Ibothian language
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Ibothian is the Esh equivalent of Catalan. |
| Ibothian Ivocià |
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| Pronunciation: | [ˌɪbəˈθia]
alternatively [ˌɪvɒˈsia] |
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| Spoken in: |  Ibothia
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| Region: | Southern Ascesia | |
| Total speakers: | ~2.2 million native
~1.3 million second language |
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| Language family: | Ascesi-Ereanan Ascesian Continental Ascesian Southern Ascesian Eastern Ascesian Ascesianic Ivo Ibothian |
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| Writing system: | Ascesian alphabet | |
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| Official language of: | Ibothia | |
| Regulated by: | AIL | |
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| ISO 639-1: | iv | |
| ISO 639-2: | ivo | |
| ISO 639-3: | ivo | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Ibothian is a language spoken in Ibothia in Ascesia. It developed on the island of Ibothia between the 10th and 16th centuries, and is most closely related to Savamese, but also takes much of its vocabulary from Anzitanian.
It is an official language in 9 out of 15 communities of the communities of Ibothia, and is also the official Federal language.
History
Before 1000CE, the Island of Ibothia had been split into North and South by the Eastern and Western Ascesian Empires, with the north speaking Savamese and the west speaking Anzitanian.
As cracks in the empires began to appear, and the eventual dissolution took place, a dialect of Savamese began to develop in the border regions between the north and south in central Ibothia. To begin with this Anzitanian-influenced Savamese dialect differed from village to village, yet it still remained unrecognized by the monarchs in both North and South Ibothia.
The popularity of the dialect spread and by 1500 whole swathes of the island either side of the border began speaking this new language, giving the Ibothian people a distinct identity and nationality which it was lacking during the control of the Ascesian Empire. Alticiu (then in North Ibothia]] became the unofficial capital of the Ibothian language, with Valerect and Audazia being the capitals of the North and South respectively.
Ibothian dukes within North Ibothia began speaking Ibothian within the royal court, and Ibothian became generally recognised, despite the Prince still speaking Savamese.
In 1540, a people's revolt occurred in Port de vieux (now known as Porta de Vell, and not to be confused with Portuarivell). They demanded the right to speak Ibothian, which was still denied in South Ibothia. Similar rebellions occurred in several other border towns, and eventually lead to the breakout of the Ibothian War.
In 1545, following the war in which the North were victorious, Ibothian could be legally spoken throughout Ibothia. The capital was soon moved to the Ibothian-speaking Alticiu, an inland city whose name "Alticiutat" was Ibothian for "high-up city".
It soon became apparant that the city was not in the best location, and work began on a constructed city in the Duchy of Llora (Duché de Llora), which became known as Llorelia. It became the official capital of the Ibothian nation in 1668 under Princess Clara.
The language was then standardised in 1745, when it became apparent that Ibothia would not be joining the Savamese confederation.
In 1849, linguist Christophe Sabater founded the Ibothian Language Academy (Acadèmia Ivociana de la Llengua or AIL) to monitor the use of, and help teach, a standard dialect of Ibothian.
Despite the two standardizations of the language, various written dialects of Ibothian continued to be in common use until the spread of the mass media from the middle of the 20th century onwards. Nowadays, Ibothian is only generally written in its standardized form and dialects are limited to speech.
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