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What Fluidian is

A contact language with Latin roots and a borrowed vocabulary, settled into its present shape over about a century and a half, and now used by nearly everybody in the Republic without ever having been made official.

Where it came from

The peninsula was a route between other places long before it was a state. Latin arrived with the coastal administration and supplied the structure of the language: the prepositions, the participles, the action nouns in -tiun, and the position of the adjective after its noun. The vocabulary laid on that structure arrived later and from several directions. The machine factories and the tram sheds supplied Czech words, first in the depots and afterwards in ordinary speech. The trade and craft families of the southern towns supplied Romanian, and the reading of the written language follows from that. The eastern seaboard supplied Italian, the southern frontier Serbian and the plain Hungarian.

The result is a patchwork in the vocabulary and a single consistent system in the grammar. The academy came afterward. It was constituted in 1946 to write down what had already happened, and its first published work was the register of irregular derivations, because those were the forms newcomers got wrong.

Who uses it

The Republic has 18,402,000 residents and no official language. Article 16(1) gives every person the right to address public authority in a language they understand, with interpretation provided free of charge, and leaves the languages of official record to organic law. Fluidian is not among them by right; it is there by use.

The figures below count speakers and not residents, so they add to more than the population. Most people in the border communes and the port speak two or three languages.

Languages spoken in the Republic
Language	ISO 639-3	Glottocode	Linguasphere	Speakers	Where
Fluidian	fld	flui1243	51-AAB-a	17,960,000	no official status; used across the whole territory
Iosmenian	ios	iosm1207	51-AAB-b	412,000	western border communes around Ossira
Aporean	apo	apor1216	51-AAA-c	268,000	southern port and the maritime corridor
Romanian	ron	roma1327	51-AAD-c	96,400	trade and craft families, Sornorum and Lindoma
Czech	ces	czec1258	53-AAA-da	71,200	the tram and machine factories, Lindoma and Sederna
Serbian	srp	serb1264	53-AAA-g	44,800	southern frontier communes
Italian	ita	ital1282	51-AAA-q	39,500	the eastern seaboard, Cortius
Hungarian	hun	hung1274	41-BAA-a	22,700	Durorilaqui and the arable plain
German	deu	stan1295	52-ABC-be	15,300	Merrisoma and the western uplands
Polish	pol	poli1260	53-AAA-cc	11,900	arrivals of 1939 to 1945, Leriduson
Greek	ell	mode1248	56-AAA-a	6,400	the port at Lutoliluri
Turkish	tur	nucl1301	44-AAB-a	4,100	the southern crossroads at Sornorum
Japanese	jpn	nucl1643	45-CAA-a	1,120	arrivals since 2023, mostly Lindoma

Japanese sits at the bottom of the table and is the newest entry on it. The community is small, very recent and almost entirely in Lindoma. The arrivals began in 2023 and the interpretation service at Ossira added the language to its list the following year.

Codes and registration

Fluidian, identifiers
Register	Value	Note
ISO 639-3	fld	Individual, living. Registered 1998.
ISO 639-2	fld	Bibliographic and terminological alike.
ISO 639-1	none	No two-letter code is assigned and the academy has not applied for one.
Glottocode	flui1243	Classified as a contact language, Romance-lexified.
Linguasphere	51-AAB-a	Within the Romance sector.
IETF language tag	fld	Script subtag Latn where it must be written out: fld-Latn-FL.
Country subtag	FL	Republic of Fluid.
Writing system	Latin	Twenty-three letters. Neither k, w nor ç is used except in loans left whole.

The academy holds these registrations as a cooperative and not on behalf of the Republic. A correction to any of them may be requested through the contact page, and the correspondence is published.