Classical Arnic

Classical Arnic (Arnic: Arnahyra, lit. Arne tongue) is a language originally spoken by the Arnes of modern-day western Achysia. Modern scholarship believes Arnic to have constituted a, that is, unrelated to any known language spoken concurrently with it. The expansion and cultural hegemony of the Arnamadra, however, would see the language spread from the Arnadon, the area surrounding Old Arna, to the assimilated territories of Achysia, and subsequently throughout the Valentine and Arnic Seas.

The Arnic Vulgates, colloquial forms spoken by the lower classes 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.