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Language
A language is a means of communicating by
manipulating symbols. In order for meaningful
communicaton to occur, the meaning of the symbols
must be understood by both the sender and
the reciever of the communication. Each language
consists of a series of symbols known as an alphabet.
The alphabet for each language is appropriate
to the speech capabilities of its race or species. If a
language is learned that belongs to a different species,
then no matter how fluent a character becomes
in it, it will always be obvious to those of the original
species.
As a language develops, rules emerge to guide
those who communicate with it. Various types of
rules emerge, such as grammatical, syntactical, and
stylistic conventions.
Following is a list of languages that characters
may both learn to speak and encounter as they
adventure.
Angelic
This is a language that has progressed
through 3 alphabets. The current alphabet has 22
letters. The alphabet is: Cheth, Zain, Vau, He,
Daleth, Gimel, Beth, Aleph, Samech, Nun, Mem,
Lamed, Caph, Iod, Theth, Tau, Schin, Res, Kuph,
Zade, Pe, and Ain. The characters consist of lines
and small circles. Naturally spoken Angelic occurs
at frequencies higher than human ears are capable
of hearing. Angelic is characterized by infinite irregularities,
perhaps making it the most difficult language,
along with Demonic. For this reason, characters
are unable to learn Angelic.
Legends say that the word joy was given to
ogres in angelic, soon after a demon gave ogres the
first word fatal. Joy was misunderstood and abandoned
from the vocabulary of ogres, and Cigan
developed into a simple, brutal language. Angelic,
however, has existed for eternity. Some scholars
claim that joy is actually the oldest word, but most
find it hard to believe, once familiar with humanoids
of any race.
Buggeric
Buggeric is pronounced boo-GARE-ic. The
tongue of bugbears, this is not a distinct language.
In fact, it is merely a dialect of Kobold. Even though
Buggeric has dropped the clicking sounds of
Kobold, a bugbear and kobold can understand each
other. Just the same, Buggeric grows more disparate
from Kobold every day.
Examples abound of new Buggeric words
that have entered common usage. The kobold word
for sodomy has been abandoned in favor of buggery,
from which the name of the dialect is derived. Seeming
to other races as though male bugbears are obsessed
with sex, they refer to their flaccid manhood
as their little human, roughly translated. Male bugbears
refer to their erect manhood as their poop-poof,
which is often shortened to pupoof, and said quickly.
The variant poop-oops, now quickly pupoops, developed
in response to finding feces on a manhood upon
removal from a rectum.
The distinguishing feature of Buggeric, is
that it contains the most slang. For this reason, many
humans refer to Buggeric as Vulgus, meaning not
only crude and indecent, but of common characters.
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