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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 7636067" data-attributes="member: 1125"><p>LIngua francas, koines and creoles exist. Indeed the English language is said by some to be a well established Koine Creole.</p><p></p><p>So I have no problem believing that a whole lot of races forced to live in the same area would soon find a common way of communicating with each other, especially given that long lived races provide a point of language stability and the gods and other powerful beings back their language preferences with authority.</p><p></p><p>As an analogy Consider if Shakespeare was an Elf. The language Shakespeare uses was poetic but generally understood in his era, but takes on complexity to the modern ear. But imagine if Shakespeare was an elf and his elven peers still spoke that way and had done so for the past few hundred years - their language would remain stable and if they backed it up with producing a lot of writing and being active in teaching others their language then I can see a situation wherein humans (who die every 50 years) loose their original species language and eventiually just speak 'Common' Shakespearean.</p><p></p><p>Orcs and goblins are marginalised and so develop their own dialects an languages (and also have a lot of non-verbal communication too)</p><p></p><p>Dwarfs are biologically adapted to subterranean caverns in the mountains, and when they leave those conditions they suffer - excpet that Dwarf stamina means they can endure the discomfort but it still makes them grumpy and too onery to speak that Elf lingo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 7636067, member: 1125"] LIngua francas, koines and creoles exist. Indeed the English language is said by some to be a well established Koine Creole. So I have no problem believing that a whole lot of races forced to live in the same area would soon find a common way of communicating with each other, especially given that long lived races provide a point of language stability and the gods and other powerful beings back their language preferences with authority. As an analogy Consider if Shakespeare was an Elf. The language Shakespeare uses was poetic but generally understood in his era, but takes on complexity to the modern ear. But imagine if Shakespeare was an elf and his elven peers still spoke that way and had done so for the past few hundred years - their language would remain stable and if they backed it up with producing a lot of writing and being active in teaching others their language then I can see a situation wherein humans (who die every 50 years) loose their original species language and eventiually just speak 'Common' Shakespearean. Orcs and goblins are marginalised and so develop their own dialects an languages (and also have a lot of non-verbal communication too) Dwarfs are biologically adapted to subterranean caverns in the mountains, and when they leave those conditions they suffer - excpet that Dwarf stamina means they can endure the discomfort but it still makes them grumpy and too onery to speak that Elf lingo [/QUOTE]
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