Barban and The Recent History of The Godhead

After the discovery of the Godhead, Gnomish scholars had quickly made the godhead their own and thought it beneath them to allow scholars from other nations and races to research the Godhead. Soon after, Kinneki began to exert their diplomatic influence to pressure the Gnome's monopolization, which took an extensive amount of doing, but the pressure of the Kinnek government and likewise was exploited to the highest degree as scholars pooled their resources to gain access to the wealth of knowledge.
Soon after the Kinneki arrived, they quickly realized that the Gnomes would appease those highest in power, and effectively ban access to the lesser class of scholars; treating the Kinneki like slaves in some situations. Through protest, striking, and some higher-ups showing solidarity with the cause, they slowly were able to gain more access to the Godhead, and better treatment in Gnomish territory. 
More Kinneki arrived after the reforms, and, eventually, a semi-forceful takeover occurred over the span of three years, as the Kinneki used their diplomatic nature and propaganda to claim Gnomes as unreasonable rebels and socially deprived. The world was convinced now that Gnomes would, with their hubris and technology, cause some form of war, which culminated in the Drunkard Exile/Democratic Reclamation Reforms. The Kinneki took over control of the Godhead diplomatically, though some Gnomish representatives and soldiers remained, and Gnomish scholars were allowed to freely study the Godhead under the stipulation that anyone who remained agreeable to Kinnek authority would be treated as equals; in truth, Kinneki view Gnomes as rebels and pouty isolationist warmongers, and that bled into their treatment as second class citizens, possessing slightly fewer rights and being treated worse. Due to Gnomes believing that an individual creates great works (rather than the Kinnek belief that individuals will be unable to do the same that a team would) they themselves reinforced the Gnomish stereotype as they spent most of their time anti-socially avoiding contact with other people for various personal reasons.
As Dwarven, Elvish, Gnomish, Amalgam, and a manner of all other species arrived at the Godhead to study it, a language barrier quickly formed. Kinneki attempted to enforce that others must learn Kinnek to study the Godhead, even providing material and lessons to enable this, but it was more common for scholars to not share things still due to cultural limitations, and would put spins on the Kinnek dialect that further created a divide. A gnomish scholar ultimately created Barban, which is similar to the real-life Esperanto language. Barban was originally called so by the scholars as they saw it as a crude and unrefined language, but it caught on regardless as the Kinneki began making it a mandatory language to learn; this saw much more success as the language was impartial and far easier to learn. 
Eventually, Barban was taken back to mainland Kinnek, where it was adopted as an easy way for other species to arrive and have a universal language rather than learning the much more difficult Kinnek language. Its crude name was stripped and is called by many other things dependant on the community, but is most widely known as Common. Many people have lexicologically added new words and sayings to Barban since its introduction, and it's hard to find a community that doesn't have a few words added in for convenience.