Demographics of Mustelaria
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The languages of Mustelaria include zonal constructed language named Neo-Mustelarian, which is de jure the official Lingua franca, Zhoushi, which is the Lingua franca in Zhousheng and Belgorian, which is the Lingua franca in Monte Blanco.
Many local minority languages are also in official use on local level and are recognized as official languages of their respective areas
Language distribution
Mustelaria officially recognizes 13 nationalities as a "national nationalities", which are officially not a minority, but are recognized as a nationalities, which have somewhere in Mustelaria an area, where they are a majority or plurality.[1] Those nationalities are defined as "...being either more than 15 million people spread across Mustelaria or being more than half a million inhabitants localized in a certain area, where they have to be a plurality...", however, nationalities are "...defined by people themselves and are not associated to a language, but the a internal feeling of each individual...", so the national identity is tied to a feeling rather than to a cultural or linguistic base, although people are encouraged by official documents to consider the language they speak.
| Ethnic distribution of Mustelaria | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Color | Nationality | Language family | Population (in Mustelaria) |
| Zhoushi (Bogmian, Zhengian) | Slavic | 121 Million | |
| Belgorian | 108 Million | ||
| Slovanic | 19 Million | ||
| Karaalani | 18 Million | ||
| Gorgavian | 4 Million | ||
| Louzen (Haldenian) | 2 Million | ||
| Arasatian | 1 Million | ||
| Velpan | 1 Million | ||
| Ulevan | 1 Million | ||
| Storvani | 0.5 Million | ||
| Zaprei, Preimeai, Phná[2] | Prei-Phnom | 9 Million | |
| Aschari | 0.7 Million | ||
| Gradi | Germanic | 6 Million | |
| Borelian | None (Language isolate) | 0.6 Million | |
| Tghok | Mokhaic | 0.5 Million | |
| Neuew, Agarn | Sivuk | 0.5 Million | |
- ↑ Ulevans are given their position as they are a notable plurality in many Slovanic areas and their numbers are probably higher as they mostly identify themselves as Ulevan-speaking Slovans. Neuews are given the status based on a treaty with Neuewland, which gave Storvan to Zhousheng
- ↑ Laws set by the autonomous constitution of the Zaprei Autonomy prohibits division of the Prei-Phnom nationalities on census ballots into Zaprei, Preimeai and Phná, as that could bias autonomous leaders. It is generally expected, that the biggest representation is Zaprei with the second biggest being Phná