Badis languages

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Badis languages were previously the most widely-spread languages on the continent of Wytn. Though they have fallen into disuse over much of their previous range, there are still communities which use them on a day-to-day basis- see the small peninsula and the volcanic islands of Atasia, and the areas on the west coast.

The Badis family of languages today includes Modern Badis, Ek kaiatan, Island, and the numerous dialects thereof.

Badis languages on Wytn

Badis languages were among the first on Wytn, having been beaten there only by the ancestor of modern Weyr Languages, Weyr or Proto-Pantrelan. Each Badis language shares a common ancestor- Pareš. Pareš first made landfall in Wytn along the southern shores of Pantrela during the early second century BCE. Later, separate groups of Pareš-speaking peoples settled on the northeastern portion of the continent.

Badis languages in the South

Pareš-speaking peoples landed on Wytn in about 2.5k BCE. Because the land was sparsely populated at that time (there were only a few-thousand Weyr-speaking peoples there), the people found the land quite hospitable and thrived.

Early conflicts with the early Pantrelan people in 2k BCE forced the Pareš-speaking peoples southward into the colder regions. The modern language of the southernmost regions, Ek kaiatan, is a direct descendant of Pareš.

Around 2.5k BCE, Pareš-speaking peoples landed on Island, and began displacing populations there. A truce was made between the two in around 2.3k BCE, and the Great Wall was built.

Eventually the wall fell into pieces and the people, rather than continue to fight one another, found it more beneficial to join together. The descendant of the pidgin of the early Weyr language and the Pareš language which were spoken there is today called Island. It is unique among the languages on Wytn in that it's a roughly even mixture of the Pareš and early-Weyr language.

Badis languages in the North

Aided by superior military technology, Badis-speaking peoples spread rapidly over the continent of Wytn, subjugating local populations and creating regions which were governed by appointed generals and governors. However, due to the fact that Badis-speaking peoples considered themselves above the local populations and thus did not intermingle, very little linguistic imprint was left there.

During the Great Pushback (around 900 y.a.), Badis-speaking peoples were repelled from their colonized regions and pushed back into smaller areas. The concentration of Badis-speaking peoples in those areas were high enough to preserve the spoken language there, but over all the rest of their range, little to no trace of the several-centuries-long occupation remained.

Modern dialects of northern Badis have grown apart from one another due to isolation and lack of communication between the peoples there, and are now considered by some to be separate languages (Western Badis, Dena Badis, Atasian Badis).