoramio (1).jpg|thumb|Architecture in Ardmore - Note the 24-hour clock rather than the 20-hour clock used in Coscivian areas]] | [[File:Bermuda - St. Peter's Church main steeple in St. George - panoramio (1).jpg|thumb|Architecture in Ardmore - Note the 24-hour clock rather than the 20-hour clock used in Coscivian areas]] | ||
Ardmore has an {{wp|Insular Celtic}} culture with noticeable traces of | Ardmore has an {{wp|Insular Celtic}} culture with noticeable traces of Pretannic influence from early in its history, shaped by local geographic and climatic conditions, the Catholic faith, and contact with [[Coscivian civilisation]] by virtue of its status as a Kiravian federal subject. The state is rather homogeneous: 88% of the population of New Ardmore are ethnic Gaels. Most of the remainder are Coscivian-Kiravians or of Levantine backgrounds other than Gaelic. Ardmorean Gaelic, which is largely though not fully mutually intelligible with the varieties spoken in the Kiravian Gaeltacht, Faneria, and Fiannria and contains many archæic and endemic features, is spoken by 85.6% of the population as a first language. Kiravic Coscivian is an auxiliary official language and is widely understood in urban areas, though most long-term Coscivian residents in the islands find it necessary to learn Gaelic to get by. | ||
Most Ardmorean Gaels do not have static surnames and are identified instead by patronymics and clan names (e.g. ''Séamus Mac Néill Ó Séaghdha'', "Séamus, son of Neil, of the clan Séaghdha [lit. 'grandson of Séaghdha']"), whereas most other Gaelic communities, including those in Great Kirav and most - if not all - of Levantia, have converted such names into conventional surnames. | Most Ardmorean Gaels do not have static surnames and are identified instead by patronymics and clan names (e.g. ''Séamus Mac Néill Ó Séaghdha'', "Séamus, son of Neil, of the clan Séaghdha [lit. 'grandson of Séaghdha']"), whereas most other Gaelic communities, including those in Great Kirav and most - if not all - of Levantia, have converted such names into conventional surnames. | ||