Ketaserang: Difference between revisions

| minority = Poccasin Federation

'''Ketaserang'''(/[[Help:IPA|kətæsɪˈræŋ, kɪ-]]/; ''ketasiraangeh'' [[Help:IPA|[ketɐsɪˈraːŋeh]]]) is the language spoken by the Seru people, an ethnolinguistic group of related peoples inhabiting the Ketaserang & Kenalerambo archipelago in the Poccasin Federation. Variously considered a single language and a [[w:Dialect continuum|dialect continuum]], Ketaserang has the largest population of native speakers for an indigenous language in the Poccasin Federation, at 2.56 million speakers; only the [[w:English-based creole language|English creole language]] [[Bemé]] has more speakers at 15 million. Because of this high native speaker number, there have been various [[w:Self-determination|calls for independence]] by the Seru peoples to form their own state distinct from the Poccasin Federation; however, these calls have mostly died down since the [[1999 Internal Autonomy Act]], which gave each region in the Poccasin Federation their own devolved regional government and a right to withdraw from the Federation if a two-thirds majority vote for independence is achieved.