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<div style="float:left;margin:0.5em 0.9em 0.4em 0;">[[File:ZibaJaujejua.svg|150px]]</div> '''Ziba''' ([[File:ZibainZiba.png]], ''ziba'', {{IPA-all|ziba}}) is the {{wp|language isolate|only}} extant {{wp|language}} of the eponymous Zibaic language family. It originated in and is the main language in [[Dezevau]] and northern [[Lavana]], and also has legal recognition in [[Hacyinia]] and [[Carucere]]. It is spoken natively by over 200 million people, making it the fifth language in the world by native speakers, and a further 100 million or so speak it non-natively. Ziba originated in southwest Dezevau several millennia ago, possibly as a {{wp|contact language}}. It spread by {{wp|trade}} and {{wp|diplomacy}} among the region's city-states and other polities, as well as through {{wp|human migration|migration}}, and association with [[Badi]]. In the medieval period, in large areas of northern Southeast Coius, Ziba was used in {{wp|public sphere|public}}, {{wp|commerce|commercial}}, {{wp|politics|political}}, {{wp|religion|religious}} and diplomatic life, but coexisted with a variety of languages which were {{wp|first language|natively spoken at home}}, in circumstances of {{wp|diglossia}}. At least in southwest Dezevau and among some {{wp|social class|classes}}, however, it was also a domestic language. The [[Aguda Empire]], founded in 1476, established Ziba as the {{wp|official language}} throughout its territories, using it in {{wp|administration}}, spreading it through commerce, deepening its Badist association, and generally promoting it as part of its {{wp|cultural assimilation|assimilative}} policies. The state of diglossia collapsed across much of the Aguda Empire's territory, in favour of Ziba {{wp|monolingualism}}. Ziba acquired more ethnic-political implication as a result of the empire's policies. The Aguda Empire also conducted early efforts at {{wp|language reform}} and {{wp|language standardisation|standardisation}}, with the Ziba {{wp|dialect continuum}} converging considerably, and the {{wp|koiné language|koiné}} Agudan Ziba becoming the basis for virtually all later {{wp|prestige dialect}}s of Ziba. During the colonial and post-colonial periods, Ziba lost much of its status and reach outside of present-day Dezevau and Lavana, as colonial or other national languages were promoted instead. It remains an important regional language, with many of its neighbours retaining {{wp|loanword}}s from it, and it being the {{wp|working language}} of the [[Brown Sea Community]]. Ziba is an {{wp|agglutinative language}}, with a great deal of {{wp|affixation|suffixation}} to create new {{wp|noun}}s and {{wp|adjective}}s, sharing similarities in this with the neighbouring {{wp|Austronesian languages|Vehemenic languages}}. {{wp|Verb}}s, in comparison, exist simply within a SVO {{wp|word order|sentence structure}}. Ziba's possible roots as a {{wp|contact language}}, and its storied use as a {{wp|second language}} in the public sphere may be linked to its simple {{wp|grammar}} and small {{wp|phonemic inventory}}; it has twelve {{wp|consonant}}s and five {{wp|vowel}}s ({{wp|monophthong}}s, which can form a further twelve {{wp|diphthong}}s). Its inventory is unusual, however, in not having any {{wp|rounded vowel}}s, {{wp|unvoiced consonant}}s/{{wp|voice (phonetics)|voicing distinction}}, and a number of other features which are very cross-linguistically common. Most Ziba is written in the Ziba script (cf. [[Carucerean Ziba]]), which is somewhere between an {{wp|alphabet}} and an {{wp|abugida}}; it has had a very close {{wp|phonemic orthography|phonetic correspondence}} since the {{wp|orthography|orthographic}} reforms of the Aguda Empire. ('''[[Ziba|See more...]]''')
<div style="float:left;margin:0.5em 0.9em 0.4em 0;">[[File:Euclea_orthographic.png|150px]]</div> '''Euclea''' is a continent located entirely in the {{wp|Northern Hemisphere|Northern}} and {{wp|Western Hemisphere|Western}} Hemispheres of [[Kylaris]]. The name Euclea comes from the [[Piraea|ancient Piraean]] goddess Eukleia (Ευκλεια), the deity personifying glory and good repute. It is bordered to the north by the Pervovo Sea, Avanaric Sea, and Boreal Ocean, to the northeast by the Ghaillish Sea and North Sea, to the east by the Florian Ocean and Gulf of Assonaire, to the south by the Solarian Sea and Acheloian Sea, and to the west by the Lumine Ocean. [[Coius]] lies to the south and east. Euclea covers approximately one sixteenth of Kylaris's surface and is home to slightly over one fifth of its population. It is the world's second-most populous continent after Coius and is its richest on a gross GDP basis; nearly 40% of the world's aggregate GDP is generated in Euclea. Politically, Euclea is divided into approximately thirty states, twelve of which comprise  the [[Euclean Community]]. [[Soravia]] is the largest and most populous country in Euclea. ('''[[Euclea|See more...]]''')


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Euclea is a continent located entirely in the Northern and Western Hemispheres of Kylaris. The name Euclea comes from the ancient Piraean goddess Eukleia (Ευκλεια), the deity personifying glory and good repute. It is bordered to the north by the Pervovo Sea, Avanaric Sea, and Boreal Ocean, to the northeast by the Ghaillish Sea and North Sea, to the east by the Florian Ocean and Gulf of Assonaire, to the south by the Solarian Sea and Acheloian Sea, and to the west by the Lumine Ocean. Coius lies to the south and east. Euclea covers approximately one sixteenth of Kylaris's surface and is home to slightly over one fifth of its population. It is the world's second-most populous continent after Coius and is its richest on a gross GDP basis; nearly 40% of the world's aggregate GDP is generated in Euclea. Politically, Euclea is divided into approximately thirty states, twelve of which comprise the Euclean Community. Soravia is the largest and most populous country in Euclea. (See more...)

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