(Real World Inspiration: presumably Modern English and related languages)
Common: Hybrid language. Often called the "Over-King's Common Tongue." While centuries old, it is still the newest language spoken in Flanaess. Trade tongue of Flanaess.
Middle Common: Parent language to modern Common. Itself an admixture of Old Oeridian and Ancient Baklunish.
Middle Common: Parent language to modern Common. Itself an admixture of Old Oeridian and Ancient Baklunish.
Nyrondese: Dialect with High Oeridian influences. Spoken mostly by insular peasants and trade folk around Nyrond. Believed to be used due to mistrust of non-Nyrondese peoples.
Slangs: Varous cants, argot and jargon -- such as Thieves', Beggar's, and Assassin's cants and the Guild jargons of Greyhawk are based on Common.
SCRIPTS
Common Alphabet: Default alphabet.
Pictographic: Pictographs and Icons correlating to words or phrases in Common. Designed to facilitate, commerce and diplomacy. Not likely to fund many things beyond the practical -- such as poetry, medical treatises or technical treatises -- written in it.
Common Alphabet: Default alphabet.
Pictographic: Pictographs and Icons correlating to words or phrases in Common. Designed to facilitate, commerce and diplomacy. Not likely to fund many things beyond the practical -- such as poetry, medical treatises or technical treatises -- written in it.
--CKW
Rules: Knowing a language from within the same family group can, depending how closely related they are, grant comparative proficiency or rudimentary knowledge of the related languages.
--LM
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