Greyhawk Shieldlands

The Common Tongue: Spoken by most people in the continent. All adventuring PC's begin with this language. It is a mixture of Ancient Baklunish and Old Oerdian and exists in countless varieties and local dialects across the continent.

Fruz (a.k.a. The Cold Tongue): separate language spoken by the Snow, Ice and Frost Barbarians, descended from Old Suloise.

Flan: an ancient tribal language of the indigenous inhabitants of the continent. Spoken in the Duchy of Tenh and the Rovers of the Barrens, found in many ancient inscriptions.

Suloise: language of the lost Sorcerous empire now called the Sea of Dust. It is known and used only by scholars, wizards and learned men to read and interpret ancient texts and inscriptions.

Old Oeridian: original tongue of the Great Kingdom, now only used in old records, law-books, inscriptions and literature. It is one of the main components of the common tongue.

Ancient Baklunish: language of the rival of the Suel civilization, and the ancestors of the nations of the North West (Ket, Paynims etc). It the other main component of the common tongue, but per se is only used by scholars and learned men and in NW areas as a literary and legal language.

Rhenee minor language, unrelated to any others, spoken by the Rhenne barge people.

Olman language of the southern jungles.

Olve: the ancient language of all the world's elves. All elf and half-elf characters know this language to begin.