Great post, not familiar with the language, definitely want to do more research to add more historical context for myself and learn a bit along the way. Interesting correlation with my experience with German, my first language. Moved to the US at a young age but kept conversational use at home and with family still in abroad. I decided to work on my fluency so took some classes during my undergrad, found out I was speaking a regional dialect, sounds like "slang" depending on where/how you learned the language. My family is from Hessen, my professor was from Berlin. High German is the "standard" but had never known due to lack of exposure in an educational/professional environment. After a lot of historical research I found a deep interest for how all languages progress, some meaning is gained and some is lost, or intrinsically disguised by different terminology. It's intriguing how much economics and social class norms and population mobility evolve many languages, among many other factors some of which are touched on in the blog.