Ancient Selcian

Ancient Selcian is a now extinct language that was spoken by the Selcians, an ethnic group which dominated much of Arros during the First Age, and before The Long Winter brought the Orromians from Enaskia in the west, and the Naurcians from Old Naurcia to the east. Despite the language now being extinct, it gave birth to numerous other languages, which are still spoken today by tens of millions of people in Arros.  

History

It is unknown when ancient Selcian first formed, or where exactly in Arros it first spawned. Nevertheless, by the end of the First Age, groups of people, mostly hunter gatherers and nomads from the Peryn forest, all the way to The Fork, including most of central Arros, spoke regionally mutually intelligible dialects of the same basic language.   However, as centuries past, and with the arrival of the Long Winter, these groups, who were at most, very early farmers, were hit very hard. The small amount of trade happening between tribes stopped as each community, including their dialect became isolated. This eventually lead to the creation of separate Selcianic languages by the start of the Second Age.   With the arrival of the Orromians from the Continent of Enaskia in the west, and the expansion of Naurcians in the east and south, these groups, who were now speaking different Selcianic languages, were forced to either assimilate with the newcomers, or migrated elsewhere, usually to central Arros.   Those that migrated towards Central Arros, are known today as the Selcianic peoples, and speak a family of languages that are all part of the Selcianic family. Some of them, mostly those that are closer to each other geographically, are somewhat mutually intelligible. Because of that last fact, and the high number of migrations into each other's territory, a large number of stories, legends and idioms, that used to be told in Ancient Selcian, were now shared between each other, in their own respective languages.