Altsprech

Altsprech (translated "old language") is a mostly-dead and banned language once spoken in the Lanborg Empire (today Høvemark/Hófasviði) together with Tungmal. Today, Tungmal lived on, while Altsprech remained in the controversial past. It is comparable to German from real life.

Lore

When Lanborg was first established, old Tungmal was present, yet was spoken by very few families. Altsprech was spoken more frequently, with the city then having the name Lannburg (Altsprech) at the time, Altsprech was considered vital and more increasingly dying out, as other castles were abandoned. As trade grew due to Lanborg's port status over the next hundreds of Ð, old Åranian and similar northern languages were increasingly more important and more and more settlers came from those lands. This created a mix of languages, as Altsprech was famously difficult to learn, creating a language barrier, which made Lanborg lose lots of money.
New settlers had an easier time learning Tungmal, as some parts were mutually intelligible, making Tungmal a "language of trade and progress" and Altsprech "a language of times gone". This made Altsprech slowly turn irrelevant and Tungmal becoming the main language.
When Ari II came to reign, he wanted to make Lanborgians proud of their "independent language". Ari II stopped teaching Tungmal in schools and only allowed Altsprech to be in official signs and documents.

Today

Today it is used by exclusively far-right extremists in Lanborg, wishing to bring back the old times of the war. The teaching of the language is banned, but is questioned because it might be seen as "destruction of cultural assets". However, most of the far-right extremists are over 70Ð old and will not be present as protestors due to their life expectancy.
Debates have been brought up, whether the teaching of language should be legalized, because the language was spoken before the War of Dignity and by some should be regarded as cultural assets. The main parties of Høvemark do not agree to that and want to erase the bad times of the War of Dignity. However, it is very likely that after the death of elderly far-right extremists, teaching of the language will be allowed as it will have no links to the War of Dignity.

Altsprech	Tungmal	Åranian	Anglish	English
Alle Menschen sind vor dem Gesetz gleich	Allir menn eru jafnir samkvæmt lögum	Åle meneske er li ved Lov	All humans are matched by law	All humans are equal by law
Einar hat den Tod von hunderten Menschen verursacht	Einar olli hundruðum saklausra bana	Einar fo'åsage hundrevis a' uskylige Døsfal	Einar caused hundreds of sinless deaths	Einar caused hundreds of innocent deaths
Lannkaro zahlt Reparationen für den von Lannkaro verursachten Völkermord	Hófasviði greiðir skaðabætur fyrir þjóðarmorðin sem það olli	Høvemark betaler Erstaning for det Fokedrab, den fo'åsage	Høvemark pays reparations for the kinslayer it caused	Høvemark pays reparations for the genocide it caused