Altsprech

Altsprech (translated "old language") is a mostly-dead and banned language once spoken in the Lanborg Empire together with Tungmal. Today, Tungmal lived on, while Altsprech remained in the controversial past.

When Lanborg as first established, old Tungmal was present, yet was spoken by very few families. Altsprech was spoken mroe 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.