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branmakmuffin
Senior Scribe
USA
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 Posted - 10 Mar 2003 : 22:16:09
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Is it Chondathan (assuming the general northwest portion of the Realms)? I ask because I don't like the notion of a "common" language (notice how sucessful Esperanto has been in our world) and I'm going to eliminate Common.
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lowtech
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 10 Mar 2003 : 22:45:01
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| Chondathan is the most widespread and probably the most numerous, though I'm not certain of the latter (Mulhorandi has a lot of speakers, for instance). |
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Mumadar Ibn Huzal
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 11 Mar 2003 : 10:48:00
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| A while back there has been a nice article in Dragon Magazine which went into detail on the various languages in the realms, their history and relations. It was written for 2e rules, but could be adapted for 3e... I actually think some of it in a very simplefied form made it into FRCS... |
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branmakmuffin
Senior Scribe
USA
428 Posts |
Posted - 11 Mar 2003 : 17:57:31
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Mumadar Ibn Huzal:
D'you s'pose you remember approximately what issue or the general time frame of the Dragon?
Yes, the 3e campaign book has some rather abbreviated language stuff in it. |
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Mumadar Ibn Huzal
Master of Realmslore
1338 Posts |
Posted - 11 Mar 2003 : 18:30:20
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| <Rattling brains>... Ehm... best guess would be either 2000 or 2001 season. I can't recall the exact issue number. But IIRC it was an article by Thomas A Costa... |
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branmakmuffin
Senior Scribe
USA
428 Posts |
Posted - 11 Mar 2003 : 21:00:13
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Mumadar Ibn Huzal:
Well, the author's name will make tracking it down easier. Thanks. |
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Rekindin
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 23 Mar 2003 : 01:26:27
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| I think that the second most common human language would have to be the Goblin Tongue...... |
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
USA
4740 Posts |
Posted - 23 Mar 2003 : 19:52:05
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| No no no. He's asking about regional languages. Like English, French, Spanish, etc. in our world. He doesn't think that it's realistic to have every one speak the same language. |
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branmakmuffin
Senior Scribe
USA
428 Posts |
Posted - 23 Mar 2003 : 20:50:25
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Bookwyrm:
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No no no. He's asking about regional languages. Like English, French, Spanish, etc. in our world. He doesn't think that it's realistic to have every one speak the same language.
I would really love to see an article about the linguistic dispersion of Faerun. I imagine Netherese gave rise to a bunch of modern FR languages, for example. I have yet to be able to track down the Dragon article referred to earlier. |
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
USA
4740 Posts |
Posted - 24 Mar 2003 : 07:37:02
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Originally posted by branmakmuffin
I imagine Netherese gave rise to a bunch of modern FR languages, for example.
Yes, like Latin gave rise to the Romance (Roman) branch of languages. |
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Mumadar Ibn Huzal
Master of Realmslore
1338 Posts |
Posted - 24 Mar 2003 : 15:10:15
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Close, very close... it is actually the language from Condath that spawned most of the languages in Faerun. Netherese, Imaskar, Alzhedo and the Northman (Ruathym) language are some of the 'old' languages which have survived to some degree into the modern languages.
I'm not sure if there is a search engine on the Dragon Mag website, otherwise if one of the scribes is subscribed to the FR-list, maybe someone there knows the exact issue #. |
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branmakmuffin
Senior Scribe
USA
428 Posts |
Posted - 24 Mar 2003 : 18:31:39
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Mumadar Ibn Huzal:
Is "Dragon" where you got this info? If not, where did you find it? I must have it, I tell you, I must have it! |
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
USA
4740 Posts |
Posted - 24 Mar 2003 : 20:29:46
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| He just said he got it from Dragon, didn't he? |
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branmakmuffin
Senior Scribe
USA
428 Posts |
Posted - 24 Mar 2003 : 21:33:55
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Bookwyrm:
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He just said he got it from Dragon, didn't he?
Not exactly. He *reiterated* that it was where he got at least some of the information. Would you have been happier if I had asked "Is Dragon the *only* place you got this info?"
Obviously I know about an article by Thomas A. Costa in some issue of Dragon, since Mumadar mentioned it in an earlier post. Since he went to the bother of mentioning it again, it is not beyond the realm of plausibility that Mumadar was ready to add further possible sources. So, wishing to ascertain the likelihood of such serendipitous happenstance, I posed my request a subsequent time.
Comprendes? |
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Mumadar Ibn Huzal
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 25 Mar 2003 : 10:04:44
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Si senor, and unfortunately the only reference I know of containg this data is the article I referred to in the first place.
<silently fuming that his collection of Dragon mags is still in the US>
If no-one else has the information before end of May, I might be able to provide you with the exact issue number.
<looking at Bookwyrm, head cocked a little, quizzical expression on face>
Maybe a little less caffeine or orange juice... I'll have a chat with Winthrop. |
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branmakmuffin
Senior Scribe
USA
428 Posts |
Posted - 25 Mar 2003 : 21:20:20
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Mumadar Ibn Huzal:
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<silently fuming that his collection of Dragon mags is still in the US
If no-one else has the information before end of May, I might be
able to provide you with the exact issue number.
If you do, thak you. If you can't or don't, again, thanks for your efforts. |
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The Defence Minister
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
218 Posts |
Posted - 31 Mar 2003 : 17:46:12
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In my games, I only ever use English or Latin as I really cannot be bothered to learn any FR languages.
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Sarta
Senior Scribe
USA
505 Posts |
Posted - 01 Apr 2003 : 03:10:31
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One merely needs to refer to the language section of FRCS to see that Chondathan seems to be the most wide-spread language. With that said, there are still pleny of places on the map that do not use it, so it may not be the most suitable language for everyone's campaign.
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Most common human lang. (other than Common)
