Banmek

The Banmek language (Banmijk sagad), also known as the Banster language, is a Jelbic language and the most widely spoken language in Vanuku. Owing to Vanuku's cultural isolation from the Jelbosphere until the Jelbic Renaissance, the language was not influenced by the linguistic reforms of the Jelbic Enlightenment that culminated in the creation of Old High Jelbic. This allowed the local Jelbic vernaculars to develop their own literary standard, with an orthography based on that of Vanukeaans, Vanuku's official language, and with a closer approximation of the grammar and pronunciation of Vanukean Jelbics. In the 36th century the Jelbic culture of Vanuku received government recognition and support, and as a result Vanuku joined the other Jelbic nations in adopting Old High Jelbic as the classical and formal standard, leading in time to the development of Wrnukaek as the Vanukean variety of Old High Jelbic. Banmek has been gradually marginalized ever since, although unlike other Jelbic vernaculars it remains in use as a literary and spoken language in spite of competition from Old High Jelbic.