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'''Dhannuá''' (''dhannuá bhlóar'' [[User:Chrysophylax/Sandbox/IPA_for_Dhannuá|[ˈdʱannuaː ˈbʱloaːr]]] or ''dhannua aurónar'' [[User:Chrysophylax/Sandbox/IPA_for_Dhannuá|[ˈdʱannuaː ˈauroːnar]]]), also known as '''Aurónian''' is a [[Lúsanic languages| Lúsanic]] language, itself a branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in the archipelago of Aurónar. It is a continuation of [[Middle Dhannuá]], the official language used by courts during the [[Lúreian kingdom]], which in turn descends from the insular [[Old_Dhannuá#Dánair |Dánair]] dialect of [[Old Dhannuá]], spoken during the [[Lúsan Empire]].
'''Dhannuá''' (''dhannuá bhlóar'' [[User:Chrysophylax/Sandbox/IPA_for_Dhannuá|[ˈdʱannuaː ˈbʱloaːr]]] or ''dhannuá aurónar'' [[User:Chrysophylax/Sandbox/IPA_for_Dhannuá|[ˈdʱannuaː ˈauroːnar]]]), also known as '''Aurónian''' is a [[Lúsanic languages| Lúsanic]] language, itself a branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in the archipelago of Aurónar. It is a continuation of [[Middle Dhannuá]], the official language used by courts during the [[Lúreian kingdom]], which in turn descends from the insular [[Old_Dhannuá#Dánair |Dánair]] dialect of [[Old Dhannuá]], spoken during the [[Lúsan Empire]].


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|states = The Island States of Aurónar
|states = The Island States of Aurónar
|nation = The Island States of Aurónar
|nation = The Island States of Aurónar
|speakers = 3.2 million
|speakers = 32 thousand
|date = 2011
|date = 2011
|familycolor = Indo-European
|familycolor = Indo-European
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One thing that is certain from analysing the sample of Early Dhannua given by the Samarkand stele is that already at this stage the accusative marker had become -n, PIE ''*septḿ̥'' has become ''septan'' and a coda-final voicing of the dative –ōt > -ōd. The third person plural is still present in its entirety. There is also a formation of a verbal adjective with ''-to'' as seen in ''kaptod''.
One thing that is certain from analysing the sample of Early Dhannua given by the Samarkand stele is that already at this stage the accusative marker had become -n, PIE ''*septḿ̥'' has become ''septan'' and a coda-final voicing of the dative –ōt > -ōd. The third person plural is still present in its entirety. There is also a formation of a verbal adjective with ''-to'' as seen in ''kaptod''.


====Classical Dhannuá=====
This early form of Dhannuá, also known as ''Old Dhannuá'' later gave way to its slightly more known descendant Classical Dhannuá, also known as ''dhānnwa lūsana'' during the Lúsan Empire. Several hundreds of fragments have been preserved from north-eastern Europe, mostly consisting of votive inscriptions, imperial records and various contracts of the formula ''I trade five cows, three pigs for…''. A small insular variety - Dánair - known from imperial records only as  is the most probable ancestor of [[Middle Dhannuá]].
In imperial records, this "island speak" was considered as "another" sister to Classical Dhannuá as evidenced by this inscription dating to the reign of the scholar-king [[History of ISA#Monarchic_period|Lúthais]]'''.
:''Bhōzōiōm Lūdhas peri sar sa dānaizā dhānnwa ta bhōzānd sann i nissīr sei ta izd sa aliūzella swēsor dhānnwar Lūsanar. Lannarīzānd sēseid R rōd Z ca aliūzella aljūza sei''
:'I Lúthais, say of that, that dánaizian tongue that they speak in the isles, that it is yet another sister of the tongue of Lúsan. They have changed for themselves r for z and other strange things.'
In truth the Dánair dialect appears to bave been highly conservative as many of Middle Dhannuán forms appear to be closer to the reconstructed and encountered words of Old Dhannuá than Classical Dhannuá.


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