Sularin language
| Sularin | |
|---|---|
| Sularin dili | |
| Spoken in | Northern Lestria, eastern Serrinea |
| Language family | Saganic
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| Official status | |
| Official language in |  Busar Bilgedoghan Tire |
| Recognised minority language in |  Federated Eastern Sarbanates |
Sularin is a Saganic language spoken in north-western Lestria and south-eastern Ascesia around the Strait of Calcar. The name literally means 'of the waters', referring to its relatively diverse community's separation by the Strait, and association with maritime trade around the area.
Besides straddling two continents, the speakers of Sularin are at the same time members of two very different cultures and worlds, that is Sirian Lestria (specifically its Saganic north), and Bhramavadic Ascesia (specifically a part of the Homâyunic sphere). The relative closeness of their language, and indeed the survival of the use of a Saganic language (as the most prominent of lingering Ancient Sagan influences in eastern Ascesia), is rooted in the bustling trade around the Strait. The original Ascesian Saganic languages, spoken under the Bastani and their immediate descendants, were likely extinct by the tenth century, while Ascesian Sularin was introduced in waves by traders from Kerkes and Keretul starting in the 17th century. It was popularised quickly in Tire, at least initially as a lingua franca before attaining strength locally, and was later picked up by a program of Saganic cultural revival in Bizar and Sanjar in the 19th century. These variants of Sularin have still diverged somewhat from the Lestrian dialects, with use of Homâyunic loanwords, and even vestiges of Bastani Saganic.
Sularin is grouped into the Ascesian and Lestrian macro-dialects. The Lestrian macro-dialect is composed of the Kerkean (eponymous region of Lestrian Busar) and Keretulian (eponymous region, coterminous with Bilgedoghan), and the Ascesian macro-dialect is composed of the Sanjari (in Sanjar and Tire), Banvani (around Lake Banvan in the northern Federated Eastern Sarbanates), and Bizari (in the eponymous region of Ascesian Busar). These mostly correspond to the distinct cultural and regional communities that use the language.