Levandian

Levandian is the ethnolinguistic designation for the people, language, and cultural heritage associated with the historic region of Levandia, located on the temperate coast of the fictional continent of Valara. The term encompasses the people, their language, and cultural traditions.

The Levandian homeland comprises coastal plains, river valleys, and wooded hills, historically linked by maritime trade routes. The core population is estimated in the tens of thousands to low hundreds of thousands, with diaspora communities in neighboring regions.

The Levandian language is considered endangered and its classification remains debated. Some linguists place it in a small Levandic family; others treat it as an isolate or a member of a broader regional group. It features agglutinative morphology and flexible sentence structure.

Historically, Levandian-speaking communities trace their presence to early agricultural societies, with Levandia as a maritime hub in medieval times and continued urban development in later periods. Contact with neighboring cultures and later state-building shaped its social and cultural institutions.

Traditional Levandian culture emphasizes kinship networks, crafts, music, and storytelling, with festivals tied to harvests and maritime cycles. Common crafts include pottery, textiles, and woodwork, while cuisine centers on seafood, grains, and herbs. Modern Levandi societies engage in fishing, agriculture, and trade, often in bilingual settings.