Maurestani language

Maurestani is a language spoken in northern Melania by several peoples of Mounist faith and Maurestani ethnic background.

Brought in by the Maurestani invaders on the first few decades after The Plague, it was mostly related to Iparalaspuqui. By that time, it was the language of the bureaucracy and merchants. With increasing contact with the local population of northwestern Melania (speakers of Liliance languages like Arosian and Sanpatrician), it acquired its present form. Maurestani had a significant impact in the formation of the modern forms the other languages in the region.

It was the official language of the Empire of Maurestania, even tought not even 10% of its overall population had it as a mother tongue, or even had any fluency on it. Over time, Phenixien came to be adopted as the language of the Maurestani nobility, and usage of the Maurestani language decayed. Nowadays, it is mostly spoken in the region around the Portocapitalian city of Oran (the former Imperial capital), and is also the liturgical language of the Maurestani Mounists.

Unlike most other Liliance languages, Maurestani is written with its own Maurestani alphabet rather than the Liliance alphabet.

Obsolete terms for the Maurestani language include Orabic (in Arosian, Orabique) and Pataouete.

Sample text

(A poem by Asheh al'Alalaoh, 353 AP)

The same sample text, written on the Maurestani alphabet.

Maurestani:	Sanpatrician:
Myo sidí Ibrahím ya tu uemme dolge! fente mib de nohte In non si non keris irey-me tib gari-me a ob legar-te Cuánd mio sidiello vienid ¡tan buona albischara! com rayo de sol exid en Ouahrán	Mi señor Ibrahim, ¡oh tú, hombre dulce! vente a mí de noche. Si no, si no quieres, ireme a ti, dime a dónde encontrarte. Desde mi señor ven ¡tan buenos momentos! como el rayo de sol ello surge en Orán

Arosian:	Ingallish:
Meu senhor Ibrâhim, ó tu, homem doce! venha a mim de noite. Senão, se não quiseres, eu irei a ti, diga onde encontrar-te. Quando meu senhor surge tão bons momentos! como o raio de sol ele surge em Oran	My lord Ibrahim oh you sweet man! Come to me at night. If not, if you don't want to, I will go to you, tell me where to meet you. When my lord comes what glad tidings! like a ray of sunlight he rises in Oran

[TECH: Maurestani is the Vex-equivalent to the Mozarabic language. Some material on this page was taken from the Wikipedia article on Mozarabic and from Orbis Latinus. ]