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{{Infobox language | {{Infobox language | ||
| name = Oalanii | | name = Oalanii | ||
| altname = Seilim | | altname = Seilim | ||
| creator = User:Jukethatbox | | creator = User:Jukethatbox | ||
| setting = Radael | | setting = Radael | ||
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The Oalanii endonym is unknown, as no surviving record written in the [[Oalanii#Orthography|Oalanii logographic script]] mentions their own name, though we know the [[Siktó]] called them the ''*séékm'e'', which is also most likely the root of the [[Endépéd]] word for the Oalanii, ''zaakyuma'', although this word is now mostly used to mean [[Moshurian]] speakers who are from Oalan and/or speak the unique [[Moshurian#Oalan dialect|Oalan dialect]]. | The Oalanii endonym is unknown, as no surviving record written in the [[Oalanii#Orthography|Oalanii logographic script]] mentions their own name, though we know the [[Siktó]] called them the ''*séékm'e'', which is also most likely the root of the [[Endépéd]] word for the Oalanii, ''zaakyuma'', although this word is now mostly used to mean [[Moshurian]] speakers who are from Oalan and/or speak the unique [[Moshurian#Oalan dialect|Oalan dialect]]. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
Oalanii, and its original native speakers, the Oalanii peoples, are of [[Taskaric languages|Taskaric]] origin. However, unlike most of their other cultural cousins, they did not settle in Birnu, and instead the Oalanii derive from a group of Proto-Taskaric peoples who sailed south and then west in the Néekh Strait, also called the ''β''-Taskaric peoples(as opposed to the ''α''-Taskaric peoples, who settled Birnu) | Oalanii, and its original native speakers, the Oalanii peoples, are of [[Taskaric languages|Taskaric]] origin. However, unlike most of their other cultural cousins, they did not settle in Birnu, and instead the Oalanii derive from a group of Proto-Taskaric peoples who sailed south and then west in the Néekh Strait, also called the ''β''-Taskaric peoples(as opposed to the ''α''-Taskaric peoples, who settled Birnu). | ||
===''β''-Taskaric=== | ===''β''-Taskaric=== | ||
At some point around 9,500 UH, the ''β''-Taskaric peoples split once more into two distinct peoples, called by Terran scholars as the ''γ''-Taskaric and ''λ''-Taskaric peoples. | At some point around 9,500 UH, the ''β''-Taskaric peoples split once more into two distinct peoples, called by Terran scholars as the ''γ''-Taskaric and ''λ''-Taskaric peoples. | ||
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[[Category:Oalanii]] | [[Category:Oalanii]] | ||
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[[Category:Languages]] | [[Category:Languages]] | ||
[[Category:Conlangs]] | [[Category:Conlangs]] | ||