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<blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 704396" data-attributes="member: 6929">IMC, which is set in medieval Europe, every PC speaks Latin - two as native speakers, the elf for religious reasons, and the mage for educational reasons. Latin is the common tongue of just about everywhere...Except when they went to Africa, and only the mage spoke Arabic, which was the common tongue for even more area than Latin. So yeah, I enforced that language barrier thing. It's easier to do in the real world, though...Elves and dwarves? There are several (many) nations of them. Although I think one player has 'elvish' written on his sheet, some of them speak different languages to others. I think 'elvish' in this case would refer to Hochdeutsch (German), or some root language that hasn't died out yet because of elven lifespans. That really governs from Belgium to Budapest, in my setting. But each area has its own dialect or full language; the Frankish elves have their own branch, distinct from the Swedish elves or the Irish elves.Then again, I'm not certain of Arabic as a common tongue (it seemed handy at the time, is all). Does anyone know whether Arabic is a language as uniform as English, or if there are pronounced dialects?(Linguistics is fun.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="s/LaSH, post: 704396, member: 6929"] IMC, which is set in medieval Europe, every PC speaks Latin - two as native speakers, the elf for religious reasons, and the mage for educational reasons. Latin is the common tongue of just about everywhere... Except when they went to Africa, and only the mage spoke Arabic, which was the common tongue for even more area than Latin. So yeah, I enforced that language barrier thing. It's easier to do in the real world, though... Elves and dwarves? There are several (many) nations of them. Although I think one player has 'elvish' written on his sheet, some of them speak different languages to others. I think 'elvish' in this case would refer to Hochdeutsch (German), or some root language that hasn't died out yet because of elven lifespans. That really governs from Belgium to Budapest, in my setting. But each area has its own dialect or full language; the Frankish elves have their own branch, distinct from the Swedish elves or the Irish elves. Then again, I'm not certain of Arabic as a common tongue (it seemed handy at the time, is all). Does anyone know whether Arabic is a language as uniform as English, or if there are pronounced dialects? (Linguistics is fun.) [/QUOTE]

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