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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]]. | 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=== | ===Distribution and Speakers=== | ||
Proto-Besokian was spoken by the early Besokian farming community at Nishûnâc and the surrounding areas subdued in the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age. The oldest attested form of the language, the idiom used in the Hêrûn hâm Hôrenod, seems to date to around 2400 B.E.B., an early time of Besokian prosperity on the eve of the Besokian explorations. No earlier evidence for a Besokian language exists, but the continuous settlement of Nishûnâc from at least 3500 B.E.B. suggests a continuous language spoken at the site, even if over multiple historical stages. | Proto-Besokian was spoken by the early Besokian farming community at Nishûnâc and the surrounding areas subdued in the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age. The oldest attested form of the language, the idiom used in the Hêrûn hâm Hôrenod, seems to date to around 2400 B.E.B., an early time of Besokian prosperity on the eve of the Besokian explorations. No earlier evidence for a Besokian language exists, but the continuous settlement of Nishûnâc from at least 3500 B.E.B. suggests a continuous language spoken at the site, even if over multiple historical stages. Its attestation in writing and geographical dispersal into the Besokian family relay that the language was both a vernacular and used in religious ceremonies, and likely also an administrative idiom; its liturgical usage later gave rise to the Old Besokian variety. | ||
Its attestation in writing and geographical dispersal into the Besokian family relay that the language was both a vernacular | |||
===Descendants=== | ===Descendants=== | ||
The descendants of Proto-Besokian fall into four groups, forming the three branches of the Besokian family and the Old Besokian language. Initially | |||