The Peoples of Renjeva

In the grand march of history, the island we now call Renjeva has been inhabited for but a blink of an eye, and for a fraction of one by the current majority. Due to its isolated nature, Renjeva was left out of the initial migrations of humans out of the savannahs they originally lived in, and it was not until the native peoples of other islands closer to the mainland ventured out into the great blue unknown that humans of any sort came to inhabit the far off island, naming their new home "Jina Erekusu", or "Far Island". While initially being the same as their forebears towards the mainland, these new people came to develop their own language, rituals, and traditions, due to their rarely broken separation, creating the unique people who stand alongside us today.

--The Early Peoples of Renjeva, Antoine Corcella, 1949 CE

The majority of modern Renjevans are in some way descended from someone who came to this island recently as a foreigner. Whether as part of the first wave of Bordelian settlers, or as one of the many later immigrants once the city began to grow in the post-liberation period. While the original colonials would have spoken a form of Bordelian identical to that of the heartland, the large distance and resultant rare contact meant it did not take long for a local dialect to form, not quite distinct enough to no longer be mutually intelligible, but difficult to understand in many ways for metropole Bordelians. This difference was further expanded by the more recent surge of immigrants, who, whilst mostly adopting Renjevan Bordelian, inadvertantly had their own effect on it, resulting in the modern day Renjevan Language spoken by almost all of the island's million inhabitants.

-- A Short History of Humans in Renjeva, Augustina Chassin, 1967 CE