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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8441845" data-attributes="member: 58172">I feel languages are strictly the jurisdiction of a setting.Some settings might only have a handful of languages (like Forgotten Realms), some settings might have thousands. (Today, reallife humanity is understood to have roughly 7000 languages.)It is the setting that decides.For Forgotten Realms, it seems plausible to me that the &quot;human language&quot; (Common) could become an inter-lineage language of commerce and inquiry. Creating a new artificial language for commerce seems less plausible.I like the idea of levels of understanding: broken, fluent, and expert/native. It is possible to read a language as an expert but only speak it brokenly. And viceversa. The different levels of understanding could have DCs (10, 15, 20) for the History skill to attempt to decipher an unknown language.In a setting where there are many languages, a family of closely related languages might be able to brokenly understand each other.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 8441845, member: 58172"] I feel languages are strictly the jurisdiction of a setting. Some settings might only have a handful of languages (like Forgotten Realms), some settings might have thousands. (Today, reallife humanity is understood to have roughly 7000 languages.) It is the setting that decides. For Forgotten Realms, it seems plausible to me that the "human language" (Common) could become an inter-lineage language of commerce and inquiry. Creating a new artificial language for commerce seems less plausible. I like the idea of levels of understanding: broken, fluent, and expert/native. It is possible to read a language as an expert but only speak it brokenly. And viceversa. The different levels of understanding could have DCs (10, 15, 20) for the History skill to attempt to decipher an unknown language. In a setting where there are many languages, a family of closely related languages might be able to brokenly understand each other. [/QUOTE]

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