Languages of Humanity
Bonjour, privyet, halito, namaste, selamat siang, xin chào, mihofnima, muraho, zdrasti -- many of the ways that humanity once said "hello", once upon a time, when we were still young.Humanity on Istralar has had a long and complicated past. When they awoke, confused and naked at the desert-edge of an unblemished Sunari Wilderness, they were one people; over the next few milennia, this changed. They spread across Xin-Jiyu and to Valathe, traversing the land down to Takawaoku. finding their pathways to Kudara, and the very bravest settling in the icy wilderness of Iskaldhal. With them, they brought language. And over the years, their words drifted. Well over ten milennia into the future, the language of the original humans is nothing like what it once was. Fragmented into thousands and influenced by the many languages of Istralar's other inhabitants, what was once simple had become more complex than anyone could ever imagine. Nations as far apart as Yksinka and Vuorenmaa shared fragments and words in their own languages, despite having little to nothing to do with one another in the current day - and being on completely separate continents. Nations directly next to each other, such as Yulan Sheng and Sunadar - both fragments of the Empire of Meihua - have pasts filled with entirely different languages, with little mutual intelligibility.
Successor Languages
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