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<p>Created page with &quot;&#039;&#039;&#039;Old Omban&#039;&#039;&#039; (also known formally as &#039;&#039;&#039;Helombesh&#039;&#039;&#039;) was a language spoken from around 1,400 to 800 years ago in and around the <a href="/wiki/Gusu_Sea" title="Gusu Sea">Gusu Sea</a>, including parts of modern O...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Old Omban&#039;&#039;&#039; (also known formally as &#039;&#039;&#039;Helombesh&#039;&#039;&#039;) was a language spoken from around 1,400 to 800 years ago in and around the [[Gusu Sea]], including parts of modern [[Omba]], [[Sharai]], southern [[Hasmala]], and eastern [[Khutu]]. It is the immediate ancestor of [[Ombesh]] spoken in the [[Omban monarchy]] and [[Omban Empire]]. It may have been spoken by as many as a million people at its peak. There is no ready divide between Old Omban and Ombesh, but rather, a gradual transition. It is clear that by the beginning of the Empire, the language was firmly Ombesh, based on the language of extant Ancestors from the period.<br /> <br /> Some of the features that were characteristic of Old Omban include a mood system (indicative / imperative / optative / subjunctive), a much less well-developed set of aspect morphemes, and a wider range of diphthongs in vowel phonology. There are still a small number of Ancestors who speak Old Omban, although, since it was extinct by the time the Corps developed, these are ancestors whose bodies happen to have survived at a time when burial in the earth was the custom. Modern knowledge of Old Omban comes mainly from these Ancestors, since, although it was a written language, very few inscriptions from this period have survived.<br /> <br /> {{nem}}<br /> {{ashnabis}}</div>

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