Sagaviri Languages

The Sagaviri Languages comprise a language family formerly spoken throughout large swathes of Southern Alteniquia, which currently has two remaining extant languages spoken in Sakravir. It is one of the most well-known language groups of Rathnir.
== History ==
The Sagaviri languages have roots in the Asaran peoples of prehistoric Sironia. Following the arrival of the prophet Temion, this powerful tribe converted to Sakrelism and began to send out missionaries to the surrounding Shironlirak people, eventually annexing them, beginning the rise of the Sagaviri Empire. Ancient Sagaviri began to serve as a common tongue between the tribes of Shironlirak and Asara.
The original distinct endonyms (such as "Morothonian" for the Sironian language), used during the rule of Rithaur IV, were later collated by Sagaviri nationalist Mikuhr into the term "Sagaviri" (after the Empire) in order to use Aldovir's shared linguistic heritage as a source of a unified regional identity.
Following the destruction of Rathnir, the surviving Sagaviri peoples of Aldovir migrated to Abexilas and established the Empire of Sakravir, where the former Sironian and Adavian languages merged into modern Sakraviri, whilst the old Siro-Carnian dialect became a distinct Therkosian language, present in the Kingdom of Therkos in northern Sakravir.
== Script ==
=== Transcription System ===
* Sagaviri-Latin transcription system by Desir Farenkir-Kanadith (to be clarified which dialects it is relevant to)
== Syntax ==
The southern strains of the language (Lapidosan and Ádávírí) follow the Subject - Object - Verb (SOV) grammatical syntax, however: the northern group - most closely tied to or derived from old noble strains of the precursor language, such as Sironian or Thenian (Siro-Carnian) - remain followers of the Subject - Verb - Object (SVO) grammatical syntax.
== Distribution and Languages ==
In Aldovir, there were two branches of the Sagaviri language family: Northern and Southern. Of the southern languages, Ádávírí was spoken predominantly in the majority of Adavia; and Lapidoviri spoken in the County of Volstronn and the city of Boreavir. The dominant northern language, Sironviri, was composed of the Standard Sironian dialect in Sironia and the Fusciniviri dialect of Fuscinivir (southwestern Theionikos). In the territories of the Neo-Sagaviri Empire between Adavia and Sironia, the Siro-Carnian and Adavo-Carnian dialects were present, forming a dialect continuum between the two groups.
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Table of Sagaviri dialects, their references (hyperlinks in dialect names) and influences
Nation / Ehtnic Group	Dialect Name
(ref. in link)	Dialect Aliases 	Influenced by 	Status 	Scholars Responsible 	Notes
Sagavir 	TBD 	Proto-Sagaviri, Old, Thaxironian, Standard, Universal	Moroccan / Berber 	Extinct 	Thaxiron of Kalasirol 	DFK: "Once Sagavir fell, there were 6 main successor states that maintained the religion and culture: Sironvir, Kaithrat, Lapidovir, Adavir, Vanakunir, and Fuscinivir."
Sironvir 	Sironviri+ ortography 	Classical, Modern 	Ancient Sagaviri, Swedish 	Alive/Current/Official	
* Ythar II
* Thaxiron of Kalasirol
* Sexiest Sedail	Ythar II: "The one we all know and love."
Fuscinivir 	Fusciniviri 	- 	Ancient 	Extinct 	Desir Farenkir-Kanadith 	DFK: "Fuscinivir was never part of Sagavir, but settled by them. They used Classical/Sironian Sagaviri as a second language and when there was the immigration from Sironia after the civil war, it became dominant/official, their native dialect (with their Fusciniviri alphabet - romanized orthography) became little more than an odd accent and was lost over time. "
Lapidovir 	Lapidoviri 	Imperial Aldoviri 	Ancient 	Alive (Endangered) 	Desir Farenkir-Kanadith 	Ythar II: "Highly corrupted dialect of the language spoken over in CobbleWorks."
Adavir 	Adaviri 	Ádávírí 	Ancient, Lapidoviri, Sironviri 	Alive 	ArchIsHot, Fox 	DFK: "Adavir annexed by Hraam empire but they survived as a minority... eventually revived with influence from rest of Aldovir."
Vanakunir 	Vanakuniri 	- 	Ancient, Sironviri 	Alive 	Skinnyee 	DFK: "Vanakunir never accomplished their dialect. 2 of the islands spoke Sironian and 3 spoke Lapidoviri."
See also: Aldovir/Vanakunir.
Sakrelist Clergy 	Sakrelic 	Liturgical, Church 	Uralic: Finnish, Samoyedic; Sagaviri	Transcending 	AquaGryphon of Asour'therak 	AquaGryphon: "It came to me in a dream from Sakrelith. I am starting with Proto-Sári and writing down and deciphering the language. It isn’t part of the Sagaviri dialects, but for religious purposes. So like Sermons and rituals would be conducted in that langauge. Kinda like how Coptic is used for religious purposes but Arabic is the main spoken langauge. But it has a ton of loan words and older Sagaviri sayings, especially religious ones will be loaned into it. If all goes well, Sironia should have two official languages, Sagaviri and Church Sakrelic."
Jeghosia 	Sironvir-influenced Jeghosi	Varthaloviri 	original Jeghosi <= Basque <= Armenian
Sironviri	In revival 	Andronikos Constantine (Karma)	Ythar II: "Jeghosi are not Sagaviri and they don't speak Sagaviri. But assumed they have many Sagaviri loan words, for concepts and thing they didn't know about before their contact with Sagaviri people, which was pretty much since the dawn of time."
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