User:Ooswesthoesbes/History of the Oceana Languages

Even though there are many Oceana Languages, they share a, partly, common history. Most Oceana Languages are extinct nowadays, though two are still alive, Hurbanovan English and Narasha 'Oshenna.

Immigrants
It all started back in the 1870's and 1880's, when groups of Slovak and Polish people came to Hurbanova. They had to learn a very basic English vocabulary. It was a list of 100 words, used in everyday speech. In order to make something clear, they had to use words of their own language. This was the beginning of two new languages, Nárečie (based on Slovak and English) and Jazýk (based on Polish and English) The 100 words can still be found as the few words of English origin in Narasha 'Oshenna. Because that list didn't contain 'to be', that verb was of Slovak or Polish origin, for example in Nárečie people used byť, which later on developed into the Narasha 'Oshenna bite.

The little group of American people living in Oceana started to use Slovak and Polish words too. Their language contained a higher number of English words and was mostly used as a Lingua Franca, to communicate with Slovak and Polish people. Not to communicate with theirselves. Their language was called Mineworkers' English or Šachtaman Anglický, which would be Sheckman Anglitsha in modern Oceana.

Shifts
The Polish Jazýk was later on overrun by the Slovak Nárečie. The language couldn't hold its purity and at the end of the 1880's the first shifts started to occur.