Hraayan

Hraayan
Ngan Hraay
Pronunciation	[ŋan ˈɾ̥a.aj]
Created by	Fyorr
Date	2024
Setting	Earth; AltHist, Maritime SE Asia
Native to	Hraaya
Native speakers	~63.3 million (2025)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Hraayan
Early forms	Proto-Sino-Tibetan Proto-Sinitic Old Chinese Old Hraayan
Dialects	Songulutian Teyonic Gutohan
Official status
Official language in	Hraaya

Hraayan is a language spoken by approximately 63 million people in the Republic of Hraaya in Southeast Asia. Although the origins of the language are still a topic of debate within the linguistic community, most scholars agree that Hraayan is Sinitic in origin, with minorities believing the language is a distinct branch in the Trans-Himalayan language family. Consensus is that Hraayan diverged from Old Chinese some time around the 5th century BC, its speakers migrating southward, whereafter they first settled near the Mekong Delta and later in their present location. It serves as the native language of the Hraay ethnic group and is spoken natively by the majority of Hraaya.

This page is framed as written within the world, so any information unbeknownst to in-world linguists, or any context which would help in the understanding of this timeline, is placed in a box, like this. Hraayan is indeed a Sinitic language, having begun to diverge after citizens of the Cai State fled an ongoing war with the Chu Kingdom the Cai State was subsequently made to relocate.

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