Brenadine Tainean: Difference between revisions

| name            = Brenadine Tainean

| altname          = Neo-Tainean, Reform Tainean

| nation          = {{flag|Almadaria}}<br>{{flag|Arona}}<br>{{flag|Rumahoki}}

| agency          = [[Tainean Linguistic Academy]]

| map              = Brenadine_Tainean_orthographic.svg

| glotto          = tain1254

'''Brenadine Tainean''' ({{lang|bt|Tainien Brenadien}}), known in [[Almadaria]] and [[Rumahoki]] as '''Reform Tainean''' ({{lang|bt|Tainien Reforme}}), also known as '''Neo-Tainean''' ({{lang|bt|Neau-Tainien}}), is a [[Latino-Tainean language]] in the {{wp|Arawakan languages|Cronan language family}}. Originating in the year [[1904]], today Brenadine Tainean is an official language in [[Almadaria]], [[Arona]], and [[Rumahoki]], as well as a regional language in [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] [[Equatorial Ostiecia]]. Presently, there are over over 45 million speakers of Brenadine Tainean.

[[Latino-Tainean pidgin]] began as the result of contact between the Taineans and the [[Latinic people|Latins]] during antiquity. This creole utilised Latino-Tainean pidgins and languages as a {{wp|lingua franca}} between the two groups. With the influx of [[Bergendii]] Protestant refugees in the 19th Century, the Latino-Tainean pidgin soon became [[Burgo-Tainean creole]] with loanwords from [[Burgoignesc language|Burgoignesc]] finding their way into Tainean vocabulary. By [[1900]], the language had evolved into [[Brenado-Tainean creole]], and by that time the [[Academy for the Preservation of Tainean Culture]] had decided to embark on a significant reform of the creole along the lines of Burgoignesc, most notably the use of Latino-Tainean innovations alongside Burgoignesc-style spelling and grammatical construction, and so established the multi-national [[Tainean Linguistic Academy]] in [[1902]], taking in Tainean intellectuals from [[Equatorial Ostiecia|Ostiecia]], [[Arona]], and what's now northern [[Rumahoki]]. In [[1904]], these reforms culminated in the birth of Brenadine Tainean, with the new language starting to be used in Ostiecian schools in [[1905]], in Aronan schools in [[1907]], and in schools in what's now northern Rumahoki in [[1911]], displacing native [[Tainean language|Tainean]] dialects as the most commonly-spoken form of Tainean by [[1952]].

The development of Brenadine Tainean was also influenced by a long series of contact with foreign peoples with their own languages, particularly Burgoignesc. This left a profound mark of their own on the language, so that Brenadine Tainean shows some similarities in vocabulary and grammar with languages outside its linguistic {{wp|clade|clades}}, with Burgoignesc loanwords being mutually intelligible in sound between the two languages. Because of this, some scholars have argued that Brenadine Tainean may be considered a {{wp|mixed language}} or a {{wp|creole language}} much like its linguistic ancestors. Although the great influence of Burgoignesc on the vocabulary and grammar of Brenadine Tainean is widely acknowledged, most specialists in language contact do not consider Brenadine Tainean to be a true mixed language, most especially with the advent of [[re-Taineanisation]] within the [[Tainean Linguistic Academy]] throughout the [[20th Century]].

Brenadine Tainean is classified as a Ta-Cronan language because it shares {{wp|language change|innovations}} with native Tainean dialects. These shared innovations showed that the languages have descended from a single common ancestor called Cronan. Brenadine Tainean is classified as a Brenado-Tainean language because of the heavy influence of the Burgoignesc language in terms of standardisation.