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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 2203920" data-attributes="member: 571">Here in San Diego we have this long running ad campaign for the car seller, Hoehn Motors. In the commercials the proprieter Bill Hoehn is in a German Location trying to communicate with the locals using a German/English phrase book, and getting it utterly wrong. The tagline is, "Bill Hoehn may not know how to speak German, but he certainly knows how to sell German."Where RPG worlds are concerned ... The world of Ærth has many languages. Most correspond to Earth languages, but there are some differences, and there are a few missing. For instance, there is no English, because the Angles and the Saxons were defeated by the Celts. Hebrew does not exist either, because the hill tribes that would become the Hebrews in our world were conquered by the Amorites when the Ægyptians withdrew from the area.There are ancient languages; Hiero-Ægyptian for example. Revived Languages; such as Sumerian. Languages known on Earth; French for example. Languages unknown on Earth; Brytho-Kelltic for instance, which is not the same as our Irish, Scottish, or Welsh. Ærth also has dialects, creoles, and border dialects. For instance, in the border region between Francia and the Deutsch states you have Franco-Deutsch. Chinese has a number of dialects, as does Kelltic and Brytho-Kelltic.The closest to a 'common' tongue is the Trade Phoenecian dialect. Essentially a pidgen Phoenecian used in trade. It has a rival (of sorts) in Turkic-Sumerian, which is a created language intended to take the place of Trade Phoenecian by the god Marduk and the Babylonian government. (Marduk has gotten it in his head that he should rule the world.)Some languages and dialects are very closely related. Others are distantly related. For instance, if you speak French your skill with a French dialect is at 90% of your skill with French. On the other hand, if your language is Khazarian you facility with Slavic is only 10% of your facility with Khazarian.One thing to note about Trade Phoenecians is, not everybody speaks it. As a matter of fact, the further you get from Phoenecia's trade routes the less people understand Trade Phoenecian. Someone living in Shamash (our Israel) might speak Trade Phoenecian rather well, but someone living in Siam might now only a few phrases, if any at all.Learning a new language is abstracted and simplified. For instance Iberian (a proto-Basgue/Atlantlan creole) is as easy to learn as French, or Chinese. When Col. Pladoh designed the world he was more interested in adventures than linguistics.That the languages of Ærth for you in part. Hope this gives you ideas.</blockquote>

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