Abbasian languages

Abbasian
العباسية Al Abbasiyah
Native to	Shiraqi Belt Bahyrani Region Northern Hylasia
Native speakers	61,120,000
Language family	Tayo-Hylasian Ahummic Abbasian Abbasian
Writing system	Abbasian Script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

The Abbasian languages are a group of languages originating in southern Abaria and part of the Ahummic branch of the Tayo-Hylasian language family. They are spoken natively by approximately 61 million people in the Shiraqi Belt, Bahrayni region, and northern Hylasia.

All attested Abbasian languages descend from Old Abbasian, a prestige dialect used in the western Shiraqi region and the language in which most Hamin religious texts are written in. The language was spread across Northern Hylasia and Southern Abaria by both the various Hamin emirates and a larger mercantile Abbasian diaspora, and became a central language of religion, commerce, and governance. While the Catabole and the ensuing Great Fitna heavily reduced the geographic area of Abbasian and exacerbated to its division into multiple languages, Old Abbasian and its descendants still maintain a key role in the Hamin faith and in the day-to-day business of the region.

Languages

Standard Abbasian

Standard Abbasian, oftentimes called Abbasian, is a standardized variety of Old Abbasian used in Hamin religious service.

Shiraqi

The Shiraqi languages are the largest branch of the Abbasian languages, and are spoken by approximately 35 million people in the densely-populated Shiraqi Belt. Almost all Shiraqi languages are descendants of Classical Shiraqi, the court language of the Emirate of Sumrut. These languages carry extensive influence from Ifrahi, Mizbehi, Merite, and lately Hyacinthean. Shiraqi has three standardized varieties: the Wajji Standard used in states aligned with Mizbeh and by Shiraqi rebel groups in Nirmush, the Qamarite Standard used in states aligned with Razan, and the Tahirian Standard used in Ghuria. Linguistically, these varieties are differentiated by sources of lexicon and minor differences in grammar.

Hylasian

Approximately 17 million people speak Hylasian varieties of Abbasian, mostly concentrated in coastal cities in a region stretching from the southern reaches of [XXX] to modern Adanal. First spread by a mercantile Abbasian diaspora in the 10th and 11th centuries, the Hylasian varieties of Abbasian rose to prominence with the rise of the Mustasads and the [Adanali !Ottomans]. While most closely related to the Bahrayni languages, the Hylasian dialects exhibit a staggering variety, attributed to overlapping Abbasian ancestor dialects and various influences from Esophite, Azethite Ifrahi, etc., that has made them hard to classify.

Jarifi

Jarifi is a macrolanguage spoken by the Jarifi people, a Calesian Ahummic ethnic group descended from itinerant Abbasian tribes. Spoken by approximately 8 million people in eastern Calesia, Jarifi carries an extensive degree of influence from Hernician languages, most notably Astarian, Sacarian, Olcabrian, and Hyacinthean.