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<blockquote data-quote="CrazyMage" data-source="post: 91903" data-attributes="member: 565">I don't usually pair up a real world language with a specific race so much as a particular culture and region.&nbsp; Using a known language can be a good way to maintain a consistent feel for a group of people, though my personal preference is to tweak everything so that it isn't too familiar (there are a few words in Lord of the Rings that form their plurals by adding &quot;-im&quot;&nbsp; That's a Hebrew plural ending--too familiar and so not &quot;foreign&quot; enough for me).&nbsp; Finnish is a good suggestion, likewise Estonian or Hungarian for a different feel to things.&nbsp; In my campaign world there are lakes named after Albanian for &quot;good morning&quot; and &quot;good evening&quot;.&nbsp; I have the Central Asia phrasebook from Lonely Planet (Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Uyghur, Pashto, Kazakh, etc.) which I found to be very inspirational for sorcerer/wizard names.Keep exploring languages (and not just for D&amp;D names).&nbsp; There's a lot of cool stuff out there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CrazyMage, post: 91903, member: 565"] I don't usually pair up a real world language with a specific race so much as a particular culture and region. Using a known language can be a good way to maintain a consistent feel for a group of people, though my personal preference is to tweak everything so that it isn't too familiar (there are a few words in Lord of the Rings that form their plurals by adding "-im" That's a Hebrew plural ending--too familiar and so not "foreign" enough for me). Finnish is a good suggestion, likewise Estonian or Hungarian for a different feel to things. In my campaign world there are lakes named after Albanian for "good morning" and "good evening". I have the Central Asia phrasebook from Lonely Planet (Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Uyghur, Pashto, Kazakh, etc.) which I found to be very inspirational for sorcerer/wizard names. Keep exploring languages (and not just for D&D names). There's a lot of cool stuff out there. [/QUOTE]

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