Difference between revisions of "List of Languages"

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There is no "common" trade tongue. People generally speak the tongue of their homeland, while most traders and many in border regions are multi-lingual. Church business is conducted in Ubrekti. The mother tongue is generally called Prime, and is thought to have been primarily an oral language. Some particularly ancient monuments, such as the Black Obelisks, bear a unique and undeciphered script that some believe to believe to be Prime.

Demihuman languages are also presumed to descend from prime, although the mechanics and alphabets of Dwarven, Human and Elven show almost no similarities. The Gnomish alphabet has strong similarities to the Dwarven one, though Gnomes themselves argue that is due to linguistic corruption during the Gnomish Vassalage rather than a sign that some aspect of Gnomish culture is taken from the Dwarves.

The Human language tree, as one might imagine from a short lived and expansive race, is much more diverse. All use one of two alphabets. Since the Human written tradition appears during the Ubrekti Empire, all of the human languages of the civilized mainland use the Ubrekti Alphabet. Written language was only introduced to Ulan in the first century FI, by Mikos Lygit in exile, who taught the Zupan Alphabet, a system of his own creation.

NonHuman

Gnomish

Dwarven

Sidhe

Halfling (Oral only. Lost and Extinct.)

Human

Prime Branch

Fresian

Odessan

Old Ubrekti (Extinct)

Old Petaran (Extinct)

Ubrekti Branch