Fialta (Language)

Fialta is the language of Fialta Space and the Fialta people.
== Cosmographic Distribution ==
Fialta is the language of the "Fialta Sphere" (roughly analogous to the former Fialta States), spoken as the official language of the Fialta Imperium, the Thalranese Marches, the Fialta Grand Duchies and the Valdosian Free State. It is an official but not primary language of Alusia and the Republic of Semal, and the unofficial language of the Fialta Freebooter Worlds.
== History ==
Fialta belongs to the same language family as the "Thalranese" spoken by the Imperium of Thalran, but also has significant loanwords and a number of grammatical constructions from Shantine and, more anciently, from Mage Imperium Vedlys (identified mostly by comparison to modern Velsian and Saldanese Vedlys) which are believed to have been absorbed from conquered peoples and from historic commerce.
== Varieties ==
With such widespread fragmentation, there is significant dispute regarding the "true" Fialta language, with rival language boards in the Imperium and Alusia (the Alusian language board is responsible for "Fialta Education" within its territory, and often emphasizes the distinctions between Imperial Fialta and "classical Fialta"). The Imperial board, part of the Fialta Academy, is dominated by Dalthadi influence: while the Grand Duchies and Valdosian Free State official observe the decrees of the Fialta Academy, there is noticeable linguistic drift in the Free State, especially around contractual language.
While no formal language body exists within the Thalranese Marches and the Freebooter worlds that mostly descend from them, significant political hay is made in the epic poems of the Marches about the "catatonia of the tongue" induced by the "grape-press grammar" of the Imperial board. 
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