Arsyan languages
| Arsyan | |
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| Geographic distribution | Eastern Thuadia Northern Gabrielland (Arsyan realms) |
| Proto-language | Proto-Arsyan |
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| ISO 639-5 | ars |
The Arsyan langauges are a language family native to northern Gabrielland (Arsyan realms) spoken almost exclusively by the Arsyan people. It comprises the majority of the languages spoken in the Arsyan realms, and is a major language in the region. Collectively spoken by 45 million people in the Arsyan Realms, it is the second most-widely spoken langauge family in Gabrielland. Unlike the Gabrielt languages which possess Standard Gabrielt, the Arsyan languages does not have a single standardized langauge. The Sangur language of the Sanguric branch serves as the lingua franca for the region, though many still speak their own native languages at home.
The development of the Arsyan languages is a peculiar one, since the original Arsyan peoples, a germanic people related to the Bak and Sebric people, spoke a germanic tongue similar to that of their neighbors. It is widely believed that the Arsyan peoples instead learnt the langauge of the native tribes and peoples of the area and slowly stopped speaking their original germanic tongue altogether. It is widely believed that the various languages intermixed and formed a coherent register system, with the germanic variety serving as the more prestigious language and the native languages the lower variety, creating some sort of pidgin in the process. Although so, it the grammar and pronounciation of the original germanic words have subdued to the local languages, and have been treated as having been developed from the original languages of the people inhabiting the area before the arrival of the Arsyans. The Grafenlandish people are thought to have been one people group with the Arsyans, and the Grafenlandish language is thought to be the original germanic tongue which the Arsyans originally spoke.