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<blockquote data-quote="GrimCo" data-source="post: 9614414" data-attributes="member: 7044462">I like languages as a spice. In our campaign, there is common which would be latin ( old empire that spanned whole continent was very rome like). Now, every kingdom has it's own language, which all stem from latin (like romance languages, same root, but evolved over time with influences from other languages like dwarven, gnomish, halfling). So people from different kingdoms understand each other on the basic level, but higher echelons of society still use latin, priests and wizards have their own dialect ( think ecclesiastic latin vs classical latin). Only racial language still existing in it's pure form is elven, since they are highly isolationist island people that live for centuries ( and consider themselves better than everyone). Fun thing about closely related languages is they are easier to understand in writing than in spoken form. I learned latin and italian in HS and later spanish. I could understand written text better cause they written form is somewhat similar, but they have different pronunciation and accents. On the other hand, dialects can be PIA. In school we learned standard croatian. But, there are couple distinct dialects and when people from different regions speak in dialects, sometimes they have trouble understanding each other, even when they technically speak same language.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GrimCo, post: 9614414, member: 7044462"] I like languages as a spice. In our campaign, there is common which would be latin ( old empire that spanned whole continent was very rome like). Now, every kingdom has it's own language, which all stem from latin (like romance languages, same root, but evolved over time with influences from other languages like dwarven, gnomish, halfling). So people from different kingdoms understand each other on the basic level, but higher echelons of society still use latin, priests and wizards have their own dialect ( think ecclesiastic latin vs classical latin). Only racial language still existing in it's pure form is elven, since they are highly isolationist island people that live for centuries ( and consider themselves better than everyone). Fun thing about closely related languages is they are easier to understand in writing than in spoken form. I learned latin and italian in HS and later spanish. I could understand written text better cause they written form is somewhat similar, but they have different pronunciation and accents. On the other hand, dialects can be PIA. In school we learned standard croatian. But, there are couple distinct dialects and when people from different regions speak in dialects, sometimes they have trouble understanding each other, even when they technically speak same language. [/QUOTE]

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