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==The Bronic-speaking area== | ==The Bronic-speaking area== | ||
[[File:Bronosphere.png|thumb|The Bronic-speaking area of Calémere.]] | [[File:Bronosphere.png|thumb|The Bronic-speaking area of Calémere.]] | ||
The Bronic speaking area is a large plain area - with some noticeable hilly areas inside - on the southern coast of the Skyrdegan Inner Sea, just south of the main islands of Skyrdagor. The whole area reaches from 42ºN (northern Fathan) to 33°N (the southernmost tip of Hivampaida, not too distant from the southernmost tip of Brono). The area stretches inland at most about 1000 km (in eastern Brono) and at least 150 (northern Fathan); the climate in most of the area is defined as humid subtropical, sheltered from the colder northern winds by the Skyrdegan islands, but also out of reach from tropical influences because of the over 6000 m high plateaus to the south (the southern third of Hivampaida is part of this plateau area) - it mostly continues the mediterranean climate of Qualdomailor, but is markedly more humid and, especially in inland Brono and most of Fathan, winters can be chilly with occasional bursts of frost from the northern winds. Snow falls in most of Fathan and parts of inland Brono, but almost never at sea level. | The Bronic speaking area is a large plain area - with some noticeable hilly areas inside - on the southern coast of the Skyrdegan Inner Sea, just south of the main islands of Skyrdagor. The whole area reaches from 42ºN (northern Fathan) to 33°N (the southernmost tip of Hivampaida, not too distant from the southernmost tip of Brono). The area stretches inland at most about 1000 km (in eastern Brono) and at least 150 (northern Fathan); the climate in most of the area is defined as humid subtropical, sheltered from the colder northern winds by the Skyrdegan islands, but also out of reach from tropical influences because of the over 6000 m high plateaus to the south (the southern third of Hivampaida, though lower, is part of this plateau area) - it mostly continues the mediterranean climate of Qualdomailor, but is markedly more humid and, especially in inland Brono and most of Fathan, winters can be chilly with occasional bursts of frost from the northern winds. Snow falls in most of Fathan and parts of inland Brono, but almost never at sea level. | ||
Brono and Fathan are homogeneously Brono-Fathanic-speaking, with dialects of the language forming a continuum throughout the area, with a moderately high mutual intellegibility between the most extreme forms; the main minority language is Gorjonur Skyrdagor in Fathan - the language of neighboring Gorjan - and Chlouvānem (incl. daughter languages) in Brono. Hivampaida is mostly diglossic, with classical Chlouvānem being the lingua franca but Moamatemposisy, a Bronic variant, being the vernacular of about half of the population. Note, though, that southern Hivampaida, despite ultimately being a highland basin drained by the river Hŏrlaš (Bro.: ''Hoarelasy'', Chl.: ''Hårelasih''), the major river of Fathan, is mostly devoid of Brono-Fathanic speakers<ref>Brono-Fathanic speakers in the upper Hŏrlaš valley have always been mostly limited to some riverside towns closer to Fathan; the valley has historically been mostly Fargulyn-speaking, and even the Bronic annexation did not bring much Bronic settlement. Today various Fargulyn languages (all of them of the Karaskyr branch) are the rural vernaculars, while Chlouvānem is the urban one, even if Standard Bronic is a compulsory school subject in the whole of Hivampaida, including those areas.</ref>. | Brono and Fathan are homogeneously Brono-Fathanic-speaking, with dialects of the language forming a continuum throughout the area, with a moderately high mutual intellegibility between the most extreme forms; the main minority language is Gorjonur Skyrdagor in Fathan - the language of neighboring Gorjan - and Chlouvānem (incl. daughter languages) in Brono. Hivampaida is mostly diglossic, with classical Chlouvānem being the lingua franca but Moamatemposisy, a Bronic variant, being the vernacular of about half of the population. Note, though, that southern Hivampaida, despite ultimately being a highland basin drained by the river Hŏrlaš (Bro.: ''Hoarelasy'', Chl.: ''Hårelasih''), the major river of Fathan, is mostly devoid of Brono-Fathanic speakers<ref>Brono-Fathanic speakers in the upper Hŏrlaš valley have always been mostly limited to some riverside towns closer to Fathan; the valley has historically been mostly Fargulyn-speaking, and even the Bronic annexation did not bring much Bronic settlement. Today various Fargulyn languages (all of them of the Karaskyr branch) are the rural vernaculars, while Chlouvānem is the urban one, even if Standard Bronic is a compulsory school subject in the whole of Hivampaida, including those areas.</ref>. | ||