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===Setting=== | ===Setting=== | ||
The Medyestani Confederacy is a social, political and military alliance between various close cultures, towns, city states and lands that act as a rough equivalent to a nation state. The lingua franca of these lands is Medyestani, which in turn has an influence on the language, which draws features from several Sprachbunds. | The Medyestani Confederacy is a social, political and military alliance between various close cultures, towns, city states and lands that act as a rough equivalent to a nation state. The lingua franca of these lands is Medyestani, which in turn has an influence on the language, which draws features from several Sprachbunds. | ||
===Dialects=== | |||
Somewhat unlike contemporary dialect theory, Medyestani does not really possess a ''standard'' dialect or register. Or, rather, the speaker community does not seem to perceive one, instead referring to a ''central dialect'' called Medyachi. The dialect structure is as such: | |||
*Western dialects (Mehraeni) | |||
:*North-Western (Nermehraeni) | |||
::*'''Snosaedi/Snaevi dialect''' (Snowheath/Snowy) | |||
:*West-Central (Medyemehraeni) | |||
::*'''Medyachi dialect''' (Central < medyak, a negotiator, go-between, or middleman) | |||
:*South-Western (Resmehraeni) | |||
::*Southern Plains dialect (Reslandi) | |||
::*Ukraen dialect - spoken further SW than Reslandi (Ukraeni) | |||
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