Stolen from the mother of all civilization, Seshweay. It's a stunning coincidence that you were founded after Seshweay City-States had begun writing...
The Rebuttal of Igaen Laoreda, Faronun Historian
Please my good sir, have a look at the evidence. It is clear that Faronun written languages developed independently of other civilizations.
Let us consider the Arkage.
Language(s): The writing is cuniform. Tense, not word order, is used to determine the context of speaking.
A relationship is highly unfeasible, due to the radically different natures of Arkage and Faronun language- Arkage is Cuneiform, while Faronun is a system of consonants appended to a vowel line.
Or the Seshweay.
Language(s):
Seshweay speak one language, however from region to region it varies heavily with different dialects being the norm. The most spoken version is perhaps with a hint of humour High Seshweay spoken primarily by the elite in business and civil interactions it is characteristic of the Seshweay language as a whole; Complex.
Seshweay between Ancestral groups will speak to each other differently to those outside the group using different greetings and changing the formality of the speech and changing the verb endings and even in the more extreme cases omitting whole sounds.
Seshweay is characterised as a language group by its extremely complex sense of timing, events of in the past, present and future have sub categories, those events which happen in the distant past and in the close past have different sentence construction. Similarly events which are happening in the present and those which have been resolved in the present have different construction. Throw into that a completely different approach to speaking about the ancestors and possible futures and the average non-native-speaker is unlikely to ever learn.
The word Seshweay means variously, people, the people, the four cities which claim to be the only real Seshweay, culture, the world, the heavens and a great many things beside (what context it is being used in is generally codified directly after or before the word is used, generally, Seshweay humour is composed of forgetting to codify the exact usage properly).
By this record, the Seshweay had not yet developed the written language for which it was later so famous. It is entirely possible that Seshweay developed their language at a later point, in tandem or influenced by the Arkage.
Perhaps the Hu'ut?
Language(s): Hu'ampaibve. The language is quite rough and blabbering. Words are very long, and are pronounced very fast. Fx a sentence could be "Uijjanbekevbk sevikla mub've a'ini hubvawbkio dhaes", said at the same speed as "My dog ate it". There is major traces of a more simple language, Ujji, in the south (a sentence could be "Limbje tatuop klbe doc' ").
While the closely interwined history of ancient Farou and the Hu'ut Empire makes a relationship entirely possible, the Hu'ut had not yet developed written language, and the two languages are so radically different that it is almost unimaginable that they could be expressed with the same alphabet.
Now, let us consider historical records regarding the early culture of Farou.
Language(s): Farouese is a very smooth language, with many complex vowel sounds and soft consonants. It is fairly loosely structured, though there is typically a subject-object-action order in sentences. The written form of the Farou language uses a simple alphabet, typically carved into clay. The letters consist of a system of dots and straight lines.
What is understood to be the origins of the Faronun language developed independently of any known civilization. The consensus of popular belief, our own mythology, and our historical understanding is that the language was first developed as the linear system which is now used to express our vowels. It was used as way to write down tone for music, quite similarly to the way that we can notate our music in modern Faron.
One other possibility remains, however.
Language(s): The writing system evolved from pictures to a crude alphabet containing 2 dozen characters. Writing is done in clay, until a more suitable method is obtained. There is a dialect of the language spoken by the lower class (Trihi) and a more sophisticated version spoken by the upper and trader class (Triha).
It is noted that today, Faronun script makes use of 16 consonants and a vowel line. It is entirely possible that the use of consonants in ancient Trilui's alphabet was adopted by the scribes of early Farou, allowing our early systems to develop into a full-fledged written script. However, it remains equally possible that the consonants too were developed within Farou.
I will conduct further research and maintain our correspondence.
-Igaen Laoreda