Kiravic Coscivian: Difference between revisions

Proper nouns are subject to the same declension rules as common nouns. By convention, one declines a Coscivian personal name by changing the surname only (e.g. "The office of [[Irasur Mérovin]]" would be ''adikuv Irasur Mérovi'''sk''''' rather than ''adikuv Irasursk Mérovin''), with the forename treated as a {{wp|noun adjunct}}. Similarly, when declining a compound geographic name such as [[Xýzyro|Mount Xýzyro]] (''Nár Xýssyrov'') or the River Kiygrava (''Rurin Kiygrava''), only the general noun is declined while the specific appellation remains unchanged (''Nárē Xýssyrov'', ''Rurinst Kiygrava''). Foreign names and brand names that cannot be readily Coscivised can be fit into the structure of a Kiravic sentence using auxiliary prepositions like ''áu'' ("of") and ''ōs'' ("as"), but most style guides for formal writing encourage using the indeclinable name as an adjunct to an appropriate Kiravic common noun. For example, "There was a fire in [[Gulnaz]]" (the capital of [[Kayistan]]) would be translated as ''Lé spóre '''sarēs''' Gulnaz'' ("There was a fire '''in the city''' of Gulnaz").

*'''Kandan Kiravic''' is native to the parts of upstate [[Kiygrava]] surrounding the city of [[Cities of Kiravia#Evira|Evira]], as well as communities of [[Ethnic Groups in Kiravia#Kandem Coscivians|ethnic Kandan]] populations in other parts of Northern Kirav and the Colonies.

*'''Svéaran Kiravic''' - Native to the Svéa Coast and its hinterlands, over parts of Kiygrava and Harma, as well as most of Bissáv, this dialect was spread to [[the Cape]], [[Paulastra]], the [[Saxalin Islands|Saxalins]], and part of [[Cartadania]] as a disproportionately large number of traders, sailors, whalers, and early emigrants hailed from the Svéa Coast. Svéaran is notable for its atypical nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alignment (attributed to a Anderan substrate), and for the strong Taństan influence on its phonology and vocabulary.