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{{Life in Imagua and the Assimas}}
The '''Surrowese language question''' ({{wp|Germanic languages|Tyrnican}}: ''die Sprachfrage'') was a linguistic and political controversy in the [[Rythene|Rythenean]] colony of [[Surrow]], which lasted from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, over the status of {{wp|Germanic languages|Tyrnican}} in the colony, and whether or not it should be a co-official language of the colony alongside {{wp|English language|Rythenean}}.
Every ten years, [[Statistics Imagua]] conducts a nationwide census to collect data on each person in order to find out information about the people residing in [[Imagua and the Assimas]], in order for the government to not only find out what the country is populated by, but also redistribute constituency boundaries for the [[Lesser House of Imagua and the Assimas|Lesser House]] of the [[Parliament of Imagua and the Assimas|Imaguan parliament]], and determine who would be eligible for certain governmental programmes.


==Population==
==Background==
{{Historical populations
From the late fifteenth century, [[Auressia|Auressian]] fishermen began flocking to the rich fishing waters around Surrow's coast, with most of the fishermen coming from [[Rythene]] and [[Tyrnica]]. As more fishermen established permanent settlements from the middle of the sixteenth century, it led to the creation of a "linguistic and political checkerboard" on [[Holcot Island]] where {{wp|English language|Rythenean}}-speaking and {{wp|Germanic language|Tyrnican}}-speaking {{wp|Newfoundland outports|outports}} would exist next to each other, with the respective outports being under either Rythenean or Tyrnican law depending on who owned the outport.
|type =
|footnote = Source: Estmerish colonial census (1821-1931), Etrurian colonial census (1821-1941), Imaguan census (1941), Imaguan and Assiman census (1951-present)
|1821 | 932768
|1831 | 953869
|1841 | 973425
|1851 | 994526
|1861 | 1020591
|1871 | 1051624
|1881 | 1072668
|1891 | 1106623
|1901 | 1126834
|1911 | 1168789
|1921 | 1207346
|1931 | 1216412
|1941 | 1238467
|1951 | 1181390
|1961 | 1221840
|1971 | 1255057
|1981 | 1197131
|1991 | 1251588
|2001 | 1286463
|2011 | 1317613
|2021 | 1344679
}}
As of the 2021 census, the population of [[Imagua and the Assimas]] is measured to be at 1,344,679 people, making it among the smallest countries in [[Asteria Superior]], albeit compared to the rest of the island nations in the [[Arucian Sea]], Imagua is among the more average in terms of population size.


The population has generally grown slowly, with it generally being attributable to the rates of {{wp|emigration}} to either [[Euclea]] or to Asteria Superior, especially [[Eldmark]], as to this day, there are not as many jobs in Imagua and the Assimas compared to other countries.
Conflicts between the outports and fishing rights contributed to the [[Eleven Years' War]], during which time Tyrnica briefly controlled the entire Surrowese archipelago from 1750 after its victory at the [[Battle of Holcot Inlet (1750)|first Battle of Holcot Inlet]] until 1758 when Rythenean forces secured two victories at [[Battle of Holcot Inlet (1758)|Holcot Inlet]] and [[Battle of Klinerhaven|Klinerhaven]]. After the end of the Eleven Years' War in 1759, Tyrnican fishermen in Surrow were allowed to continue living in the outports under the condition that they pledged allegiance to the [[Monarchy of Rythene|Rythenean crown]] "with all the same rights as a Rythenean fisherman who lives on the Surrows."


===Age distribution===
Although some Tyrnophones, particularly Tyrnican officials and Tyrnican merchants left the colony, most of the Tyrnophone population in Surrow chose to stay on the island and accept Rythenean rule, particularly the fishermen who resided in the outports.
As of the 2011 census, the age distribution of Imagua and the Assimas is arranged thusly:


<center>
==Beginnings of the language question==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
In the aftermath of the Eleven Years' War, some Tyrnican speakers, particularly Tyrnican officials who ran the settlements and Tyrnican merchants who did most of their trade with Tyrnica's colonies, left Surrow. However, many Tyrnican speakers living on Surrow opted to pledge loyalty to the Rythenean crown, with most of them wanting to maintain access to the fishing grounds around Surrow.
|-
! Age !! Females || Males || Total || Percent
|-
! 100+
| 5,105 || 1,702 || 6,807 || 0.52%
|-
! 95-99
| 12,791 || 6,394 || 19,185 || 1.47%
|-
! 90-94
| 18,940 || 12,626 || 31,566 || 2.42%
|-
! 85-89
| 27,003 || 26,563 || 53,566 || 4.10%
|-
! 80-84
| 29,966 || 29,869 || 59,835 || 4.58%
|-
! 75-79
| 34,815 || 34,630 || 69,445 || 5.32%
|-
! 70-74
| 38,307 || 38,278 || 76,585 || 5.86%
|-
! 65-69
| 41,975 || 41,958 || 83,933 || 6.42%
|-
! 60-64
| 41,303 || 41,282 || 82,585 || 6.32%
|-
! 55-59
| 45,070 || 45,059 || 90,129 || 6.90%
|-
! 50-54
| 45,725 || 45,722 || 91,447 || 7.00%
|-
! 45-49
| 48,005 || 47,998 || 96,003 || 7.35%
|-
! 40-44
| 49,983 || 49,983 || 99,966 || 7.65%
|-
! 35-39
| 46,751 || 46,744 || 93,495 || 7.16%
|-
! 30-34
| 44,349 || 44,347 || 88,696 || 6.79%
|-
! 25-29
| 48,345 || 24,368 || 72,713 || 5.57%
|-
! 20-24
| 35,426 || 17,713 || 53,139 || 4.07%
|-
! 15-19
| 24,007 || 24,010 || 48,017 || 3.67%
|-
! 10-14
| 15,691 || 15,713 || 31,404 || 2.40%
|-
! 5-9
| 14,791 || 14,793 || 29,584 || 2.26%
|-
! 0-4
| 14,195 || 14,210 || 28,405 || 2.17%
|-
! Total
| 682,543 || 623,962 || 1,306,505 || 100.00%
|}
</center>


Thus, the 2011 census shows that 52.2% of the population, or 682,543 people are female, while 47.8% of the population, or 623,962 people are male. As well, as of 2011, the median age of Imaguans is at 50.96 years, as over half of the population is fifty years or older.
The colonial government made Rythenean the sole official language of the colony in the aftermath of the war and imposed [[Rythene#Law|Rythenean law]] across the colony, although [[Josiah Yates]] noted in 1762 that there was "very little effort or appetite by the government of these islands to try and promote the Rythenean language" in the newly-acquired settlements, and warned the colonial government that "if no effort is taken to integrate the Tyrnican fishermen into the body politic, they will behave as those they still control the Surrows."


==Ethnicity==
(TBC)
[[File:Perfect_black_pride_guy_(7107944497).jpg|150px|thumb|left|Two [[Bahio-Imaguans]] at a pride parade, 2011]]
As of the 2021 census, Imagua and the Assimas over 1.3 million inhabitants. The three main groups are the [[Bahio-Imaguan people|Bahio-Imaguans]], comprising around 80% of the population, or 1,072,905 people, the [[Coian-Imaguans]], who comprise around 8% of the population, or 107,285 people, and the [[Eucleo-Imaguan people|Eucleo-Imaguans]], which comprise about 7% of the population, or 93,638 people. The remaining 5% of the population, or 70,851 people, are either [[Senrian people|Senrians]], recent immigrants, or [[Native Imaguan people|native Imaguans]].
 
The Bahio-Imaguans are descendants of {{wp|slaves}} brought in from [[Bahia]] by the various colonizers which have ruled over the archipelago in the [[Transvehemens slave trade|triangle trade]]. Over the generations, the Bahio-Imaguans developed their own identity separate from their original identities back in Bahia, as they were shaped by the life in Imagua and the Assimas.
 
The Coian-Imaguans are descendants of [[Gowsa|gowsas]], and to a lesser-extent, [[Satria|Satrian]] {{wp|indentured servants}} who were brought in following the abolition of slavery in the Estmerish Empire in 1795. The Coian population would develop a unique identity separate from their [[Dezevau|Dezevauni]] and [[Kabu|Kabuese]] ancestors.
 
The Euclo-Imaguans are descendants of [[Euclea|Euclean]] settlers. The two largest Euclo-Imaguan groups are [[Etrurian-Imaguans]], who are descended from [[Etrurian people|Etrurian]] migrants, and comprise around five percent of the national population (59,828 people), and [[Estmerish-Imaguans]], who are descended from [[Estmerish people|Estmerish]] migrants, who comprise around two percent of the national population (26,554 people). The remainder of the Euclean population (4,587 people) come from a wide variety of ethnic groups, with the most prominent of these being the [[Emessa|Emessan]] and {{wp|Swedish people|Geatish}}-descended individuals.
 
As of the 2021 census, 5% of the population belong to other ethnic groups, mostly deriving from immigrants from both [[Coius]] and the [[Asterias]], with the largest immigrant population, the [[Senrian people|Senrian-Imaguans]] comprising just 4% of the population, or 52,260 people. Only 0.5% of the population, or 6,532 people, are [[Native Imaguan people|native Imaguans]].
 
Ethnicity in Imagua is usually considered to be passed down matrilineally, meaning that a light-skinned person can be considered black if their mother is also considered black. On the [[Assimas Islands]], descendants of mixed-race unions are traditionally classified as ''misto'', although since the annexation of the Assimas in the aftermath of the Solarian War, all ''misto'' are classified as Bahio-Imaguans.
 
==Languages==
The two official {{wp|languages}} of Imagua and the Assimas are {{wp|English language|Estmerish}} and {{wp|Italian language|Etrurian}}.
 
As of the 2021 census, around 73% of the population, or 950,153 people, speak {{wp|English language|Estmerish}} on a regular basis, while around 23% of the population, or 352,756 people, mostly on the [[Assimas Islands]] speaks {{wp|Italian language|Etrurian}} on a regular basis. Only 3,596 people do not use either official language on a regular basis.
 
However, the most commonly spoken language in Imagua and the Assimas is [[Western Imaguan Creole]], an {{wp|Swedish language|Geatish-based}} {{wp|creole language|creole}}. As of the 2021 census, around 90% of the population, or 1,211,027 people, listed Western Imaguan Creole as their native language. Etrurian is natively spoken by 3.6% of the population, or 47,894 people, while Estmerish is natively spoken by 3% of the population, or 41,386 people.
 
Other native languages spoken besides Western Imaguan Creole and the official languages include [[Eastern Imaguan Creole]], spoken by 31,392 people, or around 2.3% of the population, [[Senrian language|Senrian]], at 0.6% of the population, or 8,838 people, and {{wp|French language|Gaullican}}, at 0.24% of the population, or 3,205 people, with 930 people speaking other languages.
 
==Religion==
[[File:TnT_Rio_Claro_St._Theresa's_RC_Church.jpg|250px|thumb|left|[[Saint David's Church, Cuanstad|Saint David's Church]], 2014]]
The most predominant religion in Imagua and the Assimas is [[Sotirianity]], with 92% of the Imaguan population, or 1,237,105 people reporting that they adhere to some form of Sotirianity as of the 2021 census.
 
The largest sects of Sotirianity in Imagua and the Assimas are the [[Solarian Catholic Church|Solarian Catholics]], comprising around 41% of the population, or 551,318 people. After the Solarian Catholic Church, around 31% of the population, or 416,851 people, adhere to the [[Embrian Communion]], followed by 14% being {{wp|Lutheranism|Gospelites}}, or 188,255 people. The remainder of the Sotirian population, at 80,681 people, or 6% of the national population, follow other denominations, such as the [[Episemialist Church]], the [[Brethren Church]], the [[Church of Caldia|Church of Caldia]], and smaller Amendist sects.
 
Of the remaining eight percent of the Imaguan population who are not Sotirians, three percent of the population, or 40,340 people, are {{wp|irreligious}}. Another three percent of the Imaguan population, or 40,329 people, are adherents to [[Badi]], one percent of the population, or 13,548 people follow [[Tenkyou]], and the remaining one percent of the population are split among other religions, with the most predominant of these being [[Ashram]], [[Zohism]], and [[Irfan]].
 
==Urbanization==
{{Largest cities of Imagua and the Assimas}}
 
As of the 2011 census, 1,228,115 people, or around 94% of the population live in urban areas, defined by the national government as an "incorporated settlement" with a density of more than five hundred people per square kilometer, and a population of more than 1,000 people. Of those, 678,408 people, or nearly 52% of the population live in the ten largest settlements alone, while 809,828 people, or nearly 62% of the population live in the twenty largest settlements.
 
The largest metropolitan area is the [[Cuanstad]] metropolitan area, with 589,922 people, or around 45.2% of the nation's population living in the metropolitan area, with the next largest, [[San Pietro, Imagua and the Assimas|San Pietro]] only having a population of 230,758 people, or 17.6% of the national population.

Latest revision as of 06:10, 9 December 2024

The Surrowese language question (Tyrnican: die Sprachfrage) was a linguistic and political controversy in the Rythenean colony of Surrow, which lasted from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, over the status of Tyrnican in the colony, and whether or not it should be a co-official language of the colony alongside Rythenean.

Background

From the late fifteenth century, Auressian fishermen began flocking to the rich fishing waters around Surrow's coast, with most of the fishermen coming from Rythene and Tyrnica. As more fishermen established permanent settlements from the middle of the sixteenth century, it led to the creation of a "linguistic and political checkerboard" on Holcot Island where Rythenean-speaking and Tyrnican-speaking outports would exist next to each other, with the respective outports being under either Rythenean or Tyrnican law depending on who owned the outport.

Conflicts between the outports and fishing rights contributed to the Eleven Years' War, during which time Tyrnica briefly controlled the entire Surrowese archipelago from 1750 after its victory at the first Battle of Holcot Inlet until 1758 when Rythenean forces secured two victories at Holcot Inlet and Klinerhaven. After the end of the Eleven Years' War in 1759, Tyrnican fishermen in Surrow were allowed to continue living in the outports under the condition that they pledged allegiance to the Rythenean crown "with all the same rights as a Rythenean fisherman who lives on the Surrows."

Although some Tyrnophones, particularly Tyrnican officials and Tyrnican merchants left the colony, most of the Tyrnophone population in Surrow chose to stay on the island and accept Rythenean rule, particularly the fishermen who resided in the outports.

Beginnings of the language question

In the aftermath of the Eleven Years' War, some Tyrnican speakers, particularly Tyrnican officials who ran the settlements and Tyrnican merchants who did most of their trade with Tyrnica's colonies, left Surrow. However, many Tyrnican speakers living on Surrow opted to pledge loyalty to the Rythenean crown, with most of them wanting to maintain access to the fishing grounds around Surrow.

The colonial government made Rythenean the sole official language of the colony in the aftermath of the war and imposed Rythenean law across the colony, although Josiah Yates noted in 1762 that there was "very little effort or appetite by the government of these islands to try and promote the Rythenean language" in the newly-acquired settlements, and warned the colonial government that "if no effort is taken to integrate the Tyrnican fishermen into the body politic, they will behave as those they still control the Surrows."

(TBC)

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