Society and Culture in the Empire – Languages part I

Many spoken languages exist in the Worlde, many different cultures and races speak their own tongues, and even among the dominant races variant languages have developed as each race spread itself across the lands. The High Elves of the Silvan Courts in the Forest of Solitude speak a different dialect, a different tongue, from the tribes of brown skinned elves that lurk deep within Brooding Jungle. Humans, Dwarves, Elves, Halflings, each race is scattered across the land and each race may have spawned several languages.

Throughout the six kingdoms and beyond, the most commonly spoken language is Argentian. Every civilized person in the Empire (Blessed Be the Emperor) can speak with one another in this common tongue. There are many local dialects and accents, yet even a lonely shepherd living in the Igomar Hills of Southmarch may converse with a Knight of Arrowdale in the Kingdom of Illysia, or a miner in the Redvien Mines of Northumble.

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Dialects of common Argentian

High Court = The language spoken among the noble class and at the Imperial Court.

Slum –Tongue = The dialect of the urban poor, the rogues speech.

Sailors chant = The sing-speech of seafarers throughout Hawkmoor Bay and beyond.

Highland brogue = The dialect of the highland clans in the Igomar Hills and the West.

Farmers chop = The dialect spoken by people in the southern kingdoms and rural folk in much of the Empire.

Merchant’s Cant = The universal language of trade and business. Widespread and constantly spoken, but incredibly complex and rarely mastered.