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To say that the exact nature, historical origins, and genealogical classification of High Coscivian have been hotly debated since the dawn of historical linguistics would be the understatement of the ''[[Coscivian calendar|petrasēga]]''. More than one war has been fought over this topic.

Excepting a few fringe holdouts hidden in the classics departments of third-tier state colleges in backwater inland provinces, Coscivian and Occidental scholars agree that High Coscivian is a Trans-Kiravian language and must be considered a primary branch of the Trans-Kiravian family in the absence of any known direct ancestors. The long-extinct Sʑvoʎatellic language, which is only sparsely attested, is accepted to be its sister language and closest known relative.

There exists a somewhat esoteric debate among Dark Philologists as to whether High Coscivian developed from a spoken natural language or was constructed ''ab initio'' as a ritual language. The use of contrived languages for ceremonial and religious purposes was not uncommon among ancient Kiravian peoples, and continues today in some [[Urom]] tribes. The (now asemic) ritual incantations used by ''[[paopatra]]'' practitioners are another possible analogue. A perhaps more plausible theory than the ancient conlang thesis is that the liturgical High Coscivian of ritual chants upon which the literary language was based contained elements of a contrived initiatory ritual language integrated into a polished register of the natural spoken language.