Why do the people of Fruma speak Wynnic?

I don't see any plausible way for Wynnic to have spread to Fruma, especially given its isolation. Am I missing something important?

...In ancient Japan, people are said to have used Chinese grammar in writing while speaking Japanese. Could something similar explain Fruma's language situation?

 

Alternatively, what if Wynnic was an artificial language, created to unify the languages of all the colonies, much like Esperanto?

 

Actual wynnic is old-Olmic and iirc doesn't appear in Fruma (its runes are in Tahkashtel). The language modernly spoken in wynn is the same as in Fruma since both derive from Tahkashtel (Most western Wynn cities were founded by the Tahkashtel culture). IE modern Fruma and modern wynn both speak the same language "post-Tahkashtel" or whatever you want to call it. True "wynnic" isn't spoken in wynn, they speak the same language Fruma speaks. (Assuming you're talking about the lack of language barrier)

 

Tahkashtel and (Modern) Wynnic does not share the grammer or words, does it?

 

Technically not but neither does modern Fruman. Tahkashtel is a dead language a lot like Latin. I think the implication is that the modern populace of Fruma and Wynn both speak the same language descendent from Tahkashtel and ancient Wynnic had little effect on what modern Wynnic is. In other words, ancient Wynnic didn't influence modern Fruman and create a plothole. It's the opposite, ancient Fruman (Tahkashtel) influenced modern wynnic (the language spoken in wynn, not modern Olmic).

 

However, apparently the Dernel language has a grammar quite similar to Tahkashtel. Technically, was there any need to make Tahkashtel's grammar so different from English in the first place?

 

After all, I think it's more reasonable to assume that the language shared in 188 BP was Tahkashtel rather than Modern Wynnic. For it to have evolved into Wynnic through the same process in both Wynn and Fruma, there would have needed to be free and reciprocal movement of people between the two regions by 3 AP.

 

The theory I currently consider the most plausible is that the language shared with the people of Nemract in 188 BP was actually Wynnic, and that the people of Fruma had already been using Wynnic in their everyday speech long before then. However, based on the available written records, it seems possible that they were still using the Tahkashtel script at that time.

Considering that Tahkashtel is an Asian-inspired language, particularly one seemingly modeled after Japanese, I think it is entirely plausible that people wrote using Tahkashtel while speaking Wynnic, much like how the Japanese historically wrote in Classical Chinese, following Chinese grammar, but read it according to the grammar of Old Japanese.

Of course, this would require some historical background to explain how such a situation came about.

One possibility is that Wynnic had already been established as the spoken language in northern ancient Fruma, while the language of the Dernel people (which we still know very little about, though I suspect it may be connected to the wastelands; perhaps the wastelands update will shed some light on this?) had spread throughout ancient Fruma as a written language.

This theory seems to explain everything quite neatly. If we replace northern ancient Fruman with Old Japanese, Wynnic with Japanese, and the Dernel language with Chinese, the entire situation closely mirrors the history of languages in Japan.

Since I'm Japanese, this is a very intuitive comparison for me, though I'm not sure how easy it will be for people from other countries to understand.

 

That's probably the only good answer I can think of even though it does have its issues. As an example, a 78AP written journal during the siege of Detlas doesn't use Tahkshatel names or script (though this is obviously an example of outdated content). I think the simple answer is probably that loosely the languages do use the system you propose (the parallels to Asian languages seem intentional I'm sold on them as well) but the devs haven't fleshed out the idea or fully implemented it leading to plot holes.