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<blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 3696848" data-attributes="member: 9254">Language plays a part in the game as it creates cultural boundaries.&nbsp;&nbsp; I run a DL variant so I have two &quot;common&quot; tongues: Solamnic in Ansalon and Aurim in Taladas.&nbsp;&nbsp; Given the breadth and scope of the old Empires, they remain an oft used neutral language, much as Latin did well throughout the middle ages.&nbsp;&nbsp; These are widely used and will likely be understood on their respective continent by civilized peoples.&nbsp; Barbarians tend to shun such tongues and stick to what they are familiar with.&nbsp; For instance the tribes in northern Taladas speak Tamiran, a very old tongue that according to the Tamiran elves predates the &quot;civilized&quot; elven tongue.&nbsp; Dwarven and Kender (halfling) are permutations of the Gnomish tongue; they use a common alphabet and in writing use a common core vocabulary but have different sentence structures.&nbsp; They have diverged radically in pronunciation formats and are incomprehensible to each other in the spoken word.Excluding the tamiran elves, elves speak elven but with dialect &amp; accent shifts (think England, the U.S. and India for Sylvanosti, Qualinosti, and Kagonesti) that can be understood after a short period of acclimitization.&nbsp; Lots of the monstrous races rely on giant (gray gem mutations of ogre/irda) as their base tongue, again with varying accents.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kigmatzomat, post: 3696848, member: 9254"] Language plays a part in the game as it creates cultural boundaries. I run a DL variant so I have two "common" tongues: Solamnic in Ansalon and Aurim in Taladas. Given the breadth and scope of the old Empires, they remain an oft used neutral language, much as Latin did well throughout the middle ages. These are widely used and will likely be understood on their respective continent by civilized peoples. Barbarians tend to shun such tongues and stick to what they are familiar with. For instance the tribes in northern Taladas speak Tamiran, a very old tongue that according to the Tamiran elves predates the "civilized" elven tongue. Dwarven and Kender (halfling) are permutations of the Gnomish tongue; they use a common alphabet and in writing use a common core vocabulary but have different sentence structures. They have diverged radically in pronunciation formats and are incomprehensible to each other in the spoken word. Excluding the tamiran elves, elves speak elven but with dialect & accent shifts (think England, the U.S. and India for Sylvanosti, Qualinosti, and Kagonesti) that can be understood after a short period of acclimitization. Lots of the monstrous races rely on giant (gray gem mutations of ogre/irda) as their base tongue, again with varying accents. [/QUOTE]

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