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| __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. | __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. |
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| __Fruz__ (a.k.a. The Cold Tongue): separate language spoken by the Snow, Ice and Frost Barbarians, descended from Old Suloise. | __Fruz__ (a.k.a. The Cold Tongue): separate language spoken by the Snow, Ice and Frost Barbarians and the Trollsons, descended from Old Suloise. |
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| __Flan__: an ancient tribal language of the indigenous inhabitants of the continent. Spoken in the Duchy of Tenh, Geoff, and the Rovers of the Barrens, found in many ancient inscriptions. | __Flan__: an ancient tribal language of the indigenous inhabitants of the continent. Spoken in the Duchy of Tenh, Geoff, and the Rovers of the Barrens, found in many ancient inscriptions. |
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| __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 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. |
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| __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. | __Old Oeridian__: original tongue of the the barbarians who fled the ruin of the Suel and Baklunish empires, settled the central portions of the continent and founded the Great Kingdom. It is now only used in old records, law-books, inscriptions and literature. It is one of the main components of the common tongue. |
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| __Baklunish__ this is the modern form of Ancient Baklunish, and is the primary language of Ket, Ekbir, Paynims, Wolf and Tiger Nomads, Tusmit, Ull and Zeif. | __Baklunish__ this is the modern form of Ancient Baklunish, and is the primary language of Ket, Ekbir, Paynims, Wolf and Tiger Nomads, Tusmit, Ull and Zeif. |
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| __Ancient Baklunish__: language of the rival of the Suel civilization. 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. | __Ancient Baklunish__: language of the rival of the Suel civilization. It is 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. |
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| __Rhenee__ minor language, unrelated to any others, spoken by the Rhenne barge people. | __Rhenee__ minor language, unrelated to any others, spoken by the Rhenne barge people. |
| ===Non-Human Languages=== | ===Non-Human Languages=== |
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| __Olve:__ the ancient language of all the world's elves. All elf and half-elf characters know this language to begin. | __Olve:__ the language of all the world's elves. All elf and half-elf characters know this language to begin. |
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| __Dwur__ language of the Dwarves | __Dwur__ language of the Dwarves |
| __Uroz__ language of the Orcs and Ogres | __Uroz__ language of the Orcs and Ogres |
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| __Jebli___ language of the goblins, hobgoblins, bugbears, and hoborgs. | __Jebli__ language of the goblins, kobolds, hobgoblins, bugbears, and hoborgs. |
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| __Moruz__ very basic trade language of Trolls and Giants. | __Moruz__ very basic trade language of Trolls and Giants. |
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| __Hellspeak__ language of the demons and their infernal kin. | __Hellspeak__ language of the demons and their infernal kin. |
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| | __Minor Languages__ The other mortal species, like Catters, Doggers, Ratters, Wornuloids and Blood-Sucking Freaks have their own dialects or languages, which generally are not widely spoken, so might not be available for PC use. |
