Baratawla language

Baratawla (norāwe aBārátawḻe [nɔraːwe əˈbaːrãtəʊɭɛ]), often known as Ucian (norāwe aUcye [nɔraːwe əˈɯtɕʲɛ]) and constitutionally recognized as Baranorawe (lit. the language), is a Tawlic language spoken predominantly by the Baratawla people in the AIralajaka island of Ucia, and is one of the official languages of that country, along with Khaba. It is one of the only few surviving Uciac languages, along with the closely related Polungitian and the more distantly related Zahamese. Baratawla is a pluricentric language, with four main dialects spoken around the country, the most spoken variety being Umyaja.

Classification
Baratawla is classified as a part of the Uciac branch of the Southern Tawlic languages, as it is closer to other fellow Uciac languages but distinct from several Tawlic languages such as Polungitian, Irjysian, and others. It is one of the few surviving Uciac languages, as many of Baratawla's close relatives have become extinct as a result of the extreme spread of the language itself, and thus those languages fell out of use.

Baratawla shares several grammatical features with the Proto-Tawlic language, but both are not mutually intelligible with each other. Its earliest forms shared most features with fellow other Tawlic languages, specifically the Southern branch. They were also mutually intelligible with Irjysian, which belongs to the Irjysic branch, but due to the drastic change of Baratawla, both have been classified as different langauges.

History
The modern-day Baratawla language was derived from the southern dialects of the Proto-Tawlic language, which later evolved into several languages. Much of the locals in the Ucian islands were speaking some form of Proto-Tawlic, although it differed from place to place. All of these dialects were later united into a distinct language when both islands united to form the Union of Ucia in 224 AD. Later, Baratawla-language literature began to be skyrocketed, with the rise of prominent poets like Mendu Khalawaltune Sinizi.

Baratawla, at the time, was the closest language to the Proto-Tawlic language, and was often referred to as the "Tawlean language" until the 19th century AD. It started to lose its mutual intelligibility with its fellow other Tawlic languages after heavy exposure to Nesionytan vocabulary during the 1300s, when Ucia was a part of the Nesionytan Empire. Nasalized vowels were almost entirely removed from the language, but their presence in several dialects saved them from extinction in the main variety.

Due to the great loss of original Tawlic words, the Uciac abugida ceased to be used for the Baratawla language at the end of the 16th century, being replaced with the Kubusa script, also used to write the Khaba language. Subsequently, with the rise of Baratawla thinkers and philosophers, the speakers of the language gradually reverted back to using the Uciac script to write. Traditionally written using seals, the first Baratawla text written on paper dates back to 1623, due to the conservative views of the Ucians at the time.

With heavy colonial influence, such as with the of Ucia in 1745, the Uciac script was abandoned again and was replaced with a modified Latin script. The Khaba language also began to use the script, but was not as heavily influenced by the as Baratawla. Loanwords borrowed from the language accounted up to 13% of Baratawla's vocabulary at the time of Ucia's independence from France in 1829, which were later replaced with pure Tawlic words due to the subsequent "de-Francization" of the country under Munabi Ulebawkan.

Grammar
Baratawla uses the order, and is an, with most dependent clauses and phrases being formed together as a single word. For example, the phrase "walking across the street" is said as Amudewāyākūl, but in some phrases, words are not joined together, as with Agāme xonābi, meaning "eating fruits". Gendered nouns exist in Baratawla, with nouns ending with a consonant being deemed as male and the ones ending with a vowel being deemed as female. In this case, identifiers are used. There are two words meaning "in", used depending on the noun. For male nouns, te is used, and for the female ones, ki is used.

The language has nine grammatical cases, which are, , , , , , , , and. It also uses prefixes and suffixes to determine verbal tenses, with pronouns also being attached to the verb, creating new words focused on a single verb. Noun are quite common in Baratawla. These Baratawla sentences below are shown with glosses for higher understanding of the language:


 * Toran yurgaBārátawḻe Tor an yurg  aBārátawḻe  I can speak- PRES   Ucian  "I can speak Ucian."
 * Śinji Nāqurogkyel Śin ji nā  qurog-kyel  3.PRO CL-[ female],  INT ,  beauty-  CL-[adj] "She is very beautiful."
 * Man tibrúqa Man tib  rúqa  One-bowl  rice  "One bowl of rice."