Athinische (Language)

Athinische is an Umbrian language of the Aetherian language family. It is descended from Old Athinische of the Athinische Imcheren, as did all of the Umbrian languages. It's closest relative is the Zhaitker Creole, formed from the mixing of Athinische and Chevkri, and the Jconian language, a direct descendant of Athinische. It was also influenced by the local ancient Umbrian (unrelated to the Umbrian language group) and Chevkri languages present here prior to the Aetherian Migration. An Athinische-speaking person may be referred to as an Aetherian.
Athinische is the official language of the Kingdom of Aetheria.
== History ==
=== Old Athinische ===
Old Athinische near the end of the Athinische Imcheren was quite different from modern Athinische. More specifically the Capital urban dialect, which was quite formal compared to the vulgar Athinische present, which would die with no descendant after the migration. After the migration, Athinische suffered multiple grammatical reforms and the local Chevkrians and Umbrians who adapted the language mixed it and changed it with theirs, being seen in early Athinische.
=== Early modern Athinische ===
Shortly after the migration, Czar Måne of the Umbrian Empire imposed the Athinische language upon it's non-Aetherian inhabitants. This policy ended with the KATO coup and placement of Ursus Xanbiri as Apex of Umbria, however it had already Athinischified much of the area. Though, those inhabitants still spoke their local languages and mixed and mashed the two. This continued for long until the return of Måne and his election as Apex of Umbria. In the Kingdom of Aetheria, the policy was re-instated and thus it fully achieved it's goal within 5 years. Most of the language's speakers had changed it far from what formal Athinische was, resulting in the Umbrian and now Gigney (formerly Kingdom of Aetheria) agreeing to grammatically review the Athinische language, completely changing it. It would be largely unrecognizable from what was Old Athinische up until the Aetherian Spring, where Aetherian Nationalism led to Adino von Vietca ordering a new review of the language.
=== Athinische ===
Modern Athinische was formed with the National Republican Review of Athinische, provided by the Aetherian Association. With alot of Aetherian Nationalism, they kept some of the changes made post-migration and shuffled some of the grammar and grammatical rules, however much of the language was reverted to something inspired of Old Athinische. Calls to fully restore Old Athinische have been made and some communities in Russantia still speak it, but none of them have been answered. The version made during the NRRA remains more of less the one spoken at the end of Celeia (with some minor changes).
== Geographic distribution ==
It is widely distributed in the Cat's Claw Peninsula, in Haven, where it is spoke by around 15 million people. The language used to be almost the sole language of the peninsula, however the encroachment of settlers has changed this reality.
== Writing system ==
Today, the main writing system of the Athinische language is the Traveller's Script, however Athinische used to have it's own script. The script is still used commonly in the modern day and taught in schools, however the Travellification of Athinische 
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