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The History of the Karenthian Language
The Karenthian language currently has no confirmed relations, however it is speculated that it is related to Versian, which is a variant of the Indo-European Celtic Variety, and that the languages split apart around 13500 BCE due to the Karenthian peoples leaving mainland Asia and going into modern-day Holy Karenland. The language was originally written off of paper, coming from the native Great Krei Tree, and used the sap from the tree as ink. The language originally consisted of a system of connected dots and lines, with 6 characters (dots or lines) per letter, and the arrangement of these showing the letter. Karenthian language originally had a letter for the V and CH sounds, and didn't have the Þ to represent the TH sound.When the English colonized the island, they introduced the Latin alphabet to the nation, which they adopted. The Þ was added, and the V and CH letters started to be ignored. This was only further exacerbated when the printing press was introduced to Holy Karenland a few years before the civil war. The English printing press was used for this, however when Holy Karenland broke away, the English took their printing presses back, so the Karenthians imported them, specially designed, from Genoa. This contained the Þ, but the norweigans forgot the V and CH letters, so Holy Karenland started using different similar looking letters for replacements, such as J for the CH letter, which was used in all texts from then onwards, and the CH and V letters are now nowhere to be found in the Karenthian language.