The reason Urban Basanawa is written using Kandji and Kanas: view article

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Urban Basanawa speakers have a variety of origins, some of them are descendant of European-origin peoples, but most of them are of East-Asia or Southeast-Asia origin.

It is known that in the place where the direct predecessor of the modern Urban Basanawa, called Saxish, was spoken, a group of Japanese-descendant people was saxonized, so they adopted Saxish as their daily language, but later, those Japanese-descendant people decided to find their own culture, so they went to a place called The Reedland(Urban Basanawa: だ葦原, IPA: /də ri:dlant/), which was a swampy area at the Midland area of the "Main Island"(the most culturally and politically important island in "De Niuland", the planet where Urban Basanawa is spoken), in order to have a free land to revive their traditional culture, those Japanese-descendant people who moved to The Reedland were called "Reedlanders"

The Reedlander successfully revived many aspects of Traditional Japanese culture, but they failed to revive the Japanese language, most people still spoke Saxish, so they chose another way to compensate it: writing Saxish using a Japanese-derived script to write their own language and use Japanese as a superstratum. As the government of Reedlanders eventually unified the whole "Main Island" and even all the community of Saxish speakers, writing the language using a Japanese-derived script became the norm, and the original Latin-derived writing system for Saxish eventually became obsolete. ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article

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