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===Language=== | ===Language=== | ||
{{Main|Fhasen}} | {{Main|Fhasen}} | ||
The Fhasen language is the legal and de facto language of Faneria, and is descended from an agglomeration of local dialects which were condensed into an administrative language by [[Cywir Suthar-Màrtainn]] in the 18th Century. As a result, the language is [[International Council on Fhasen Conventions|heavily regulated and standardized]], and is not mutually intelligible with other Gaelic-descent languages. Other languages, including Julian Aenglish, Namhene, Caeric, Coscivian, and Faeskt, are spoken regionally. In 2030, census records indicated a 73% rate of multilingualism, with approximately 24% of the population self-describing as speaking three languages or more on a conversational level, typically including both Fhasen and Aenglish. | |||
===Religion=== | ===Religion=== | ||
Faneria has a long history of religious toleration marred by periods of religious persecution, selective privileges towards groups such as Aenglish settlers, and reactive religious lockdown under the early Republic. Christianity was originally introduced to the country in the form of syncretic faiths, with mainstream Christian faith becoming a plurality within the Ninerivers region prior to the first local Crusades in the 12th Century AD, where faith was used mainly as a casus belli for larger lowlands states to subjugate highland clans. The Catholic Church was the predominant faith afterwards, though the country briefly switched between a lax Catholic monarchy and several state-supported Protestant sects during the [[First Princes' War|First]] and [[Second Princes' War|Second Princes' Wars]]. Afterwards, Catholicism was officially instated as the state religion, though exceptions would be created for Aenglish Protestants, who arrived in droves on the invitation of later monarchs, as well as a blind eye being turned towards the few pagan practices extant in the various interior mountain ranges of the country. | Faneria has a long history of religious toleration marred by periods of religious persecution, selective privileges towards groups such as Aenglish settlers, and reactive religious lockdown under the early Republic. Christianity was originally introduced to the country in the form of syncretic faiths, with mainstream Christian faith becoming a plurality within the Ninerivers region prior to the first local Crusades in the 12th Century AD, where faith was used mainly as a casus belli for larger lowlands states to subjugate highland clans. The Catholic Church was the predominant faith afterwards, though the country briefly switched between a lax Catholic monarchy and several state-supported Protestant sects during the [[First Princes' War|First]] and [[Second Princes' War|Second Princes' Wars]]. Afterwards, Catholicism was officially instated as the state religion, though exceptions would be created for Aenglish Protestants, who arrived in droves on the invitation of later monarchs, as well as a blind eye being turned towards the few pagan practices extant in the various interior mountain ranges of the country. | ||