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The '''Packilvanian language''' (Packilvanian: ''luTamuk luBakhilfaniya'') is language spoken predominantly in Central [[Yasteria]]. It is the sole official language of [[Packilvania]], a co-official language in [[Hadena]] and [[Phoenixia]], and a regionally recognised language of [[Drakkengard]]. Due to the Packilvanian diaspora, Packilvanian is spoken in many other countries around the world. The Packilvanian Language Board (PLB) is responsible for the teaching, recording, and oversight of the Packilvanian language in Packilvania and its territories. Packilvanian is not a Unified language but consists of hundreds of dialects and local varieties. As such, the PLB working with academics from universities, developed Imperial Standard Packilvanian (ISP), which is a version based on the Bingol dialect and is used for official purposes, news and formal education. It supplanted Modern Standard Packilvanian which was the variety used by the Communist government. The estimate total population of speakers is 1.5 billion first language speakers.

Standard Modern Packilvanian is regarded as an agglutinative synthetic language as many affixes are appended to roots to impart and alter their meaning. The usual structure of sentences is the SVO model however some constructions use VSO. The verbs have 5 aspects and 6 moods. Nouns and verbs have 2 negations, 2 definiteness markers, 5 cases, 4 classes, and 3 numbers. 3 types of numerals are used. Adjectives and adverbs are governed by indistinguishable rules and are often placed after the verb, noun, adjective, or adverb that they are describing. 2 types of demonstratives are used. This language is generally regarded as difficult for speakers of [[Staynish]]-[[Codexian]] to learn due to the heavy use of agglutination, however, many roots have cognates and there is speculation that Staynish-Codexian diverged from an ancestor of Ancient Packilvanian at least 8,000 years ago as humans migrated to Aurora and South East Yasteria due to Feline encroachment. Written in the Packilvanian script, it has at least 8 vowels and 25 distinct consonants. The script consists of 26 letters in both upper and lower case and numbers use a base 10 counting system.