Rivrish language

Rivrish (Ɪɛiꞇ ϼiỽroᵹyn Foretanised Ieit Rivrogyn) is a Velanic spoken in Rivro, but also as a minority language in Seilurok, Trimap-Celazemo and parts of northern Lostra. It is the native language of the Rivrish and is also spoke as a first language by some Welenians and Enbrish. The language has around 28 million native speakers in Rivro, and 30 million speakers across the Rift region. It is also taught as a second language in Vandeca, Lipnitia, Northern Lostra and Seilurok.

Although classified as a Velanic language, Rivrish has a large amount of adstratum from north Kamiver languages such as Old Xambroyk. Many linguists regard Rivrish as having evolved out of a creole language of Old Welenian and Old Xambroyk. Some linguists have argued that a dialect continuum exists between Modern Welenian and Modern Xambroyk as far eastern dialects of Rivrish share much more vocabulary and grammar with Xambroyk than standard Rivrish does, making the dialect partially intelligble to speakers of Xambroyk. Similarly, western dialects of Rivrish are mutually intelligble with Welenian and even Welenian itself shares a degree of mutual intelligibility with Rivrish.

Rivrish has its origins in the conquest of the west bank of the Rift by the Kadualonyn, a Kamiver clan ejected from their traditional territory in the west bank by the Alar invasion. The creation of the Kamiver dominated Kingdom of Rivro cemented the status of Xambroyk as the langauge of prestige. As towns began to expand and primitive industry develope in the early modern period, the bourgeoisie would begin to become bilingual in Xambroyk and Welenian, leading to the development of an easier to learn pidgin language between the two which merchants and small holding peasants began to adopt for trade and education purposes. This pidgin evetually developed into the creole language Middle Rivrish, and would replace both Welenian and Xambroyk as the spoken language of the towns and cities. During the industrial revolution and rapid urbanisation of the country, Rivrish would become the most spoken language in the country. Following the Rivrish revolution Rivrish would become the sole official language, though Xambroyk continues to be spoken by some members of the former upper class and in the east bank exclave of Enbro. Dialects of Welenian are also still spoken in the countries western counties, but the language is considered to be vulnerable by the OLHF.