Jaronic languages

= Overview = The Jaronic languages are a small family of languages spoken in Malomanan which descend from Proto-Jaronic. The Proto-Jaronic language arrived in Malomanan in the 14th century with the arrival of the Teranazin people, although it is unknown where the people or the language originally came from. The Teranazin people first arrived in the north-west in small numbers where they split into two groups which spread west and east, coming into great conflict with some natives (which survives in native legends as an attack of wolf spirits due to how the Teranazin dressed in wolf pelts during war) and intermarrying with others. Due to existing alongside Sumro-Naukl languages for a long time, the modern Jaronic languages entered a sprachbund, becoming more similar to the Sumro-Letaeric languages in terms of morphology and syntax (this is besides the heavy presence of loanwords). Due to the Teranazin people having a very small presence, the Jaronic languages hold no official status in any nation. At best they are regional languages which exist in small pockets where they are the majority language.

= Name = The name "Jaronic" comes from the Old Sumrë jaron ("wolf").

= Characteristics = Jaronic languages possess a set of commonly shared features which include:


 * Active vs Passive noun classes: A gender system which classifies nouns by their ability to act as agents. In some modern languages the system has shifted to resemble the animate-inanimate system of the Sumro-Letaeric languages thanks to the sprachbund.
 * Synthetic morphology.
 * A distinction in Stative vs Dynamic verbs. Stative verbs being those that relate to states of being and experiencing ("to see, to know, to hear") and dynamic verbs being those relating to physical actions ("to run, to walk, to kill").
 * Active-Stative alignment.
 * Heavy use of ablaut.

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