Mede-Lorecian languages
| Mede-Lorecian | |
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| Geographic distribution | Western and Northern Lorecia and the Mederano Peninsula |
| Linguistic classification | One of Astyria's primary language families |
Early form | Proto-Mede-Lorecian
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| Proto-language | Proto-Mede-Lorecian |
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The Mede-Lorecian languages (also known as the Franco-Arlethic languages, from French les langues franco-arléthiques) are a language family of several related languages and dialects, linking the Arlethic languages, Francien languages, and Mederanic languages. Mede-Lorecian languages are spoken predominantly in Western and Northern Lorecia and on the Mederano Peninsula in Teudallum.
Proposals for a Mede-Lorecian language family began appearing as historical linguists from the Académie Fédérale, inspired by the successful application of recent innovations in comparative linguistics to the reconstruction of Proto-Franco-Arlethic (usually called Proto-Lorecian in English) in the 1900's, expanded the scope of their comparative studies to include Mederanic languages spoken in Nikolia. In Haguenau, the name franco-arléthique (Franco-Arlethic) continues to be used even after the inclusion of the Mederanic languages, however in English the name "Mede-Lorecian" is more common.
A hypothesis popular outside of Haguenau (e.g. Ferre & Wexter (2011)) is that Mederanic split from proto-Mede-Lorecian significantly earlier than the split between Francien and Arlethic. Francien and Arlethic are consequently often grouped as a single branch, Lorecian. In contrast, scholars in Haguenau believe that the split occured at roughly the same time, and they use a three-way split of Mede-Lorecian into Mederanic, Francien, and Arlethic.
Haguenauvian historians believe that the Proto-Mede-Lorecians originate from the territory presently occupied by Haguenau and Noordenstaat, and split around roughly the same time into the Mederanics who moved across the Putin Strait and into the Mederano Peninsula, the Arlethians who moved north to Arlethia (Northern Lorecia), and the Franciens, who settled in the present-day territory of Haguenau. This theory is controversial as no archeological evidence of a Proto-Mede-Lorecian people has ever been found, and the Arlethic findings in the region indicate that they moved from Northern Lorecia southwards, in the direction opposite to the Haguenauvian hypothesis.