Aparnovosi
Like the Aparnovosi themselves, their language is the product of milennia-old fusions of Wythian, Alessan, Arnt Battini, and other influences. Spoken Aparnovosi is noted as being versatile and expressive, maintaining its character in the voluble, rapid speech of crowded marketplaces and the busy decks of ships, as well as the clear, well-enunciated traditions of stately oration and monastic chants. In both statecraft and everyday use, speech is often accompanied by a wide array of hand gestures and body language. While it is not known for certain which informed the other, elements of the oratory Chironomia have often trickled "downwards" into forms suitable for everyday use, largely as a product of the lively civic culture which permeated virtually every aspect of urban Aparnovos (and which, at least according to the Aparnovosi themselves, lends their ships' crews superior cohesion, order, and effectiveness at sea). That said, the Aparnovosi concept of "order" is often imperceptible to foreigners who find themselves visiting a raucous quayside market; instead, the efficiency and thrift of Aparnovosi transactions are buried beneath a dizzying and somewhat contradictory chorus of shouts and gesticulations.
In other circles, particularly high politics and religious life, language and Chironomia are used in tandem to establish strict and otherwise invisible systems of precedence and ceremony, with, for instance, the reading out of court titles in a particular tone indicating that some action or ritual should commence, or the intonations of chants helping to choreograph religious rites. In public oration, hand gestures and body language are often used to telegraph the intent of the speaker to as wide an audience as possible, as those viewing and listening from the back of a theatre or public square may be unable to hear every word. In the recent centuries before the fall of the city, however, this had become less integral and more ceremonial as Aparnovosi architecture had become so refined as to provide excellent acoustics over large areas, sometimes assited by magical artifice.