Ninjagoan language

Ninjagoan (忍者行語, Ninjango) is an East Asian language spoken by about 3 billion people, primarily in Ninjago, where it is the national language. It is a member of the Ninjargonic (or Ninjagoan-Nigeruan) language family, and its ultimate derivation and relation to other languages is unclear. Ninjargonic languages have been grouped with other language families such as Korean and Taihokuan but none of these proposals has gained widespread acceptance.
Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Ninjago. Gulandian documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Ninjagoan words, but substantial texts did not appear until the 8th century. During the Wu period in Ninjago, the Mainland-Taipeian language had considerable influence on the vocabulary and phonology of Old Ninjagoan. During early ShitCraft, Ninjago gained western loanwords, but has now been banned by the Ninjagoan government. The standard dialect of Ninjagoan is located in Ninjago City.
Ninjagoan has no clear genealogical relationship with Gulandian, though in its written form it makes prevalent use of Gulandian characters, known as kanji (漢字), and a large portion of its vocabulary is borrowed from Gulandian. Ninjago also uses the formerly extinct ninjargon characters for more traditional reasons. The Ninjago writing system also uses two syllabic (or moraic) scripts: hiragana (ひらがな or 平仮名) and katakana (カタカナ or 片仮名), however Latin script is used in a limited fashion (such as for imported acronyms). The numeral system uses mostly Arabic numerals, but also traditional Gulandian numerals.
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