Aztamartshi

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Introduction
Aztamartshi (Ʒ̆aḥbah Aztaμartʒ̆i / שָחבָה אזתָמָרתשע) is a language spoken on the island of Aztamart, situated in the Arabian Sea off of the coast of Oman. It is the only member of its language family besides the Xulaxani language, and is also spoken in small yet prominent enclaves in Saudi Arabia as well as parts of Yemen and Oman to a lesser extent. Aztamartshi has used a variety of writing systems over the years, however on the mainland of Aztamart, the Aztamartshi Alphabet is used, a system created in the year 500 with the newly-claimed union of Aztamartshi tribes, no less by the co-founder of Aztamart as a nation, Enver Avraha.

The number of speakers alive today is widely unknown, yet the estimate from censuses among other works is around 5.5 million.

History
As its writing systems have changed throughout the years, the language has changed with them, morphing along the years.

Pre-Union Aztamart (1000 BC-500 AD)
Many years before Enver and Tsadi Avraha united the island of Aztamart, there were a great wealth of languages contained within its regions and specific to them, all being very closely related to each other through both lexical and grammatical similarities, most likely descending from a Proto-Aztamartic language. Not much is truly known of this chapter of both Aztamartshi linguistic history as well as Aztamartshi history in general, due to the nomadic and conquering tendencies of the early Aztamartshi tribes, leaving a great plethora of this ancient evidence destroyed from the constant fighting and territorial skirmishes.

Post-Union Aztamart (500 AD - 1025 AD)
When the siblings Enver and Tsadi Avraha managed to unite the tribes of Aztamart through astonishingly peaceful means under Christianity, they had to focus on both keeping Aztamart afloat as a legitimate nation as well as maintaining the then fragile peace formed between the peoples of Aztamart. Through this, they had to unite the languages of Aztamart as well, originally using the dialect of the Qaz' region at the center of the island as the official language to be used, however they had incorporated many elements of the languages that surround Qaz' Aztamartshi, and eventually made this into what is now known as Old Aztamartshi.

Unlike the aforementioned Proto-Aztamartic language, Old Aztamartshi is very well preserved, and lives on as a liturgical language for Aztamartshi Christians as well as through the ancient literary history left behind from scribes long ago, the first being a translation of the book of Matthew. Old Aztamartshi is extinct in normal use however, and only truly survives in historical and religious applications and settings, with the highest concentration of Old Aztamartshi works and literature is stored within El-Imazakh Province at its capital.

Aztamartshi Golden Age (1025 AD - 1334 AD)
While Old Aztamartshi was still quite spoken in many areas as a form of formal speech, a more casual, common dialect began to form among the Aztamartshi people. This would form a type of Middle Aztamartshi, more akin to the modern dialect spoken today with plenty of lexical and phonological attributes being shared with the old dialect. Literature for both was plentiful during this time, as the language began to evolve with the rapidly growing culture of the island nation, and by the end of this era, the two languages became one in the form of what is now known as Modern Aztamartshi.

Imperial Age (1334 AD - 1536 AD)
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