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==History== | ==History== | ||
:''See also: [[Old Roshterian]] | :''See also: [[Old Roshterian]] | ||
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|quote=The Roshterian tongue is not only unsurpassed in beauty, but is surely among the most bountiful of troves for the student of languages. No Talman can but marvel at this language's great depth and uncanny familiarity to him ... While its words and forms display some affinity to our own language [‌[[Skellan]]], they are even more akin to the ancient [[Thensarian]] language, indeed to such a degree that its Talmic provenance cannot be doubted ... Curiously, the Roshterian speech in particular is pronounced with consonants with strong tongue-curling ... it has a proclivity towards using lengthy words for single utterances where a succession of smaller words and prefixes combine in a quite volatile manner, reminding one of the language of [[Tigol]] texts ... I think it proper to further study this curious language, wherein is certain to lie solutions to great mysteries surrounding the common forebear of Talmic languages. | |quote=The Roshterian tongue is not only unsurpassed in beauty, but is surely among the most bountiful of troves for the student of languages. No Talman can but marvel at this language's great depth and uncanny familiarity to him ... While its words and forms display some affinity to our own language [‌[[Skellan]]], they are even more akin to the ancient [[Thensarian]] language, indeed to such a degree that its Talmic provenance cannot be doubted ... Curiously, the Roshterian speech in particular is pronounced with consonants with strong tongue-curling ... it has a proclivity towards using lengthy words for single utterances where a succession of smaller words and prefixes combine in a quite volatile manner, reminding one of the language of [[Tigol]] texts ... I think it proper to further study this curious language, wherein is certain to lie solutions to great mysteries surrounding the common forebear of Talmic languages. | ||
|source=Aloð Bolltind, from the preface of ''A bintylisłáh lly łidút a jawþ Roxderib'' (An introduction to the grammar of the Roshterian tongue) | |source=Aloð Bolltind, from the preface of ''A bintylisłáh lly łidút a jawþ Roxderib'' (An introduction to the grammar of the Roshterian tongue) | ||
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The ancestors of modern-day Roshterians are hypothesized to have been an autochthonous people who gradually adopted a Talmic superstrate language | The ancestors of modern-day Roshterians are hypothesized to have been an autochthonous people who gradually adopted a Talmic superstrate language. | ||
The first written example of a complete Roshterian sentence is found in a [[Windermere]] travel journal dating to ca. fT 830dd (in Windermere script): | The first written example of a complete Roshterian sentence is found in a [[Windermere]] travel journal dating to ca. fT 830dd (in Windermere script): | ||