Calian language
| Calian Language | |
|---|---|
| Oăggia Chaoăna | |
| Pronunciation | [ˈo̯ə.ɟ͡ʝä c͡çäˈo̯ə.na] |
| Native to | Autonomous region of Calia |
| Ethnicity | Calians |
Native speakers | estimated 3.7 million (2021) |
Euclean
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Early forms | |
| Solarian (Calian alphabet) | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Calia Tengaria |
Recognised minority language in | |
| Regulated by | Acciademoea dha Oăggia Chaoăna (Calian Language Academy) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | co |
| ISO 639-2 | coa |
| ISO 639-3 | coa |
Calian (Calian: Chaoăn /ˈc͡çä.o̯ən/, Tengarian: ???? /????/) also known as the Calian Language (Calian: Oăggia Chaoăna /ˈo̯ə.ɟ͡ʝä c͡çäˈo̯ə.na/, Tengarian: ???? /????/) is a South Solarian language spoken by the Calian people in the autonomous region of Calia, in eastern Tengaria. The language is an official national language, as constitued by the Tengarian Constitution of 1957. The language is spoken by minorities across Tengaria, western Amathia, and southern Bistravia. Calian is classified as a threatened language, which means that the language is not deeply defused amongst the Calian people, though still used to some degree in regional affairs, education, and households.
The rise of the Empire of Arciluco marked the rise of Old Calian in the historical region of the Kaloí people. The language defused as a vernacular of the Classic Solarian spoken by the Empire, and it was. Only after the fall of the Realm of Thorns, in the 15th century, Tengarian and Marolevian languages started to influence Old Calian. Middle Calian rose as it absorbed a great deal of vocabulary and sounds from Old Church Marolevic. The biggest traits of Middle Calian are the series of palatalization that occurred across the Marolevian languages as well as the adoption of Marolevian vocabulary, and eventually the adoption of the Pavaric script. Up until the late 18th century, the Solarian script was still fairly used amongst Calians, but the push from Tengarian nationalists in between the 18th and 19th century pushed the Calians to reject the Pavaric script and try to reestablish their alphabet as the standard in the region. This period marked Middle Calian to simplify most of its Marolevian sounds, which altogether resulted in the development of the Modern Dialect spoken by the people today.
Following the fall of the Tengarian Empire in 1935, the rise of Simeon Kovachev, and the birth of the Tengarian Republic, the Calian language became a target for the patriots. For instance, the government enforced the Tengarian script and the Tengarian language as the sole official language in Calia, which rapidly drove the number of speakers down. Such oppression led the Calian language to border extinction, if it was not for the Tengarian Constitution of 1957 establish it as a recognized national language. From then, schools started to teach the language in schools, and the younger generation started to incorporate the language in their daily lives. Though the language is still not as flourishing as it was once, there are numerous efforts from Calians and Tengarians to preserve the language in households and schools, encouraging people to speak, read, and write in the local language. Calian media has also been increasingly using Calian as opposed to Tengarian, which has also been helping raising the Calian language out of the "threatened languages" category. Local politics has also become a ground for the reflourishing of the Calian language, as the official language of the regional assembly is Calian since 1989.
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i y | u | |
| Close-mid | e ẽ | o õ | |
| Middle | ə | ||
| Open | ä |