Languages of Pelinai (Pacifica)
| Languages of Pelinai | |
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| Official | Pelinese |
| Semi-official |
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| Minority | Livanan; 17 other languages primarily of the Chorekic, Koryaric, Marahic, Polyaric, and Sevaric language families |
| Foreign | 86% of population:
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| Signed | Pelinese Sign Language |
Among the languages of Pelinai, the one accorded official status at the federal level is Pelinese. Five other regional languages consisting of Loshkarian, Samaric, Sevarian, Stelossian, and Yukisoran possess official status in their respective Federal regions, while 18 other non-official languages are used in Pelinai to varying degrees of prevalence. Classical Samaric, a medieval-era ancestor of modern Samaric, is also prevalent as a liturgical language in Samara.
History
Official languages
Pelinai currently possesse a total of 6 official languages used in government affairs and taught as standard in public education: one national-level language, and five regional-level languages. Virtually all Pelinese citizens know Pelinese and at least one regional language, while immigrants proficient in any Pelinese languages typically know Pelinese only.
| Region(s) | Language | Language family | No. of speakers in Pelinai |
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| National languages | |||
 Pelinai
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Pelinese | 141,938,103 (2020 census) | |
| Regional languages | |||
 Loshkaria
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Loshkarian | Polyaric | 20,906,228 (2020 census) |
 Samara
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Samaric | Marahic | 23,504,928 (2020 census) |
 Sevaria
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Sevarian | Sevaric | 34,913,027 (2020 census) |
 Stelossia
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Stelossian | Chorekic | 56,017,563 (2020 census) |
 Yukisora
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Yukisoran | Koryaric | 3,827,100 (2020 census) |
Minority languages
Pelinai possesses a total of 18 non-official languages with greater than 25,000 native speakers that do not have official status at the federal or regional level, though most have status in smaller administrative subdivisions. Most minority languages spoken in Pelinai are of the Marahic, Chorekic, Koryaric, Sevaric, and Polyaric families; Livanan is also spoken in the Marahu Delta, Zholtograd, and other regions historically part of the Kingdom of Arcania and Livana before 1980.
| Language | Language family | Region(s) | No. of speakers in Pelinai | Notes |
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| Derevian | Koryaric | Sevaria Stelossia
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829,741 (2020 census) | Spoken by Derevians in the central Yukisora Mountains. |
| Einjeri | Polyaric | Loshkaria
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72,918 (2020 census) | Spoken primarily by ethnic Einjeris on the Loshkarian side of the Marahu River. |
| Kholngo | Koryaric | Yukisora
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96,305 (2020 census) | Spoken in parts of western Yukisora by Kholnshins. |
| Khoshian | Chorekic | Stelossia
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553,192 (2020 census) | Spoken by Khoshians on the island of Zholtiya. |
| Livanan | Samara Stelossia
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Spoken by ethnic Livanans in the Marahu Delta and Zholtograd. | ||
| Eastern Neo-Maraqaic | Marahic | Loshkaria Samara
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359,183 (2020 census) | Spoken by Maraqaians in western Loshkaria and eastern Samara. |
| Western Neo-Maraqaic | Marahic | Samara
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29,104 (2020 census) | Spoken by Maraqaians in western Samara. |
| Eastern Beilltemmic | Loshkaria Samara
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52,947 (2020 census) | ||
| Eastern Beilltemmic | Samara
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41,846 (2020 census) | ||
| Shamsharic | Marahic | Samara
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293,750 (2020 census) | west Marahic language spoken by Shamsharis in eastern Samara; distantly related to Samaric. |
| Teremykh | Sevaric | Sevaria
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1,229,741 (2020 census) | A close linguistic relative of Sevarian spoken predominantly in western and northern Sevaria. |
| Yamar | Polyaric | Loshkaria Yukisora
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409,188 (2020 census) | Primarily spoken by Yamars in the far southwestern Yukisora Mountains. |
Endangered languages in Pelinai
Immigrant languages
See also
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Kingdom of Pelinai ペリナイ王国 | |
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| Capital | Pelograd |
| Largest city | Tsugunare |
| Government | Federal constitutional monarchy |
The Kingdom of Pelinai is a federal, parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a largely ceremonial monarch and an independent, democratically elected civilian government headed by the Pelinese State Parliament. Its administrative territory is composed of 45 prefectures and five federal cities, each of which maintain a measure of autonomy in domestic affairs and elect ministers of parliament to represent them in the Pelinese State Parliament. Major cities in Pelinai include Tsugunare on the Marahu River, Hanahi on Pelinai’s western border, Shizukaiyō on the eastern Seiko Sea, Dainēsa in the western Yukisora Mountains, Botanhata, in northern Sevaria, Mizu-Soi-No-Machi on coastal Sevaria, Yurikawa, in central Pelinai, Marasei, close to the former borderlands between Stelossia and Sevaria, Korolyeviya, in the Yukisora Mountains, Letograd, which rests on the southern peninsula of Stelossia, Zholtograd, on the western coast of the island of Zholtiya Zemla, and the capital of Pelograd on the northeastern Mediterranean coast.
The Kingdom of Pelinai was first formed by the Kingdom of Stelossia in 1781 AD, after the conquest of the Third Loshkarian Karaltsate and the Sevar Karaltsate, though the area in which it resides has remained continuously inhabited by civilization since the early Bronze Age. The first major empire to exist in what is now Pelinai was the Neo-Samarahi Empire, which conquered large areas of Milayakh and the South Bailtemmic Plain during the Bailtemmic Iron Age before giving way to the Chorekites, which were then followed by the horse nomads of the Great Polyar Karaltsate. The later faltering of central Polyar control in eastern Milayakh brought the establishment of the Loshkar Dakaraltsate of the south, the Koryar Karaltsate of the east, and the Sevar Karaltsate of the northeast; these successor states would continue to war with both each other and neighboring states such as the Kingdom of Samara and the unified Kingdom of Stelossia intermittently throughout the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries. (Full article...)★ Featured page —
The Provisional Government for the Salvation of the Pelinese Nation, also commonly known as the July 7 Government or the Pelinese Provisional Government (Stelossian: Пелинское Временное Правительство, Pelinskoye Vremyennoye Pravityel’stvo), was a provisional government active in Pelinai from 1979 to late 1983. It was formed on July 9, 1979 during the early stages of the Pelinese Civil War as a merger of several preceding Pelinese anticommunist, monarchist, democratic, and other political groups that supported the White Revolution in order to consolidate leadership, resources, and strategic direction. During the Civil War, it served as the administrator of White-held territory, the primary diplomatic and political representative of the White Pelinese to foreign governments, and the supreme high command of the wartime Pelinese White Army.
After the conclusion of the Pelinese Civil War with a White victory in late 1982 and the emergence of the Pelinese Provisional Government as the sole governmental authority in Pelinai, its leadership began preparing for the reinstatement of regular governance along the lines of its political platform. Such measures included, among others, the reorganization of governmental ministries; the completion and ratification of the second Constitution of the Kingdom of Pelinai; the holding of elections for the first Pelinese State Parliament and regional governments; and the absorption of remaining administrative and economic entities affiliated with the defeated communist government. Other PPG activities during this time included initiating the prosecution of communist officials involved with the Spring of Tears and demobilizing most of the Pelinese White Army.
Following the 1983 provisional elections, the Pelinese Provisional Government administration formally reinstated the Perinaiko monarchy under Isukandar IV on December 24, 1983 and converted itself into a regular government. Most extant administrative, law enforcement, and other structures of the former PPG were implemented as their equivalent entities of the Federal Government of Pelinai, while the Revolutionary-era Pelinese White Army was promptly restructured into the Pelinese Armed Forces and the ruling national unity government was subdivided into new political parties. (Full article...)