Sarwabhasa

Sarwabhasa (Sarwabhasa) is a language of the Jazalic language family. It is the official and most widely-used language of Vizhutua. Sarwabhasa is the standardized form of Vizhutuan, historically the most commonly-spoken language in Vizhutua, in addition to adding loan words and grammar practices from other languages of Vizhutua.

With 20 million L1 speakers and 100 million L2 speakers, Sarwabhasa is one of the most-commonly spoken languages in the world, and is considered to be the language of diplomacy and business in southern Ondalsa. Sarwabhasa is an official language of the Federation of Nesiondalsan States, Committee for Economic Cooperation, Assistance, and Development, Group of 192,, and the.

Background
Vizhutua is a multilingual society. In addition to the 8 main languages of Vizhutua: Vizhutuan, Lenyingan, Bur, Tambalan, Nyidushan, Fusonchan, Pondunyan, and Rangitan, there are also as much as 200 regional languages spoken in the provinces of Vizhutua.

Since the Vizhutu Empire conquered all of modern Vizhutua in 1622, Vizhutuan (or Vijhutubhasa) was declared the lingua franca of the entire country, and all people were to learn Vizhutuan in order to converse with the general population. This brought anger to many non-Vizhutuans who accused ethnic Vizhutuans of practicing ethnic and linguistic supremacy.

The disastrous Anglo-Vizhutuan War and the ensuing Lenying Revolution of 1856 gave many non-Vizhutuans a new voice. They hoped that the government would create a new language that would be equal among the 8 ethnic groups of Vizhutua. As a result, a group of linguists led by V. Shrivastava and Mohamed Kazem Hesari began to establish rules and vocabulary for the new language.

The new language was to be called Sarwabhasa, a combination of the words Sarwa, meaning 'national', and Bhasa, meaning 'language'. Schools began offering Sarwabhasa classes as early as 1870, and by 1892 the number of speakers were reported to be one million, slowly replacing Vizhutuan as the country's lingua franca.

On June 28, 1947, the Official Languages Act came into force, and Sarwabhasa became the official language of Vizhutua.

Commemorations
On June 28, 1950, the first-ever Sarwabhasa Day (Sarwabhasadine) was held, which celebrated the date of Sarwabhasa becoming the national language of Vizhutua.