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The original speakers of Magellanican, the Yamikzeq people, originated from the Rutheri region of Magellanica which borders the Heart Sea. From about one thousand years ago it became the lingua franca of the entire area surrounding the Heart Sea, and then the entire continent following the advent of smallpox in the 16th Century.

Magellanican is a language isolate ~~and~~ has no traceable genealogical relation to any other language, ancient or modern. It does however form a sprachbund with its neighbours, sharing such features as a bisyllabic root structure, primary stress on the first syllable, consonant gradation, the opposition of voiceless plosives vs voiced fricatives or approximants, head-marking and a strong tendency towards polysynthesis. The dialect described below is the standard variety promulgated by the Commonwealth of Magellanica.

Magellanican is the sole survivor of a small language family so is now an isolate. It has no traceable genealogical relation to any other language, ancient or modern outside its own extinct family. It does however form a sprachbund with its neighbours, sharing such features as a bisyllabic root structure, primary stress on the first syllable, consonant gradation, the opposition of voiceless plosives vs voiced fricatives or approximants, head-marking and a strong tendency towards polysynthesis. The dialect described below is the standard variety promulgated by the Commonwealth of Magellanica.

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 The original speakers of Magellanican, the Yamikzeq people, originated from the Rutheri region of Magellanica which borders the Heart Sea. From about one thousand years ago it became the lingua franca of the entire area surrounding the Heart Sea, and then the entire continent following the advent of smallpox in the 16th Century.
-Magellanican is a language isolate and has no traceable genealogical relation to any other language, ancient or modern. It does however form a sprachbund with its neighbours, sharing such features as a bisyllabic root structure, primary stress on the first syllable, consonant gradation, the opposition of voiceless plosives vs voiced fricatives or approximants, head-marking and a strong tendency towards polysynthesis. The dialect described below is the standard variety promulgated by the Commonwealth of Magellanica.
+Magellanican is the sole survivor of a small language family so is now an isolate. It has no traceable genealogical relation to any other language, ancient or modern outside its own extinct family. It does however form a sprachbund with its neighbours, sharing such features as a bisyllabic root structure, primary stress on the first syllable, consonant gradation, the opposition of voiceless plosives vs voiced fricatives or approximants, head-marking and a strong tendency towards polysynthesis. The dialect described below is the standard variety promulgated by the Commonwealth of Magellanica.
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