Paleo-Faronic

Paleo-faronic is a general term for the disparate language families and isolates of Faron in southeastern Adynía, which predate the modern, unrelated faronic languages, the latter which are a branch of hapalic and currently the most widely spoken ones in the region. Before the ancestors of the Faronians migrated there from the eastern Sjorgús Mountains, paleo-faronic speakers were found throughout Faron, parts of Darden, the Tó Plain and the Zóken Mountains, but are now clustered in the southern part of the Kingdom of Faron.
Such communities persisted for millennia in the Zóken Mountains as well, until they were supplanted by the dwarven Dalindreans and Fazeronians who established their own (mostly) subterranean city-states as vassals to the kingdom.

Today, paleo-faronic is made up of two language families and three isolates, of which Þinninún has a special status among faronians for being the traditional written and spoken language used by mages and other scholars, long after the native núnnans perished as a separate culture. The other ones -aside from knalótic- are limited to small communities which, despite centuries of faronian dominance, hold fast to their native tongue and customs, and while virtually all members of these communities know at least some Haþúlin -lingua franca of the kingdom-, its use is often limited to interactions with outsiders.

Modern paleo-faronic languages

Arpic

Issópic

Sipric

Prilic

Knalótic¹

Þeipic

Irtaxic
Prakótic
Þinninún

Writing System

While some paleo-faronic speakers had developed their own writing systems by the time of first contact with faronians, only the semi-syllabary used to write þinninún is still in use to any significant extent. Faronian desa alphabet has since replaced the other for the most part, aside from occasional formulaic inscriptions such as those found on grave markers or amulets.

¹Currently used solely as a liturgical language for certain rituals in the province of Knalos.

Successor Languages