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-'''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.
+'''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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+<center>
-|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.
+{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; background-color: white"
+|This page is written as though it were diegetic, 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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+</center>
+==Etymology==
+The etymology of the ethnonym ''Hraay'', and thus of the name ''ngan Hraay'', is unknown (although ''ngan'' is derived from Old Chinese 言 ''*ŋan'' "speech"). A formerly common theory is that it is related to the word ''Hraang'' "oriole" (from Old Chinese 鶬 ''*[s.r̥]ˤaŋ''), though modern consensus is that the oriole as a national symbol is a later conflation due to phonological similarity with the word ''Hraay'' rather than a direct etymological link.
+<center>
+{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; background-color: white"
+|''Hraay'' is descended from Old Chinese 蔡 ''*s.r̥ˤat-s'', from the name of the Cai state.
+|}
+</center>
+==Orthography==
+Hraayan is today written using a reduced from of the Latin alphabet, consisting of 22 letters. It makes no use of diacritics and borrowed words are always adapted to the native alphabet in official contexts, though in colloquial contexts spelling alterations are not made, and the Hraayan keyboard layout is broadly identical to the English one.
+<center>
+{| class="wikitable" style="width: 900px; text-align: center"
+!colspan="22"| Hraayan Alphabet
+|-
+|Aa || Bb || Dd || Ee || Ff || Gg || Hh || Ii || Kk || Ll || Mm || Nn || Oo || Pp || Rr || Ss || Tt || Uu || Vv || Ww || Yy || Zz
+|}
+</center>
+Through frequent reforms by the Hraayan Language Association ('' Wu Ning yi Ngan Hraay'', commonly abbreviated as ''WNNH''), Hraayan spelling is broadly up-to-date with its pronunciation, although some digraphs are used. These are are follows:
+* ''h_'' represents a voiceless approximant, as in the cases of ''hr'' and ''hw''.
+* ''_w'' represent a labialized consonant, as in the cases of ''kw'' and ''gw''.
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