Arnic language

The Old Arnic language (Arnic: Arnavortha, lit. Arne tongue) is a classical language originally spoken by the Arnes of modern-day western Achysia. Linguistically, Arnic is considered a language isolate, as it is unrelated to any other known languages besides from its own daughter languages.

Arnic was originally spoken in the area surrounding Old Arna, known as the Arnadon. Through the expansion and hegemonic influence of the Ancient Arnic civilization it became the dominant language, initially in the assimilated territories of Achysia and subsequently throughout the Valentine and Arnic Seas. The Arnic Vulgates, colloquial forms spoken by the various assimilated peoples of the Empire, developed into the modern-day Arnic languages, such as Achysian, Kathic, and Ichorian. Old Arnic remained one of the main languages of science, commerce and diplomacy well into the 14th century AC. Since then, the gradual codification of Modern Arnic dictated the language's survival as a contemporary. Regardless, Old Arnic remains an important literary and liturgical language, primarily in Ecumenical Vayonism.