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==Society & Culture== | ==Society & Culture== | ||
====Ancestry==== | ====Ancestry==== | ||
====Religion==== | ====Religion==== | ||
Before the arrival of Christianity, the predominant worldview on the islands was {{wp|Pythagoreanism}}. | |||
====Language==== | ====Language==== | ||
The Melotic language is {{wp|Lemnian language|poorly classified and treated provisionally as an isolate}}, but has been influenced heavily by Koiné Istroyan, Romance languages, Histan, and latterly by Coscivian. | |||
===General culture and demographics=== | ===General culture and demographics=== | ||
The | The people of the Melians are predominantly apostolic Christians, with some of the earliest known Christian congregations having been planted there by the Apostles. | ||
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