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A summary of everything we know about Ashbarni (in-world lore stolen from the in-world wikipedia)
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The Ashbarni language (muukha--y[asbaar] or simply [asbaar], mūk'a-y ašbār-ni "language of Ashbars'") is the oldest and form of the language of the ancient Ashbarni kingdom, as well as the first written language on the planet Cultatul. It is usually thought to be a language isolate, although there were some largery unsuccesful attempts at connecting the language to various language families.

It has started to become extinct by the year XYXY BCLY (2000 BCEY), when, under the influence of the Renaghatic empire, many speakers started using Renaghatic instead. Within the next few hundred years the few remaining speakers to abandon the language.


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The history of the Ashbarni language begins with writing; at first, just as a purely logographic system, used simply as an aid for remembering certain things. The earliest full readable text found is the [MISSING LORE] from circa XYXY BCLY (2800 BCEY).
It is debated whether the Ashbarni writing (an logographic/syllabic script with abjad and alphabetic elements) was developed completely seperately from the Renaghatic hieroglyphs, if one script evolved from the other or if one was inspired by the other; most commonly, thought, it is said the Ashbarni script was first, while the Renaghatic hieroglyphs developed later and were highly inspired, if not directly derived from, the Ashbarni ones.

Within the 800 years of Ashbarni writings, the language did not seem to change much, though it is largely agreed upon that it is because older, more archaic forms of the language were used for the writing, while the spoken language continued to evolve. Some changes can, however, be seen – mostly to do with the vowels and diphtongs (such as /uw/ developing into /u:/, /iw/ simplifying into /i/ and, later, /ə/ dissapearing).

After the year XYXY BCLY (2000 BCEY), when the growing Renaghatic Empire was expanding it's influence, writings of Ashbarni in it's script get progressively rarer, until dissapearing completely. Few years after that, all written records in the language dissapear completely; after humans arrived, however, an annotated Athrutian bible dating back to circa XYXY ADLY (115X ADEY) was found, with the added text written in modified Inemre in a language later identified as Modern Ashbarni (sometimes dubbed Neobarni); the theory this was Ashbarni was highly controversial at first, since noone wanted to believe a language could dissapear from the written record for so long. Later, though, few more texts written mostly in Inemre, but also various other scripts, were found, usually annotations or translations of other texts, which proved to be very helpful in translating the ancient language.
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