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The Sea Coscivians are a seafaring Coscivian ethnosocial group. Perhaps the most geographically dispersed of the Coscivian peoples, Sea Coscivians can be found in port cities across the Kiravian Federacy and other Coscivian countries, living permanently aboard ships in the world's oceans, and in any number of non-Coscivian countries the world over, where they have arrived as merchants and seamen. Though their ethnogenesis remains shrouded in mystery, Sea Coscivians as a distinct social group are most commonly thought to have arisen from guilds and mutual aid brotherhoods formed by merchant seamen in Éorsa during the Second Empire or Second Inter-Imperial Period. From the Third Empire onward, they contributed to the overseas expansion of Coscivian civilisation, the migrations to Ixnay, and later the establishment of the Kiravian maritime commercial and colonial network. | The Sea Coscivians are a seafaring Coscivian ethnosocial group. Perhaps the most geographically dispersed of the Coscivian peoples, Sea Coscivians can be found in port cities across the Kiravian Federacy and other Coscivian countries, living permanently aboard ships in the world's oceans, and in any number of non-Coscivian countries the world over, where they have arrived as merchants and seamen. Though their ethnogenesis remains shrouded in mystery, Sea Coscivians as a distinct social group are most commonly thought to have arisen from guilds and mutual aid brotherhoods formed by merchant seamen in Éorsa during the Second Empire or Second Inter-Imperial Period. From the Third Empire onward, they contributed to the overseas expansion of Coscivian civilisation, the migrations to Ixnay, and later the establishment of the Kiravian maritime commercial and colonial network. | ||
Traditionally, the Sea Coscivians speak Maritime Coscivian, a {{wp|mixed language}} with vocabulary drawn mostly from the Coscivian languages of the Intheric Sea, that became a ''lingua franca'' among Coscivian sailors during the Postclassical Era. Although at that time Maritime Coscivian was used in ports all across Éorsa and the Coscivian colonies, and by sailors of all backgrounds, Sea Coscivians alone adopted it as their native language and today the language only survives among Sea Coscivians. Due to the dispersed and peripatetic disposition of its speech community, Maritime Coscivian as spoken by Sea Coscivians is an extremely fractured language with numerous dialects, often with very limited mutual intelligibility. The speech patterns of more traditional sea-dwelling or isolated island-dwelling Sea Coscivians can constitute distinctive micro-dialects and familects. Certain dialects - such as Dialect 12a spoken mainly among Clan Korellin in the [[Kilikas Sea]] - are regarded as more conservative, deviating comparatively little from what linguists believe was spoken by the Sea Coscivians who sailed with Kedhur Valēkas. Others, best exemplified by Dialect 46b of a particular neighbourhood in Mirśamur, [[Melian Isles]], are highly divergent, exhibiting a much more synthetic morphology than most dialects and a lexicon replete with unique coinages and loans from Melote, Arabic, Latin, Pashto, | Traditionally, the Sea Coscivians speak Maritime Coscivian, a {{wp|mixed language}} with vocabulary drawn mostly from the Coscivian languages of the Intheric Sea, that became a ''lingua franca'' among Coscivian sailors during the Postclassical Era. Although at that time Maritime Coscivian was used in ports all across Éorsa and the Coscivian colonies, and by sailors of all backgrounds, Sea Coscivians alone adopted it as their native language and today the language only survives among Sea Coscivians. Due to the dispersed and peripatetic disposition of its speech community, Maritime Coscivian as spoken by Sea Coscivians is an extremely fractured language with numerous dialects, often with very limited mutual intelligibility. The speech patterns of more traditional sea-dwelling or isolated island-dwelling Sea Coscivians can constitute distinctive micro-dialects and familects. Certain dialects - such as Dialect 12a spoken mainly among Clan Korellin in the [[Kilikas Sea]] - are regarded as more conservative, deviating comparatively little from what linguists believe was spoken by the Sea Coscivians who sailed with Kedhur Valēkas. Others, best exemplified by Dialect 46b of a particular neighbourhood in Mirśamur, [[Melian Isles]], are highly divergent, exhibiting a much more synthetic morphology than most dialects and a lexicon replete with unique coinages and loans from Melote, Arabic, Latin, Pashto, Daxian, Rumeli, [[Angeline language|Angeline]], and Punthite tongues. Although studies of the worldwide Sea Coscivian community are too difficult to carry out, surveys of Sea Coscivians living ashore in Kiravia show that almost all are bilingual or multilingual. Many Sea Cosivians today speak Kiravic Coscivian or Austral Coscivian as their native language, and some of these second-language speakers may have only a limited command of Maritime Coscivian. | ||
Sea Coscivians have had mixed relations with other Coscivians and with non-Coscivian groups they encounter. Historically, settled port and coastal dwellers throughout the Coscivian world have been distrustful of Sea Coscivians as secretive and seemingly rootless drifters with a reputation for criminality and general unpleasantness. According to reports by governmental organisations and human rights NGOs, people of Sea Coscivian origin still face employment, housing, and other forms of discrimination. They have low levels of engagement with formal institutions such as labour unions, religious congregations, banks, and governments compared to other Coscivian groups, and according to a study funded by the government of Valtéra State, they are the ''tuva'' most heavily involved in the {{wp|informal economy}} and face social problems arising from their reliance on unstable and thinly regulated employment. | Sea Coscivians have had mixed relations with other Coscivians and with non-Coscivian groups they encounter. Historically, settled port and coastal dwellers throughout the Coscivian world have been distrustful of Sea Coscivians as secretive and seemingly rootless drifters with a reputation for criminality and general unpleasantness. According to reports by governmental organisations and human rights NGOs, people of Sea Coscivian origin still face employment, housing, and other forms of discrimination. They have low levels of engagement with formal institutions such as labour unions, religious congregations, banks, and governments compared to other Coscivian groups, and according to a study funded by the government of Valtéra State, they are the ''tuva'' most heavily involved in the {{wp|informal economy}} and face social problems arising from their reliance on unstable and thinly regulated employment. | ||