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The term '''Wiobian language(s)''' collectively refers to a group of closely related but mutually unintelligible [[Gamedan languages]], spoken in ''Wiobermin'', that descend from Classical Wiobian. It is a subgroup of (and nearly synonymous with) the '''Wiobic languages'''.

In-universe, Wiobian phonology and grammar has been greatly influenced by the language's position in the ''Jengeric Sprachbund'', including [[User:IlL/Naengic|Naengic languages]] and other languages. Wiobian has been heavily influenced by unrelated neighboring mono- or sesquisyllabic languages and underwent an extensive creolization-like process (cf. [https://www.academia.edu/13896948/Is_Radical_Analyticity_Normal_Implications_of_Niger-Congo_and_Southeast_Asia_for_Typology_and_Diachronic_Theory this]) since Gamedan speakers first arrived at the plains of the Ihumber River (Especially by immigrant speakers of these neighboring languages who arrived for reasons of trade, etc.), and eventually itself took part in tonogenesis. As a result, Modern Standard Wiobian has 5 tones and is much more phonotactically restricted than Classical Wiobian.