Languages

Legend

“Once there was silence, then beings appeared and started to interact, and slowly languages grew.”

Skjald El Mary

 

Description

Languages are structured systems of communication that include grammar and vocabulary. It has become the fundamental means by which races communicate meaning, whether spoken, signed, or written. Languages are distinguished by their historical diversity, with notable differences between cultures and over time. Languages of all sentient races include productivity and displacement features, allowing for the generation of an infinite number of sentences as well as the ability to refer to objects, events, and concepts that are not now present in the discourse. Language use is based on social conventions and is gained through learning.

Skjald Vinotis

 

History

Dark Ages

At first, they were simple utterings of easily recognisable topics. Slowly covering more and more things, a need came for either longer or varied utterings. Thus, some pronouncings became short and varied, others longer but decorated, to distinguish the topic in question amongst the involved parties. Within a few centuries, after the Boriacs returned from the Astral, some topics had evolved to be described by several separate utterings. Within a millennium, they also came to state if things were present or past, and as more and more people participated, spoken languages evolved rapidly.

As passing on information occurred amongst a growing number of Tribes, simple symbols describing things or topics were invented. Evolving parallel to the spoken, writings gained increasingly complex form and structure, slowly becoming what we know now. Thus, languages are a tool of communication and exist in both spoken and written form.

Skjald Sejrik

 

Through time, beings from different areas travelled and bartered. Thus, they came to know several different languages and brought words and writings back to their Void Gardens, Earthnodes, and whatever else they came across. So many languages covered the same areas.

Skjald Yell'a'Beard

 

First Age

Huddling up the most similar things and beings on different areas of the new World resulted in distinguistable utterings and symbols from race to race and even from tribe to tribe. But, as interaction amongst Settlements, or travellers, occurred on a steady basis, some languages are but slight variations of each other. Meanwhile, others became so different that communication as such was impossible.

Skjald Sigurd

 

As to languages, the 1st Cataclysm… and the Second Age brought nothing… while the Third Age … and its appearance Wanderers… brought several new languages… words, and symbols…

Skjald Kazumix

 

Fourth Age

The Vular War and its aftermatch likewise as such brought nothing to languages. The millennia-long evolution of languages continued as it did. So, some languages cover the same areas; thus, there is no way to describe languages covered by The Realm. It did though add to the extincion and death of some of the hundreds if not thousands of languages and dialects.

Extinct languages are those with no living descendants having any first-language or second-language speakers. Dead languages are those with no first-language speakers, but does have second-language speakers or is used fluently in written form. Theres also dormant languages, dead languages that still serves as a symbol of identity to an ethnic group.

Languages typically became extinct due to cultural assimilation, leading to the gradual abandonment of a native language in favor of a foreign one. Or as a resilt of warfare or caraclysmic events like the deep blue tsunami.

At the time of The Great Invasion, there were roughly 6,500 natively spoken languages worldwide. Most of these are minor languages, further in danger of extinction due the impact of the r3alm, and the invasion.

Skjald Ulrich

 

They are by many Scholars classified into various groups such as greater ones, having covered or covering as good as all of the realm, regional ones, having covered or covering various regional areas, and common ones for each Country. Each language is only described generally, despite having a myriad of local dialects.

Skjald Vinotis

 

Organisation

For thousands of years, travellers and traders have been using words and symbols covering the same topic, slowly building a crossover language. In the Age of Hordes, a unified effort to standardise this began, and it was this that became the standard language of the realm, known as Realmish.

Skjald Valgrif

 

Spoken

Languages are structured systems of communication that include grammar and vocabulary. It has become the fundamental means by which races communicate meaning, whether spoken, signed, or written. Languages are distinguished by their historical diversity, with notable differences between cultures and over time. Languages of all sentient races include productivity and displacement features, allowing for the generation of an infinite number of sentences as well as the ability to refer to objects, events, and concepts that are not now present in the discourse. Language use is based on social conventions and is gained through learning.

Written

The first was proto-writing, crude symbols illustrating simple topics, which came to be the second gand of communication between Boriac and races such as Archaic.

Skjald Vinotis

 

Special

One odd thing about languages is that individuals with no shared oral language always seem to be able to communicate using body language, facial expressions, hand gestures, and vocal intonations. It’s almost as if that’s our native shared language.

Skjald Ulrich