The Kytohan Empire was one of the greatest civilizations of the world at the height of its power. Excellent roads, scholarly guilds and wide spread education among the nobility allowed the control of a continent spanning empire with only two languages. Most of the western tribes spoke Kytai and the eastern clans spoke Haphitese. After the founding of the empire, these two languages were elevated above all others and became the twin languages of the empire. There were many regional dialects in both languages. In many ways, this single cohesive empire had two halves - the western empire and the eastern empire. This cultural separation was most apparent in the languages. This separation is still apparent in the major modern languages of Aggradar today. When the Kytohan Empire broke apart, its eight provinces evolved along separate paths, each region eventually developing its own race and language. Tomarin, Sybrenar, Hyttar and Pugnar descended from Kytai and Saradda, Vaulsk, Aukarian and Chaddamarian and descended from Haphitese.
There are no speakers of either Kytai or Haphitese alive today and so no more knows how these two languages were spoken. Scholars can only guess at pronunciation and inflection. The closest thing one will find to the original Kytai language is secambru. Some linguists believe that the secambru language is a direct descendent of Kytai. By studying the langauge of the secambru, one can hear the Kytai of the past.
Kytai has a 47 letter alphabet which most of the modern day western Aggradarian languages have inherited in one form or another. Haphitese uses a much different alphabet that consists of 175 characters of great complexity. All eastern Aggradarian languages descended from Haphitese and exhibit this same complexity and breadth in their alphabets.
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