True Gyr
I'gy̌rba
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True Gyr (i'gy̌rba, i.e. "the great language of Gyr/Xeo") is a term referring to the most ancient form of the Gyret languages, that which was laid down by Xeo following The Transmigration of humans from Earth to the First Planet. Due to unusual grammatical features, it was quickly supplanted by Classical Gyr, and today only exists in a few fragmentary Xeonic writings and as a reconstructed language. 

History
Before Xeo brought humans to the 1st Planet, he decided to create a language to speak with them, using his favorite grammatical features from a variety of human languages. It is recorded that he spent an intense amount of time and effort on this language, about 12 seconds. There are also early writings which claim that a part of the Core was used in its construction, but this is probably apocryphal.

"The Anecdote of the True Language" describes the transmission of the language. According to it, humans were aumically granted I'gy̌rba, which they began to use to communicate across tribal lines. In spite of the perfect proficiency granted, they found the language difficult and unwieldy to use. It was designed to explain things as Xeo, an omnipresent being who sees the world as matter, saw them. Therefore, the I'gy̌rba word for "drinking glass" is indistinguishable from "silica" and "sand," the materials which made up the "drinking glass."

To solve the problem, some humans invented new compound words. "Glass/silica/sand" came to mean simply "glass," with a derived term "glass-rock" meaning "sand." Other humans did not like this. They had come to great acclaim, both from humans and Xeo, for their mastery over the slippery language, and a simpler form undercut this authority. So they created the Academy in order to preserve the proper speech and continue lording their superiority over others.

The stories diverge here. Some say an Academician corrected Xeo on his speech. Others say that there was a stoning in the street over the compound word "glass-rock." Either way, it resolves itself with Xeo informing both groups that neither speaks the language he created, and he doesn't much mind. The Academy, already firmly rooted, continued the teaching of Classical Gyr as an auxiliary language, and the people continued creating their own Common Gyr.

This is probably mostly untrue. For example, it seems highly unlikely that the Academy dates back so early in history. It was created in order to curate libraries of geon san tablets, not uphold a proper standard of language, which is a fairly new innovation. Rather, Classical Gyr was what the people created in response to the inhuman features of I'gy̌rba, with Common Gyr being a series of newer inventions. The linguistic conservatism seen in Classical Gyr for the first five or six centuries of records is a result of constant interchange with Xeo, whose speech did not change, rather than the demands of an as-of-yet nonexistent Academy.

Linguistic Features