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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. 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. | 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. It was this same language that was spoken by the first Besokian explorers venturing into eastern Belkondíl and Amasia, eventually giving rise to the Besokian language family. | ||
===Descendants=== | ===Descendants=== | ||
The descendants of Proto-Besokian fall into four groups, forming the three branches of the Besokian family and the Old Besokian language. | The descendants of Proto-Besokian fall into four groups, forming the three branches of the Besokian family and the Old Besokian language. The first Besokian migrations are likely to have taken settlers north into the middle Besokan valley, where relationships with the Andarians were established around 2800 B.E.B. The foundation of Old Kattas around the same time laid the groundwork for the first sedentary Besokian community beyond the sway of Nishûnâc, and the Kattasi dialect is like to have emerged not long after. Forming the basis for the Kattasi language family, the descendants of this dialect were later spoken throughout the Reknaya and in Geran, most notably in the Kingdom of Yamenna. | ||
The southern Besokians remained centred on Nishûnâc for considerably longer, even after the equine domestication in Oakshire around 2300 B.E.B. and the subsequent pre-Soskish expeditions reaching as far Amasia. | |||