Dushtoo

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Dushtoo
Indo-European

Daytanistan

The Dushtoo language is is an Indo-European language which has existed for over three thousand years in one form or another. Originally spoken by the Daytar tribes of ancient Daytanistan, it was heavily influenced by the corrupted Greek dialect spoken by the Ashtoo tribes which settled Daytanistan in the second century AD, and subsequently by Farsi and Arabic, brought to Daytanistan a thousand years later by the Zirkshe tribes. It has no native alphabet, although since the Straw Hat Revolution the government of Daytanistan has standardised the use of the Latin alphabet for writing Dushtoo, for the simple expedient that it was cheaper to import typewriters which used the Latin alphabet. Prior to that time, the Greek alphabet and Arabic alphabet were both used almost equally as much for writing in Dushtoo. In these alphabets, Dushtoo is spelt Δυϸτω (Greek), and ذوسته (Arabic).