Language in Tairghol

Language in Tairghol is fairly simple. All known languages are descended from a common ancestor: The Language of Death.
== History ==
During the pre-colonisation period during which the world's whole human population was on Halcyonia, the entire race spoke the same language. This language, the Language of Death, warped and changed its form to match the language of the dominant power on Earth. At the time of the war that led to the colonisation of Tairghol, the eminent power was the United Kingdom; hence the Language of Death took on the form of English.
Once the tyrant of Halcyonia was toppled humanity lost its immortality and the Language of Death lost its staying power. The disparate humans of Halcyonia slowly drifted back to their original languages, though there were enough humans born in Halcyonia to cement a myriad forms of pidgin English as the new 'languages'. These varies in their detachment to the original: Talorian stuck fairly close to English while Tianguese deviated completely, becoming a lot like the Cantonese language.
Over time these deviated more, forming the languages we know today. They can be split roughly into five branches: Taloric, Caharlic, Arpo-Vorsilic, Parsanic and Cordic.
* Taloric covers languages that sound like English, French, Italian and such: a mixture of Romance and Germanic languages mostly found around the Trade Lake.
* Caharlic is a group of Asiatic languages such as Huon, Tianguese and Cudumbian. These are found all over the north and west coasts of Tairghol, from Pharom to Kamkara.
* Arpo-Vorsilic languages are Slavic in nature. These dominate, obviously, Arpia and the Vorsilian states, as well as a smattering of the central Sacred Coalition.
* Parsanic languages are Arabic and Persian, found in and around Suren's Desert. They are very similar in wording and syntax; a person raised in Mamelkert can understand a Jhaladian even though, strictly speaking, they are conversing in different languages.
* Cordic languages are found on the Cordic Plains. This covers a vast variety of languages including Reman and Carusian. While not exactly accurate to group them as such, it is inefficient to do otherwise.
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