Languages

Throughout the world, many creatures both intelligent, sentient and less communicate. The most common languages amongst the intelligent creatures of the world are verbal, with a series of noises giving way to meaning. Many of the intelligent race's languages also have written elements, however languages do exist which break both of these rules.

Derived from the Ancient's slave tongue, most languages share common ancestry. Indeed, a large selection of the most common languages share the same alphabet, numerical system and even words, making it possible for new speakers to learn the language easily, while also been able to interpret what another language might be saying.

Common Languages
Common languages are a catch all term for languages used widely, and across species and often nations.

Imperial Common
Often shortened simply to both "Imperial" and "Common", Imperial is the most widespread language in the lands. Derived from the Vionsan slave dialect, it is the officially endorsed language of the Empire.

During the Empire's expansion, it absorbed many other nations using their own version of the slave dialect. New words were absorbed with the people, leading to Imperial been one of the most diverse languages. Imperial Common was defined by Ezekiel and laid down in the charter "A World the Same" as one of the many standisations later adopted across the Empire.

Easonian
Easonian is another of the languages derived from the slave dialects. Spoken most commonly in Easor, it is the base for the languagers in the Isles.

Racial Languages
The many races often have their own, unique, dialects. From the more primitive creatures who's vocal chords restricts them to a base language to the more fluid and elegant elven, racial languages can be diverse.

Elven
Elven is a rare case for a racial language, in that it is spoken quite frequently outside of it's race. Elven is derived from the Ancient's language itself, and hold only passing resemblance to languages based on the slave dialects. It's widespread useage has lead to several dialects of it's own however, which are simple to understand for speakers of similiar dialects:
 * Desert
 * Ice
 * Ocean
 * Forest

Dwarven
More of the more bizarre languages, Dwarven can be strange to learn and understand to those who have never heard it before. Dwarven generally only uses nouns and verbs, with interpretation and embellishment left to induvidual listeners. The language, however, works perfectly as a labourers language, able to give concise instructions quickly and simply. As a written language, it uses a series of runes which represent induvidual words rather then letters. With this factor considered, Dwarven is a very slow language to evolve, the best most Dwarves are able to do is combine two exsisting words.