Culture in Ártanan

The Irdenjan culture (Irdenjan: Lhîrdd'a Irdenjoś) is the culture of peoples living in the geographical region of the former Federal Republic of Irdenja that identify as Irdenjans. The cultural aspects of those peoples have been influenced by centuries of coexistence, religious and social traditions. Culture of Ártanan has had an influence on art, philosophy, music, science and politics.

The unique character of Irdenjan culture developed as a result of it's close proximity to several dozen cultures of the Kartalian, Yalovan, Sorillic and Aspayni variety. As a result of the Irdenjan government's policies in the past and the natural hospitability of Irdenjans, the country had grown to become to be one of the most tolerant in Velizka as a whole prior to the Torberian intervention. These factors have contributed to the diversity of influences seen in Irdenjan art and music. Nowadays the country is a subject of Torberia, the Luminar culture of which also heavily influences Ártanan.

The term that defines an individual's appreciation of Irdenjan culture is Artanofurena, although the public perception of the word in Irdenja is mixed.

Language
Irdenjan (Irdenjoś nnag, irdenij) is a language of the Artanic branch of East Jaturnian languages — descendants of Classical Jaturnian. In the early post-Jaturnian Period, Irdenjan was a Sorillic language now referred to as Old Erðtanjan, but had evolved together with the local Jaturnian dialect in a process known as the Great Loaning (Irdenjan: Bardza śînage) to form the base of the modern literary standard. Because of this linguistic synthesis the proportion of Sorillic words in the everyday language is almost equal to the proportion of Jaturnian-origin words.