Old Red Language

**NOTE**: This page contains sections of Old Red script, for more information see the **Old Red Wiki Page**

The secondary language of the DSRR, Old Red (known as "minannigdat" by its speakers) is mainly used within prosaic text, government documents and religous texts.

As work is done on this wiki, occaisonally pages may be translated from english to Old Red. These pages are created with the same name as the english pages, except with *"mn:"*appended to the start. English should not be used in these pages, and in order to improve readability the Old Red script is not used either. Pages with Old Red translations will have a banner including a link to the translated page.

## Script

Old Red has an alphabet of 22 symbols. It is an almost direct phontic alphabet. A romanisation is used when th symbols cannot be used, as seen below. The font available on this wiki converts the romanisation to the script. The easiest way to use this is by copying one of the symbols and continuing to type what you want after it.

## History

Old red stems from the Arco-Iristac languages, which were originally spoken in the central mountain ranges of the DSRR. Early tribal movements away from this area lead to the family spreading through the country and some ways across what are today the orange and purple borders. Due to the nature of these tribes, we know very little of the early languages of the language family, however primary archaeological sources seem to indicate that the red people were divided by many mutually unintelligible languages.

The joining of the land’s four major tribes (around the year 160) led to the Arco-Iristac languages becoming semi-standardised, with a number of languages becoming close enough to be considered dialects of a single language. Other languages in the region held on in their own right and so we know of four main variations in speech just before the monarchic era of the DSRR (the mid 800s): Hunatr, the knot tribe’s sacred language; Goriztai of the western mountain people and the nearby smaller tribes; the swamp land’s Dtotalai; and the most common Prisedz.

As the new monarchy of Bollinne began to take territory in the 10th century, they spread their primary language Dtotalai. We see the once common Prisedz left only spoken in south eastern red territory and Dtotalai become the most common language in the region. Hunatr seems to have been barely affected by the wave of Dtotalai thanks to its semi-secretive nature. Goriztai barely survives the changes, being used by the small villages and Tadina in the mountains. However, most of the tribes near the mountain areas begin speaking dialects of Prisedz over time due to trade with the new monarchic kingdom, leaving it used only by some within purple borders, the Tadina, and by those deep within the western mountain ranges.

Near the end of the 17th century, an invasion from the yellow continent forced red peoples out of the south eastern peninsula, pushing Prisedz back into mainland red. Soon after, the reign of claps began, and he made Prisedz the state’s national language. The loss of religious freedom claps brought in added pressure to the other languages of the region, forcing them into further decline. Forced changes to Prisedz during his reign created a language which would be recognisable by most speakers of red today but is rarely used, whilst the old Prisedz, merged with Hunatr, became what we now know as old Red. Since then, the old red language has been preserved by its limited use in religious texts, government documents and the runic script.

Although sometimes still referred to as Prisedz or Hunatr, old red is unrecognisable from either and has no exact name in its own tongue. It often instead refers to itself as minannigdat, or ‘this whole’.