Sea Speak

Sea speak is a creole language primarily spoken by the Seaborn. A combination of various Pacific, Middle Eastern, and African languages and slang, the informal language has developed among the climate refugees living on arks and in refugee internment camps. The language has many names in a number of different component languages, but is typically referred to as "Sea Speak" in English, owing to the Seaborn speakers. Many linguists recognise the creole language as an independent language, but no government formally recognises it yet.

Following the destruction of many Pacific island nations and the Water Wars, hundreds of thousands to millions of people were forced to flee their homes and become refugees. Many of these people were housed on what was supposed to be temporary living space on floating cities (called "arks"), but this arrangement became permanent when no nation wished to host them. Adrift on the seas, this diverse combination of people spoke many different languages and found it hard to communicate with each other. However, as a unified culture began to develop, so did a language. It began as people learning individual words from other languages critical for tasks like maintenance and construction, but as a generation was born and raised on the arks, became a fully-blown creole language. This new generation, who self-identify as Seaborn at high rates, also speaks Sea Speak at rates far higher than their parents.

A plurality of the words in Sea Speak come from various Polynesian languages, such as Samoan and Tongan, but Arabic is particularly prominent as well. They are supplemented by subsaharan African languages such as those in the Niger-Congo and Bantu families. As more refugees from Africa join the Seaborn, the number of African languages in the language only continues to rise.