History of Ilirja

The Iliric union

Preceding the confederacy The Iliric Union was the first nation to fully unite the six Illire nations.
Founded in the year 1850 the union Than had similar set of laws considering self governance today Confederacy has and at first , Excluding some Hartline separatists mostly among the Eir people, everyone was content. The Ederi Haye, a traditional paramilitary organization of the Eir people was branded as an Illegal insurgency and was forced to lay low and turn to sabotages and assassinations in order to promote their goals. This lead to a division inside the group whit some of the most radical Eir separatist turning to terrorism. In the agreement ith the governmnet The Main branch of the haye dealt with the extremists under the promise of further autonomy. Instead the Island of Eir was placed under a military rule under the direct control of the Chairman (president) and the Haye were "pardoned for their previous transgressions". Even though the opposition from the entire country opposed this move the government quickly bribed or threatened them in submission. In the next year the Eir language was forbidden as all commands in the Haye were issued in it. Dadra and Ovirs also experienced a sharp decline in favor of Albo what was caused by the sole fact Albo was the richest and the most opportune state at the time. Ist and lasti remained mostly unsaved by this expansion. Lasti because of the distance between the Island of Lastovo and the rest of the nation.Ist however was a language with it's own writing system and long literature tradition. Histry people were also quite Untrustworthy towards strangers outright refusing to learn other languages even if it meant more opportunity. But They could afford it since Histria was the second most developed part of the Union having descent agriculture and manufacturing sector with the best quality infrastructure in the country at the time.
By 1873 there were No speakers of the Eir language left and the Eir people were caught in a bitter struggle of preserving their culture in spite of ever growing discrimination
By 1943 Dadra language was extinct as well and two years after Ovirs followed.

The United Ilirian Nation the Government wanted was blocked, in their opinion by The Ist and Lasti languages and to put more pressure on them the government sponsored the creation of "True Ilire language" in 1944 combining The remaining three languages into one. This however caused an uproar among everyone Because The Lasti and Histri saw it as a direct attack on their language and tradition while everyone else didn't want to learn a new language because of "Two uncultured provinces". After a while the uproar faded, True Ilire was introduced to schools while other languages were expelled from the curriculum but except the few bigger cities it had no success. It even caused a counter effect on the Island of Ederi where the community in the town of Issi tied the new language to the old traditions using it to re awaken the Eir national pride once again.
This move Inspired several National rebirths And in the City of DiCasssa a Dadra language revival project was started. The project quickly found it's way to the Cassal shore in Dadrania and a few years later Ovirs revival projects were started as well.

The Situation mostly remained in the status quo untill 2003 when a scholar called Gean Eri requested the ban on Ederi language to be removed in both standard ilire and Eir language. The government refused and sentenced Eri to a year in prison. after he got out he was discredited and his education Nullified. He however started a group called "the songbirds" that later went on to topple the Unionist government.

After that happened all the language were given the same legal status as official in their state while Standard ilire remained as a conlang of the nation.
Gean Eri lead the fastest and percentage wise most successful language revitalization program In Ilirja
 
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