Durakan language

Durakan refers to the two debated linguistic entities of Standard Durakan and Martovic Durakan. Classification of the two has proven controversial in Linguistics. The (PLACEHOLDER) define Standard Durakan as a language in the Gilat Shean family, with Martovic Durakan as a dialect of that language, while the (PLACEHOLDER) argues Standard Durakan to be a dialect of Asendavuan, while Martovic Durakan is a constructed language outside the Gilat Shean Family.

The issue stems from the question of mutual intellegability. Standard Durakan's intellegability with Asendavian has been argued, with some claiming they are mutually-intellegable, while others ascribe it to being more like Vistarian and Blueacian. Martovic Durakan, however, has some mutual intellegability with Standard Durakan, but undoubtably little to none with Asendavian.

Durakan began as a mix of a variety of Asendavian dialects mixing with working class colloquialism, which linguists today refer to as Early Standard Durakan (ESD).

ESD began developing within the lower classes of Asendavia between the early 19th and early 20th centuries, becoming an unclassified "dialect of the workers" as it grew more common during Indistrialization. However, ESD soon became linked with the Asendavian Miners' & Labourers'Front (Azdeklori Minarbeit' und Arbeit' Front in RSD) and similar Communist and Syndicalist organisations. Thus developed RSD, (Revolutionary Standard Durakan) with major influences from Ethalrian, believed to have been encouraged by Ethal-Asendavian Revolutionary Thomas "Tarov" Hesse, the first to suggest the Durakia Plan, which came into use following the failure at the Battle of Tungrad, leading to RSD coming to the newly established Durakia along with fleeing AMLF revolutionaries.

RSD was deemed the official language of Durakia, seeing it refered to as Durakan for the first time, as well as beginning the Language vs Dialect debate, as RSD developed further and further away from Asendavian, taking influence and words from the Pivnich languages of the native Dwarf population of West Novaris.

The rise of Sariv Martov saw the construction of New Durakan (Now refered to as Martovic Durakan), a synthetic mix of Durakan with Pivnich and Constructed elements, creating a language described to as 'dronespeak" by critics of Martov. Some elements of Martovic bled into Standard Durakan as it developed, which it did in spite of Martovist supression of the more common method of speech. This saw the evolution of the Modern Standard Durakan used in Durakia today, with the Martovic form being phased out following the annexation of Vakarastan, however remaining the official langyage of the Vakari Government-in-exile.