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==History== | ==History== | ||
===Attestation and Classification=== | ===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. | Proto-Besokian is sparsely attested in writing in two [[Nishûnâc stone carvings|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 [[Script of Abreshahar|Dasmilian writings]] in the mid-3rd century. Like the younger [[Old Besokian]] carvings at the site, they are written in the [[Old Besokian writing|Old Besokian abugida]], the common ancestor of the [[Besokian script family]]. | ||
The variety thus preserved is the oldest tangible Besokian idiom, and although it shows much greater similarity to [[Old Besokian language|Old Besokian]] and the [[Soskish languages]] than to its northern descendants, it has generally been accepted as a plausible ancestor for the Besokian family as a whole, and missing lemmas can easily be reconstructed on account of attested daughter languages. Outside of the family, the Proto-Besokian seems to be closest related to the near-contemporary [[Proto-Andaro-Yenmic]], presumed to have been spoken in the northern [[Besokan valley]], forming a hypothetical [[Macro-Reknayan language family]]. | |||
===Distribution and Speakers=== | |||
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===Descendants=== | ===Descendants=== | ||