Proto-Rennic

Proto-Rennic is the reconstructed ancestor of the Rennic languages, a modern East Asian language family which notably includes the Rennyan language, the sole official language of the Republic of Rennya, an island nation in East Asia located roughly halfway between the Ryukyu Islands of Japan and Mainland China. Proto-Rennic has been only partially reconstructed as of 2023, using the comparative method, which has established that Proto-Rennic was likely a language isolate, before the language began to diverge into different dialects circa the mid-6th century AD, which dialects had more or less diverged enough by the mid-to-late-7th century AD to constitute separate, mostly mutually unintelligible languages, of which Rennyan ultimately emerged as the primary and largest Rennic language by number of speakers, dwarfing even the Raen language, let alone the eleven or more much less-spoken Rennic languages which continue to be spoken today (almost exclusively in isolated communities on small islands which are officially part of the territory Republic of Rennya, but maintain their own traditions and customs due to their long-term isolation from the main islands which the vast majority of Rennic speakers inhabit.