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The '''Proto-Besokian language''' (PBs. ''[Mîlûd] Hârunin'') is the common ancestor of the [[Besokian languages]]. Spoken between the 4th and 3rd | The '''Proto-Besokian language''' (PBs. ''[Mîlûd] Hârunin'') is the common ancestor of the [[Besokian languages]]. Spoken between the 4th and 3rd millennium B.E.B. in [[Nishûnâc]] and the surrounding areas, it was the primary language of the early [[Besokian peoples|Besokian culture]] before splitting into multiple descendant branches as the Besokian peoples dispersed from their original homeland, most significantly the [[Soskish languages]]. As main liturgical language of the [[Besokian cult]] it was [[Old Besokian writing|preserved in writing]] early on, rendering it one of two potential candidates for the first written language in [[Elondor]] (beside [[Classical Shaharian]]). | ||
==Etymology== | ==Etymology== | ||
The ''Besokian'' | The ''Besokian'' appellation is exonymic, stemming from its association with the Besokian peoples, a term in turn derived from their original distribution along, and association with, the [[Besokan river]]. the endonym ''Hârnunin'' more generally refers to the people of the [[Three Hills|Second Hill]] (Nishûnâc), serving as the early Besokian’s name for themselves and a broader racial designation separating them from the peoples of [[Belkondíl]] and [[Seligon]]. | ||
==History== | |||
===Attestation and Classification=== | |||
Proto-Besokian is sparsely attested in writing in two stone carvings at Nishûnâc, the [[Besokian Cosmogony (text)|Hêrûn hâm Hôrenod]] and the [[Old Besokian world map]], the oldest carvings at the site with a presumed date of origin in the early Bronze Age, around 2000 B.E.B. for the latter but potentially significantly earlier for the former, closer to the first Dasmilian writings in the mid-3rd century. Like the younger Old Besokian carvings at the site, they are written in the Old Besokian abugida, the common ancestor of the Besokian script family. | |||
and potentially the oldest | |||
===Descendants=== | |||