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Message: <blockquote data-quote="morbiczer" data-source="post: 1354064" data-attributes="member: 15119">Re: LanguagesI'll try to give some advice for the languages. There were many more languages in medieval Europe than today. In France for example, people in the south spoke provancal (or occitan, I think this is the same kanguages), In Brittany breton and so on. People from different parts of the country would have had difficulty understanding each other. Same for Germany, someone from Bavaria would have had big difficulties understanding someone from the northern coast (well, maybe that hasn't changed even today <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. In the Middle Ages there was for example no Spanish, well, there wasn't even Spain. People in Castily (sp?) spoke Castilian, in Aragon Catalonian and so on. People in Catalonia still don't speak Spanish (which is actually Castilian), but there own language (Catalonian), which surely resembles Spanish, but is a different languag of his own. In Italy people from the south had serious problems understanding people from the north even in the second half of the 19th centurySince there was no radio or TV, no real print media, the large majority of people didn't travel, etc. local differences in languages could live on fo a very long time. For your project I'd suggest to look into some Ars Magica product. There you surely will find a short list of languages in medieval Europe. If this isn't an option for you, simply take today's languages, the diferences aren't THAT great. Sorry. To lazy to check for spelling. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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