Languages of the Seafaring Confederation

The Seafaring Confederation, due to its confederate structure, contains many languages within its borders.

Lingua franca
The lingua franca and general working language of confederational institutions like the Parliament of the Seafaring Confederation is English. Knowledge of English is required for all residents of the Confederation who wish to travel amongst its nations, and is to be taught at schools from the age of 9 onwards.

Over the years the usage of English for intra-confederational communication has created a version of English known as Seafaring English, which draws influences from mostly Gaelic and Scottish accents.

"Official" versus "unofficial"
In confederate legal terms, an "official language" as under paragraph 3.2 of the Seafaring Confederation Language Recognition Act is a national language of any of the member states that is used for official conduct and translations of confederal matters. An "unofficial language" as under paragraph 4.2 of the same act is a language that enjoys official status within at least one of the member nations but is not represented in confederal institutions.

Saxony
Within Saxony there are four official languages: German Low Saxon, Dutch Low Saxon, German and Dutch. There are also the unofficial Frisian languages, although these do enjoy full recognition in several counties and municipalities. Furthermore, historically there has existed great diversity amongst both German and Dutch Low Saxonian in dialects, which are all recognized on municipal level next to the standardized version of the language.

Schleswig-Holstein-Jutland
Schleswig-Holstein-Jutland has only one official language: German Low Saxon. Unofficial usage of German, Jutlandic, North Frisian and German is prevalent within some municipalities in the nation.

Dogger
The official language of Dogger is Dogrish. Dogrish has three recognized forms of which the usage differs per municipality, and are sometimes used interchangeably.

Howry
The official language of Howry is Howrish. Also spoken on the island of Drogey is Drollic, however, this language does not enjoy any unofficial recognition whatsoever.

The Highlands
The official languages of the Highlands are Scots Gaelic and Welsh. Unofficial languages are Lowland Scots and English, which are prevalent in several areas in the southern part of the nation.

Faroe Islands
The official language of the Faroe Islands is Faroese language. There are no unofficial languages.

Rockall
The official language of Rockall is Rockallian, also known as Rockall Gaelic. Additional unofficial languages are Fernolian and Astrallic, which share equal status to Rockallian and dominant status to one another in several of the baronetcies.

Rom
Rom only has one official language: Romic.