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It has long been assumed that Minhay had been settled during nomadic tribes during the Ice Ages, part of the general migrations that eventually peopled Siberia, the Americas, and Ainushir.  Traditional accounts claim that three ethnic groups, the Golahats, the Peshpegs, and the Minhast came to Minhay at around the same time, but eventually the Minhast eventually dominated the island.  During the mid 1950's, foreign archaeologists from the West were finally allowed to enter Minhay, and their preliminary excavations came up with puzzling results.  The closest relatives of the Minhast are believed to be the Ainu of neighboring Kar-put-ya-Moshir (Sakhalin), Hokkay and Honesh-Pet (formerly known as Honshu before the partition of the Japanese Empire by the Kingdom of Koguryeo and the Ainu Federation).  But the Ainu, or their putative ancestors, the Jōmon, are known to have occupied the region as early 14,500 BCE.  The earliest artifacts found in Minhay that could be definitively attributed to the Minhast are flint arrows and iron swords dated as recent as 300 CE.  Golahat and Peshpeg artifacts are far rarer, but the earliest of those artifacts date to circa 130 CE.  This indicates that the Minhast, Golahats, and Peshpegs came much later, several millenia after the great Paleosiberian migrations that led to the peopling of northeast Siberia and the Americas.

The texts mentioned a city called Vórina which lay 50km south of the capital, Aškuan. In fact, the author had written precise directions where to find the lost city. Archaeologists went to where the purported Vórina was located, in an extensive hardwood forest that reached the edge of Minhay's southern coast. A few days before the archaeologists arrived, lidar imagery was taken of the area and revealed several large mounds underneath the canopy. Excavations began, and soon a treasure trove of artifacts were unearthed. Pillars and the remnants of buildings were found bearing a script very similar to the Irraħma scrolls engraved into the stone. Another surprise: in the lower strata were sedimentary deposits clearly indicating the city at one time was on the coastline. It was in this same strata that there were indications that a major earthquake had struck the area, and a thin layer of what could only be marine sediment - which could have been deposited there by a tsunami.  And one more disturbing discovery. Flint arrowheads and signs of fire damage abound in this layer. The flint arrowheads were the ''hattīya'', bearing the same design used by the Horse Speakers of the Central Plateau.

== Toponyms ==  

| Kanzorél || Fresh Water || Gaenðyl || Kenzor || Kuznur

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| Nemkil || Corner || Naengileð || Kotash ("Meeting Place") || Xunnaš ("Rough Ground")

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| Karhō || Crossroads || Karhon || Oyür ("Ridgeline") || Qarħaq ("Sinew, thread")

| Nargoi || Rivers Bend || Nergoïs || Nargoy || Narrūy

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| Anthō/Aenthō || Fortress || Aeyaţin || Ansha || Nināha

=Phonology=

==Orthography==

==Consonants==

==Vowels==

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==Demonstratives==

| style="text-align:center"| doion

| colspan="2" style="text-align:center"| terien

| style="text-align:center" | varien

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===Case and Number===

The following table illustrates the regular case-number paradigm:

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! Direct

| style="text-align:center"| reihar  

| style="text-align:center"| andra

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!  Oblique

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The direct case is used for nouns in both agent and patient roles.  The construct case principally marks the possessum of a possessive noun phrase, although certain prepositions that can be etymologically traced to body part and location nouns also require the construct case.  The oblique case appears in nouns preceded by prepositions, although the oblique case also marks subjects of a closed set of verbs indicating cognition, emotion, and perception.

== Verbs ==

==== Phenomonological ====

==== Motion Verbs ====

{{Gloss

|phrase = Narina ron Érovin, levá temi Roìdon

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| translation = Go down to Érovin, and you will find Roìdon there.  

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| IPA =  

| morphemes = andrin-a ron Érovin, alan-ti terz-ien ni rom zidrá.  

| translation = (Now) Return from Érovin, for you (will have?) finished your business.

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1) Transitive Marking

{{Gloss

| IPA =  

| translation = You come to us!

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| IPA =  

| morphemes = mai-a tiren-a ron

| translation = Come quickly!

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Many motion verbs demonstrate a shared etymology, such as ''maza'' and ''maia'', from an underlying ''ma-'' in the previous examples.  However, arguments that the ''-z-'' and ''-i-'' segments denote the transitivity of the verb is not supported by the data, as several counterexamples occur, and segments other than a ''z/i'' opposition are also found in the Irraħma author's writings.  Counter examples include the verbs ''ioris'' "to approach" and ''iosin'' "to walk away", containing a shared underlying root ''io-'', and submorphemes ''-ris'' and ''-sin'' respectively, with no known shared etymology.

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=Example texts=

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| IPA =  

| translation = We fled to Amzig from Miyoren after the People of the Spear sacked the city.

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