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Amazon is an ancient language, the earliest form Proto-Amazon (PA) estimated to date back over 4000 years. It predates PIE and even after the first Indo-Europeans entered Europe, Amazon appears to have stayed isolated for hundreds of years with very few loans making it into the language. One of the oldest attested loan words is yǫǫplo (apple) which ultimately descends from PIE *h₂ébōl although the exact origin is uncertain.
Amazon is an ancient language, predating the arrival of the first Indo-Europeans in Europe and appearing to either share loans or be the source of loans in several ancient daughters of PIE. The oldest reconstructed form of Amazon is Proto-Amazon (PAm; Amazon: Raxhlaxiiccill) that is believed to have been spoken in Central and Eastern Europe prior to and during the Indo-European invasions of the continent, approximately 4000-2000 years ago.
The first linguist to approach the question of historical changes in the Amazon language was the Polish linguist Czesław Gniewek who is also credited for creating the first standardised orthography for Amazon and for being the father of Amazon linguistics. Gniewek saw correspondences between many modern Amazon words and noted how the Polish dialect, which was the dialect that he primarily worked with being the nearest to his home, differed significantly from other dialects, both phonologically and in its lexicon. Gniewek also noted however how words in different dialects, despite differing in meaning, clearly had shared histories as with the Adriatic Dialect word ylǫ̃nhau /ʎɔ̃ŋ.au̯:/ meaning "to snare; to trap by the leg"and the Polish Dialect word yélõõ'aa /jelõ:ʔa:/ "to restrict; to prevent".
Gniewek's work focused primarily on the Renaissance, Medieval and Ancient stages of the language as recorded by various European peoples and sparingly by the Ancient Romans and Greeks. The main method he employed was internal reconstruction as Amazon has no known genetic relatives, comparing variants of the same word in the modern dialects as well as the changes that loan words both into and out of the language had undergone, allowing Gniewek to deduce many ancestral forms and historical sound change rules. His book Fonetyczna i Gramatyczna Historia Laxiiccill
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