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{{Infobox language
| name              = Hraayan
| nativename        = Ngan Hraay
| image             = Hraaya Flag.png
| imagesize         = 175px
| imagealt          = Flag
| pronunciation     = ŋan ˈɾ̥a.aj
| pronunciation_key = IPA for Hraayan
| creator           = User:Fyorr
| created           = 2024
| setting           = Earth; AltHist, Maritime SE Asia
| states            = Hraaya
| speakers          = ~63.3 million
| date              = 2025
| familycolor       = sino-tibetan
| fam1              = Sino-Tibetan
| fam2              = Sinitic
| ancestor1         = Proto-Sino-Tibetan
| ancestor2         = Proto-Sinitic
| ancestor3         = Old Chinese
| ancestor4         = Old Hraayan
| dia1              = Songulutian
| dia2              = Teyonic
| dia3              = Gutohan
| script1           = Latin
| nation            = Hraaya
| agency            = 
| map               = HraayaMap2.png
| mapsize           = 250px
| mapalt            = Map
| notice            = IPA
}}
'''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 heavy Austronesian influence, with minorities believing the language is a distinct branch in the Trans-Himalayan language family. Broad consensus is that Hraayan diverged from Old Chinese some time in the mid-1st millennium BCE, 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.
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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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