Atlantic languages


 * Not to be confused with the Atlantic language, the most widely-spoken of the Atlantic languages.

The Atlantic languages are a language family of the insular Celtic variety from within the European branch of the wider Indo-European language family. The Atlantic languages are native to and spoken by the people of Atlantica Alba and the Personal Realms, the latter constituting six small island monarchies held in personal union with the much larger Kingdom of Atlantica Alba. From a standardised perspective, there are six attested Atlantic languages: the Atlantic language itself, the most widely-spoken of the Atlantic languages and the language native to Atlantica Alba proper (itself a single island, twice the size of the Personal Realms combined), which constitutes nearly 90% of speakers of Atlantic languages. The other five languages each constitute the respective language of five of the six Personal Realms (the sixth language being Basque, an unrelated language), each of which is mutually unintelligible from each other and the Atlantic language to enough of a degree to be considered languages in their own right.

From a less standardised perspective, Atlantica Alba itself, which is a large island and thus home to many different cultural regions, can be said to consist of several languages, as the various "dialects" of the "Atlantic language" spoken throughout the island in many ways vary enough that some could be more appropriately considered languages when compared to certain others. For example, the standard, upper-middle class dialect of Atlantic spoken in Milo, the capital and largest city, forms the basis for the "standard" Atlantic language (as taught in schools, used in academia, professional and official contexts, and used by media). The further one travels away from Milo, however, the more different and distinct the dialects become, such that a county say just outside the capital will have a local dialect hardly different at all from Milo's, while a county at the northernmost extreme of Atlantica Alba (about as far from the capital as one can get) would use a dialect which for all intents and purposes would more realistically be considered a language in its own right when compared to the language spoken in Milo and the "national standard". Virtually all citizens of Atlantica Alba, however, and even the majority of citizens of the Personal Realms, understand and can more or less fluently speak the "standard" Atlantic language, regardless of how different it is from their own regional language/dialect.

Languages
The six standard Atlantic languages in use today are as follows:


 * 1) Atlantic language
 * 2) Arghyllic language
 * 3) Cedric language
 * 4) Killarne language
 * 5) Killian language
 * 6) Milese language