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Eurania
Ethnicity: Euranians
Native speakers: 28 million (2019)
Language family: Euranian
Early forms:
Proto Euranian
Old Euranian
Middle Euranian

Standardized form: Togyanjô
Dialects: Euranian dialects
Writing system:
Hanmenkul (Euranian alphabet)
Hanmenzi (Euranian characters)

Official status

Official language in:

Eurania
Regulated by: National Institute of the Euranian Language

Euranian (Euranian: 한멘거/邯門語 hanmengô) is an Eastern language spoken by around 28 million people, and the official and national language of the Republic of Eurania. A language isolate, the Euranian language has no extant relatives. However, the language itself is heavily influential on the languages of minorities on the islands of Eurania, particularly the Anui and Ipachi minorities.

History

The modern Euranian language descends from Middle Euranian, which in turn descends from Old and Proto-Euranian. The urheimat (the linguistic homeland) of the Euranian language is speculated to be from Eastern Asia. The settlement of the Euranian people in the Euranian isles circa 500 BCE saw the interaction of the Euranian language with the various native languages, including the Anui language.

The settlement of the Euranians introduced the first writing system used by the Euranians to the Euranian isles, Euranian characters. These characters, which are logographic, were used by the nobility and warrior class of the Euranian Shodanate

Names

The names of the Euranian language are based on the names of the Euranian proper.

The name Eurania is the latinzation of the Euranian name Ginhwa, meaning 'star origin' or 'land of the stars'.

Geographic distribution and international spread

Dialects

Writing system

Proto-Euranian Hanmenzi characters

Modern Euranian uses Hanmenkul, the alphabet created by the Hyunsong Shodanate in 1456 in order to unify the country and improve literacy among the populace. Prior to this, Hanmenzi, a logographic writing system that used Euranian characters, was utilized for the use of writing Euranian. Use of Hanmenzi of Hanmenzi lasted from the circa 500 BCE settlement of the Euranian isles by Euranians to the reforms by the Hyunsong Shodanate.

Hanmenzi particularly worked well with Euranian vocabulary's tendency to have one to three syllables, but the sheer number of characters, plus the general illiteracy of the Euranian populace led to the creation of Hanmenkul, a Link featural alphabet.