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The Great Universe (Ancient)
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Founded: Oct 05, 2014
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Postby The Great Universe (Ancient) » Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:26 am

65% English, 35% French, pretty much.

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Stormaen
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Founded: Mar 15, 2010
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Postby Stormaen » Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:37 am

English is the main language. About 96% of people speak it as their first language and it's the language of government, business and education, etc.

The second most spoken language in Stormaen is Polish, spoken by about 5,000 people.

Stormaen is also one of only two places outside of Scotland to have had a Scottish Gaelic presence. Following the Highland Clearances in the 18th and 19th centuries, many Highlanders found a comforting familiarity in the Fells of Stormaen and took up residence there. Scottish Gaelic was once so prevalent that entire villages spoke nothing but Gaelic. Questions were also raised in Parliament concerning the "second settlement" of Stormaen.

However, by 1900, the Scottish Gaelic communities had not only ceased growing but were actively declining. There are still approximately 800 or so native Scottish Gaelic speakers living in Stormaen, mostly around the village of Cairngorm.
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Sarmata
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Founded: Oct 14, 2014
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Postby Sarmata » Wed Oct 15, 2014 4:29 am

The language of our people is Sarmatan, it is a complicated mix of ancient Scythian and Proto-Slavic. However the high elders are the only ones that speak the language of the first people, which doesn't fall into any language group.

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Arztoztka
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Founded: Sep 10, 2014
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Languages of Arztoztka

Postby Arztoztka » Wed Oct 15, 2014 4:37 am

Arztoztka has two official languages: Arztewzwek (Cornish) and Arzhoneg (Breton). This because the tribes that landed in Arztoztka a millennia or so took different paths and landed in different sides of the island, and eventually reunited, but enough time passed so they could develop a new language.

A recognized language is English, and is taught at schools (alongside Arztewzwek and Arzhoneg, due the heavy similarity on almost everything that the languages possess, so it is easy for one native speaker of any of both language to learn the other), in order to facilitate communication between tourists, as well in communication efforts in case of any military intervention is issued, to communicate properly with the locals.

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Theatrical Theists
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Founded: Oct 04, 2011
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Postby Theatrical Theists » Wed Oct 15, 2014 7:56 am

Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit, and Arabic are the official languages of the Theocracy of Theatrical Theists. The use of any other language is illegal, except for foreign dignitaries (ambassadors included), and people working for them.

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New Brasilia
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Founded: Jul 19, 2014
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Postby New Brasilia » Thu Oct 16, 2014 11:58 am

Portuguese is our official language.
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The Great Zedong Dynasty
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Founded: Sep 16, 2014
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Postby The Great Zedong Dynasty » Thu Oct 16, 2014 1:12 pm

Zedonganese is the Sino-Tibetan language of the Great Empire of Zedongguo in the rest of the provinces speak their own languages and also there are many dialects of the Zedonganese language.
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Coopanonva
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Founded: Feb 04, 2011
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Postby Coopanonva » Thu Oct 16, 2014 1:29 pm

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Recognised: Cyrpianese at 6%, English at 87% and Eurasiaee Latin at 14%.
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The Irish Peoples Republic (Ancient)
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Founded: Oct 16, 2014
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Postby The Irish Peoples Republic (Ancient) » Thu Oct 16, 2014 2:15 pm

Primary: English, Irish
Secondary: Ulster Scots, Yiddish
Minor: Punjabi, Russian, Polish, Kurdish, Spanish
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•Capital: Dublin
•Taoiseach: Tighearnán Ó Cinnéidigh
•Official languages: Irish, Ulster Scots, English
•Type of government: Federal socialist benevolent dictatorship

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Germanahii
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Founded: Aug 24, 2014
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Postby Germanahii » Thu Oct 16, 2014 2:21 pm

Main Language: Coporaen (Shoidioiryagheikhn)
Secondary: English and Espanecian

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Coopanonva
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Postby Coopanonva » Thu Oct 16, 2014 2:38 pm

The Irish Peoples Republic wrote:Primary: English, Irish
Secondary: Ulster Scots, Yiddish
Minor: Punjabi, Russian, Polish, Kurdish, Spanish


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Collogne
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Founded: Jan 19, 2014
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Postby Collogne » Thu Oct 16, 2014 2:41 pm

A large population speak English (which is a language choice in all schools) but everyone in Collogne speaks Collong, our native language.
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Glory Communist Norway
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Founded: May 26, 2014
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Postby Glory Communist Norway » Thu Oct 16, 2014 2:43 pm

the national language is Norwegian but the states also recognizes Swedish, danish, Finnish, Icelandic and sami languages
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De Volkstaat
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Founded: Oct 16, 2014
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Postby De Volkstaat » Thu Oct 16, 2014 8:07 pm

Official:Afrikaans
Recognized Minority: English, Xhosa, Sesotho, Zulu
Unofficial minority: Swazi, Ndebele

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Skwar
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Founded: Jun 24, 2014
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Postby Skwar » Thu Oct 16, 2014 9:22 pm

Official: Skwarsche
Secondary: English, French
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Arvenia
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Founded: Aug 21, 2014
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Postby Arvenia » Sat Oct 18, 2014 11:21 am

Primary Majority: English and Native Arvenian

Secondary Majority: Japanese, Old Norse, Latin, Cantonese, Mandarin, French, German, Swedish, Polese, Tibetan, Indonesian, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Morse, Italian, Greek and Qandarian

Primary Minority: Taiwanese and Irish

Secondary Minority: Hebrew, Dutch, Korean, Yapese, Bislama, Jiddisch, Hindi, Thai, Esperanto, Memansk, Ninian, Russian, Filipino, Vietnamese, Catalan, Romani, African and Mongolian
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Westgothia
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Founded: Oct 18, 2014
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Postby Westgothia » Sat Oct 18, 2014 11:35 am

Westgothic (a descendant of Old Norse and relative of languages such as Icelandic, Danish, etc.) is the official language and predominant educational and governmental language, spoken as a first language by around 92% of the population and as a second language by most of the rest.

English and French are frequently used in business and occasionally in education. Taking one or the other for at least three years is a prerequisite to graduating secondary school, and owing to Westgothia's period under British hegemony, the three oldest tertiary institutions (the secular Universities of Halladhovn and Kvítbjork, and the Roman Catholic College of St. Gregory the Great), founded as anglophone colleges, still conduct some non-language classes in English, especially at the graduate level for the first two. English is spoken as a first language by less than 1% of the population, but is spoken as an additional (especially second) language by over 60%; French is spoken as a first language by about 3%, but as an additional language by only about 25%.

Additional minority languages include Danish (the language of the colonial realm in which Westgothia marked the western border), Spanish (the language of most Latin American immigrants), and Hindi (the language of the traditional plurality of Asian immigrants).

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Imperial Archduchy of Greater Rosental
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Founded: Oct 15, 2014
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Postby Imperial Archduchy of Greater Rosental » Sat Oct 18, 2014 11:47 am

Primary: German and Hungarian

Others: Czech, Polish, Croatian and Serbian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Slovakian, Slovenian and Italian

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Aeuria
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Founded: Feb 13, 2014
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Postby Aeuria » Sat Oct 18, 2014 12:00 pm

Official Languages: English, French, Latin

All citizens speak English fluently with a large majority also speaking French. The only region of the Commonwealth that French is the predominate language is the southern coasts. English is the most common language pretty much everywhere else. Not many citizens speak Latin as it's only common amongst the ruling class and their servants, the wealthy, and small groups of civilians.
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Paleo Poland-Lithuania
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Founded: Jun 06, 2014
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Postby Paleo Poland-Lithuania » Sat Oct 18, 2014 1:59 pm

1. Polish
2. Lithuanian
3. Latvian
4. Kashubian
5. Belarusian
6. Ukrainian
7. Rusyn
8. German
9. Slovak
10. Czech
11. Russian
12. Yiddish
13. Romani
14. Hindi
15. Arabic
16. Latgalian
17. Armenian
18. Hungarian
19. Moldavian
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Pine Island
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Founded: Oct 11, 2014
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Postby Pine Island » Sat Oct 18, 2014 5:37 pm

English, profanity, and sarcasm.
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Peluzzanien
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Founded: Oct 10, 2014
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Postby Peluzzanien » Sat Oct 18, 2014 5:39 pm

Peluzzanian and italian.

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Longweather
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Democratic Socialists

Postby Longweather » Sun Oct 19, 2014 12:16 am

Primary Languages: High Alor and the Common Tongue.

Secondary Languages: None.

Minority Languages: None.

To explain, High Alor is the language spoken by the aristocracy amongst themselves (so much of government too). The Common Tongue is the language that all people in the Imperial Dominion speak.
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Elvion
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Founded: Oct 10, 2014
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Postby Elvion » Sun Oct 19, 2014 12:43 am

Elvonine is the lingua franca, but many of the Houses have their own languages which members use amongst themselves.

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Victoriala
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Founded: Feb 24, 2012
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Postby Victoriala » Sun Oct 19, 2014 12:49 am

I'm currently in retcon mode, but here goes:

Visvaraja is culturally diverse. On the eastern islands you got the Austronesian Baharu, Tamaung and Sarabha, on the east you get the Sino-tibetan and Indic Dangri, Bharupa, Bhagavi and Payyam. Dangri, Dutch/German and english aee the languages of the government.
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