Laiorian language

The Laiorian language (Laiorian: Լաoկործu կիելիտւն, Laokinjoku kielitun) is a Mainland Saryinic language originally spoken in Laioria and around the Kadersaryinan Islands from around the late 3rd century BCE until it went extinct in the early 9th century CE from the loss of knowledge of the language from being repopulated by Jewish settlers and being replaced by Yiddish and Hebrew. This language is the successor of the Old Laiorian language. This language is experiencing a revival since the late 1980s. Since 2020, Laiorian started to have more speakers since the collapse of the First Kingdom of Laioria.

Old Laiorian (3rd century BCE - 9th century CE)
The language was believed to have been spoken as the general lingua franca on at least the Island of Daricajuce from its splintering from Old Mawakinese in the late 3rd century BCE. Due to the power of the First Kingdom of Laioria and the versatility of the Laiorian script, the language facilitated a boom in Laiorian culture in around 650 CE. The kingdom covered most of the central Kadersaryinan Islands by that time.

By around 732 CE the empire suffered a rapid fall, as did the use of the Laiorian language. After successful independence movements rose up against Laioria, they too rooted out the language of their prior occupiers, and active use fell to just half of the Island of Daricajuce. Additionally, the Jewish community had now come to power in the area, and many Laiorians were fooled by propaganda scapegoating them for the failure. As Hebrew and Yiddish grew in popularity Laiorian fell out of love in its heartland.

Since the 1980s, however, the language has seen an increase in popularity, fuelled by the success of Alfonso Txurrónes' independence movement, which used campaigns with snippets of a standardised and more accessible form of the language to increase interest in the long-disused tongue. However, this had the side-effect of panicking other states as the use of the language was seen to be reminiscent of the days of Laiorian imperialism of the seventh century. Nevertheless, Laiorian is now a school subject taught at both S Level and A Level standard, as well as degree level by the University of Laioria, and has gained recognition as a minority language in other nearby states.