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The national language of Takatta Loa is known as Insuo Loa, and is spoken as a native language by almost every citizen of Takatta Loa, although several dialects do exist. However, there are several smaller languages spoken throughout the nation. These tend to be the descendents of the Pre-Loa Polynesian languages spoken by the modern day Non-Loa Polynesians, as well as the language spoken by the Ancestral Loa, who still speak it as a mother tongue. Arabic is the largest second language in Takatta Loa, spoken primarily by Loa Muslims, with around 25 million people speaking Arabic as a second language. There has also been a movement to revive the pre-Loa mainland languages, to limited success. It has mostly gained traction among the Safa Loa and the Highland groups. Old Safa has been adopted as a second language by around 40,000 people and a third language by 160,000 people since revival efforts began in 1995. There are around 1,000 people with Old Safa as a native language. Paiyatulu, a formerly extinct language in the northern highlands, has been the most successful, being adopted by 600,000 people and has been acknowledged as a regional language in the Kanu’aua Region, the first instance of an officially recognized regional language in Takatta Loa. There has also been an effort to revitalize the Polynesian scripts that were in use until around 1830, though this has seen limited success. Only Paiyatulu has implemented a non Loa script due to the presence of multiple phonemes not found in the Loa script | |||
====Insuo Loa==== | |||
Insuo Loa is the official and national language of Takatta Loa, spoken by 99.9% of the population as their first language. It is a Polynesian language, considered its own distinct branch descended from the Polynesian Strait Branch unlike the mainland Polynesians who constitute the Vallosian Branch. It developed in the Loa Islands from around 800 CE to 1500 CE and is written in the Loa Script, developed in the 1700s by the Imperial Regime in response to the mainland scripts. It drew influence primarily from the script used in the [[Kapuhenasa#Anahuenna|Anahuenna]] and from Arabic. It is a semi logo-syllabic script, with around 100 logographic characters representing particles, articles, pronouns and determiners, and approximately 59 syllabic characters, although there are 15 variants that are modified from three syllables to account for sounds that are viewed as "variants" on other sounds, such as the velar nasal being represented as a variant of the alveolar nasal and the glottal fricative being a variant on the fricative labial. These are not allophones however, as Insuo Loa has no allophones. Each syllabic further has a special form for how it joins to its nearby syllables, similar to Arabic. This means that there are around 309 characters, syllabics and their variants. | |||
Its phonology has similarities to other Polynesian languages and to Proto-Polynesian but with two exceptions being the uvular trill and palatal fricative. Further, it lost the glide and gained an additional alveolar plosive. It could also be interpreted as keeping its l/r distinction with both the alveolar lateral and the uvular trill being present, but this is contested by linguistic scholars. It also allows for several end consonants which are extremely uncommon in Polynesian languages. This is attributed to the relative isolation of the Loa leading to significant divergences in language phonology and morphology. | |||
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