Certían Language

Certían is the official language of the [Jimmian_planet|Jimmian people]. It is spoken by approximately 94% of the population and is the first or native language of approximately 79% of the population.

Certían is a composite language of Toltan and Crazni descent, first spoken among the Vezanese in the mid eighth century BU and after unification became the unified official language of Jimmian. It takes its name from the Old Tolten word for the Crazni, Skerztíanen.

Certían is grammatically a Crazni language but it takes much of its higher word forms from Old Toltan and over the years has been heavily influenced by other major languages as the kingdom of Vezan took over more and more of the old nations of Jimmian.

Today, the Certían vocabulary is comprised of at least seven international languages, though their word forms are often modified to fit the Certían phonetic and alphabetic patterns.

History

Old Certían

The earliest form of the Certían language began in the Nilemenaro region of Jimmian along the south west coast among the local tribes near modern Vezalo. The old empires of Tolt and Girv were continuously at war over the region, leaving standing outposts that were manned locally sometimes over many generations. Given the extremity of the region from both nation's, a local dialect of roughly equal parts Old Tolten and Girven (now mostly lost) had grown up among the local villages and along the sea coast. After the mutual revolts led by [Lerough-1st|Ler], the Toltan battle commander, the language was adopted by the newely established [Vezan]. Over the next two hundred years, Certían became dominant over the imperial languages of Old Tolten and Girven.

Still, Old Certían was generally divided into three dialects, the northern dialect influenced by Girv, the eastern dialect influenced by Tolt and the coastal dialect which blended them both and also included influences from Zast, across the sea.