Cerian: Difference between revisions

|region        = Western Evandor (Great Cerian Plain)

|setting      = [[Verse:Calémere|Calémere]]

|fam1          = [[Evandorian languages]]

|fam2          = Central Evandorian

|image        = Flag of Ceria.png

|imagealt      = Flag of the Republic of Ceria

'''Cerian''' — natively '''Čérízon''' ({{IPA|[tʃeːˈriːzon]}} (SEC); {{IPA|[tʃeɪ̯ˈʁiːzon]}} (L. Bénáteno); {{IPA|[tɕʰeˈriːzɔn]}} (Pásuone)) or '''šérošu čérí''' {{IPA|[ˈʃeːroʃu tʃeːˈriː]}} (SEC) — is the main global lingua franca on the planet on [[Verse:Calémere|Calémere]], particularly in the nations of its Western Bloc, and its second-most spoken language by number of native speakers (after [[Chlouvānem]]). It is an [[Evandorian languages|Evandorian language]] belonging to the Central Evandorian branch, and one of the direct descendants of one of the two most important Classical language of the Calemerian Western civilization, namely [[Íscégon]].

Native to the country of Ceria (Cer.: ''Čéría''; Isc.: ''Ciairegiion'') in the western part of Evandor, Cerian is the official language of ten countries in Evandor - Ceria, Šáritun, Vétaní, Čaha, Rocoma, Corevía, Ótéa, Úrofa, Noméde Ínéma, and Sternia (Cer. ''Seténía'' - co-official with Majo-Bankrávian) - and 37 other countries around the planet. It is also a regionally recognized language in the Evandorian countries of Besagret, Helinetia, Ingvensia, Auralia and Nordulic (Cer.: ''Bésói'', ''Helinétía'', ''Envenšía'', ''Órolía'', ''Nódóa''), and in many other countries of the planet, including even a few areas in the northwestern [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition|Chlouvānem Inquisition]].

The name Ceria (and therefore Cerian), as with many major Calémerian, particularly Evandorian, peoples and places, dates back to my first proto-conworlding projects, and I simply imported it into Calémere - something that meant justifying the very-IE-looking ''-ia'' ending in a Calémerian linguistic perspective.<br/>Cerian itself is the main lingua franca of Calémere, a role equivalent to that English has on Earth, and to some extent English is one of my inspiration, although only as far as Cerian, just like English, has a large number of dialects spoken in many countries across the world. Aesthetically, my main inspirations behind Cerian are Latin, Japanese (mostly in the syllable structure), and to a lesser extent also Norwegian and Swedish. Grammatically I wanted a mostly analytic language, even though in the end it is not as analytic as other Evandorian languages (such as [[Nordulaki]], to name one) and with some SAE traits, most notably phonology (even though that lack of a distinction between /r/ and /l/ is not SAE at all), mixed in with a few non-European traits (such as the tense system).

==Dialects==

* Tárošébizen is the name for the Cerian dialect spoken as a first language by Cerians in the former Cerian colony of Tárošébi, today the Chlouvānem diocese of the Tārṣaivai, in the Northwest (not far from the border with Aréntía). Cerians in Tārṣaivai are a small minority (about ten thousand people) consisting of the descendants of those Evandorians that didn't leave the territory after it was taken by the Chlouvānem. Tárošébizen is a divergent dialect as its speakers have had for more than a century very limited contacts with the rest of the Cerian-speaking world, and it is only preserved as the language of a small minority; it has absorbed numerous influences from Chlouvānem, and notably it generally does not share vocabulary related to technology, culture, or science of the last hundred years with other Cerian dialects; Tárošébizen speakers are likely to be familiar only with Standard Evandorian Cerian, as it is the Cerian dialect usually taught as a foreign language in the Inquisition. Despite this, it remains the native vernacular of the Cerian ethnic community of the Inquisition, mostly remaining in Tārṣaivai but sometimes also found in other major cities of the country<ref>The lexical divergence of Tárošébizen from other Cerian dialects is especially noted, in fact, by immigrants to other Chlouvānem cities, where there are small pockets of people from Cerian-speaking countries of the Western world who immigrated to the Inquisition.</ref>.

{{IPA|/h/}} is lost in about half of all Evandorian dialects (including all of the most spoken ones, but notably it is preserved in formal Standard Evandorian Cerian) and in virtually all Púrítonen ones; it is generally still found in dialects spoken on other continents.

* Evandorian dialects: {{IPA|[e(ː)ˈroːgɐn]}} (Mánébodin Cerian or Standard Evandorian Cerian), {{IPA|[ɪːˈroːgɪn]}} (Čagan Cerian), {{IPA|[eə̯ˈʁɔːgən]}} (Central Coastal), {{IPA|[eˈlogɛn]}} (Hilly Southeastern - note the conservation of {{IPA|/l/}}), {{IPA|[(j)eːˈruːgʲən]}} (Šáritunen)

* Púrítonen dialects: {{IPA|[eɪ̯ˈrʊə̯gən]}} (NE Coastal Púrítonen), {{IPA|[ɛɪ̯ˈruːgen]}} (Inland Northern Púrítonen), {{IPA|[eɪ̯ˈʁoʊ̯gen]}} (Lake Bénáteno)

* Céránentian dialects: {{IPA|[eːˈɾoːgʲɪn]}} (Cánésen), {{IPA|[eˈruːgʲɪn]}} (Pásuone)

Demonyms and nouns of both genders:

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Like other descendants of Íscégon, Cerian radically restructured the Íscégon verbal system. While Íscégon had a system of mostly prefixing inflections that mainly changed aspect or valency, these inflections have with time transformed into self-standing verbs, becoming a derivational process rather than an inflectional one (cf. Ísc. ''táso'' "I walk", ''máentáso'' "I start walking" → Cer. ''tóson'' "to go, walk", ''méntón'', earlier ''méntóson'' "to depart"). These aspectual inflections and valency changes are now marked by auxiliary verbs or adverbs (with few exceptions); meanwhile, Cerian (and other descendants of Íscégon, as well as some languages influenced by it in a sprachbund covering various parts of central Evandor, most notably Nordûlaki) started cliticizing at the end of the verb various adverbs that served to indicate tense; later on, in Cerian (excluding some Southern dialects) and Péigu only, final ''-n'' in some of those adverbs started being analyzed as a feminine marker, which led to it being added to those verbs that did not have it, resulting in the present system that morphologically marks tense and gender.

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