Byusan languages
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| Byusan languages | |
| Spoken in: | Byusa and former colonies |
| Timeline/Universe: | Indo-European Japan Timeline |
| Total speakers: | |
| Genealogical classification: | Euro-Byusan (Indo-European in our timline)
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| Basic word order: | SOV? |
| Morphological type: | inflectional |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | |
| Created by: | |
| Nik | 2007-09-25 |
The Byusan languages are the sole surviving languages of the East Asian branch of the Euro-Byusan language family (Indo-European in our timeline).
The ancestors of the Byusans are believed to have arrived some time around 800 BC from China, bringing with them agriculture, horses, and metallurgy. There are generally considered to be three Byusan languages spoken today, although some linguists divide the family into five languages.
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Proto-Byusan
Proto-Byusan split off from Proto-East Asian around 800 BC or so.
Old Byusan
The term Old Byusan is used for the earliest written form, around the 8th century, as Chinese-derived anzi came into use. Old Byusan had a strict CV(C) syllable structure.
Middle Byusan
By the Middle Byusan period, the Eastern and Western dialects were becoming increasingly divergent, and some linguists prefer to consider them already distinct languages, as Old East Byusan and Old West Byusan.
