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The '''Besokian | The '''Besokian Languages''' perhaps are the most self-contradictory in their distribution, once reaching from the [[Nukna Highlands]] of [[Geran]] to the merchant quarters in every [[Seligon|Seligonian]] city, by the end of the [[Lécaron|Imperial Era]] near-extinct save for a handful of idioms—one of them still the most widely spoken language of [[Elondor]], [[Lécaronian Soskish]]. As it is the language spoken by most characters in most of my stories, I render it in the language of my writing, originally German, by now English—much like Tolkien reproduced the [http://www.tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Westron Westron] dialogues in his works as English—, and consequently, the Besokian languages are rendered entirely (except for a few loans in [[Iilish Language|Iilish]]) as Indo-European: [[Soskish Languages|Soskish]] as West Germanic, with [[Western Soskish]] English/German, [[Eastern Soskish]] Dutch, and [[Thárian Soskish]] Luxemburgish, [[Reknayan Language|Reknayan]] as Russian, and [[Kattasi Languages|Kattasi]] as Tocharian B. It is mostly for this fact that I have not given them the attention many of my other families have received, and currently only three of almost forty planned languages are complete enough for a sensible utterance to be made in them. | ||
== Branches and Languages == | == Branches and Languages == | ||