Bagura

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Bagura is the "official" national language of the Centralized Mountain States of Snefaldia, but is hardly universal. It is main language of Dayan and southern Sring Issa.
Common English phrase translated into Bagura using fa'er, nilati, and Karakish Script

The government uses Bagura as a national language for lack of anything else, consequently almost all Snefaldians are able to understand at least rudimentary Bagura phrases. In Dayan and parts of South Sring Issa, where the language is the major tongue, fluency in the other regional tongues is encourage.

The fa'er system is used to write the language, as well as most latin-based languages not indigenous to Snefaldia.

History

The origins of Bagura lie in the proto-languages of the Dayan basin. Proto-Dayan languages developed from the lost tongues of nomadic pastoralists and horticulturists that settled into agriculture in Dayan, appearing in the early 5th century C.E. as Pa`Gura, or Old Bagura.

Pa`Gura coalesced from various regional dialects as the feudal states of the Dayan Basin grew in strength, and in 700ce cultural diffusion from the developed states in Sring Issa introduced the Karakish Script script into Dayan, and Pa`Gura became a written language.

Linguistic evolution and diffusion ocurred for several hundred years, with cultural borrowing from the Sringi and Bajeong developing the language further, and in 1035 when Edram Ta'us conquered Serasarda and the advent of the Dayaniram, Pa`Gura hit its high point.

Old Bagura waned as a literary language as Sringi and Allashan tongues experienced a resurgence, and in 1215 Kshayatha appeared in the west with the Amershaman Medrahov. With the development of Aatem Nal and the use of Sringi tongues, Old Bagura lost its importance as a written language and was relegated to a peasant tongue.

In the 1395, however, when an Arsathae began a survey of Snefaldian languages that the language appeared again. In his analysis, the Arsathae translated a number of Dayaniram-era texts, using the new fa'er script that had been introduced with the Medrahov. Because of his unfamiliarity with the language (due to a refusal to interact with the peasants that spoke it) and an inability to read archaic Dayan variant of Karakish, he transliterated the language in the terms of his Sringi tongue, modifying it and developing it into a new form. Aatem Nal, which at this point was excercising control over Dayan, introduced the language as the "proper" tongue for the Dayan people, based on ancient texts, and mandated the teaching of the new "Pagura" in all schools, forcing the fa'er script on the Dayan.

This tongue was unfamiliar to the people who continued to use Pa`Gura, but it was similar enough that the young speakers of Pagura could understand their elders, and Old Bagura was gone within 100 years. Pagura, or Middle Bagura as it is identified today, became the "house tongue" of Dayan people, who spoke it to one another while using Sringi languages when dealing with Aatem Nal or the Medrahov.

In 1525 and the victories of Dain-da-Hol and the reforms of Aatem Nal, Sringi was abandoned as the language of the faith and official persecution of Dayan was ended. Bagura flourished again, entering the High Bagura phase which lasted until 1825 and the end of the Segovan period. In 1825 another Arsathae engaged in a more informed survey of languages, and established standardized grammar and forms for Bagura, which continue to be used to this day.