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Racial languages

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#1
akaddk
Sep 17, 2011 8:18:05 I want to run an FR game and make the FR languages more prominant and useful. But it feels as if they're entirely redundant in 4e, superceded by the no-frills brand of racial languages. Now, I could simply say that there are ONLY the FR languages in the game, but then... what do elves speak?

So I was wondering if someone could point me either to a reference online or even within an older sourcebook (I have several of them but can't remember anything about them and searching through them all would take forever) where I could nail down exactly what languages all the races speak on Toril so that I can bring a little bit of flavour back to the setting, that'd be super.
#2
cronje
Sep 18, 2011 12:34:43 Though its by no means a complete list, you should check out the languages category on the Forgotten Realms Wiki.
forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Category:...
#3
crzyhawk
Sep 19, 2011 15:49:09 IIRC, elves spoke elvish. In the older editions, eladrin were also elves. I tend to think of 4e eladrin as high elves, being that they are the sun and moon elves. I don't believe any of the elven subraces had their own languages other then the drow.

I think the same kinda of paradigm exists for other races. Gold and Shield dwarves all speak dwarven, humans all speak common, etc. I don't recall if halflings had their own tongue, I don't think they did. I don't really recall FR having special languages.
#4
Mirtek
Sep 20, 2011 14:36:21
IIRC, elves spoke elvish. In the older editions, eladrin were also elves. I tend to think of 4e eladrin as high elves, being that they are the sun and moon elves. I don't believe any of the elven subraces had their own languages other then the drow.

I think the same kinda of paradigm exists for other races. Gold and Shield dwarves all speak dwarven, humans all speak common, etc. I don't recall if halflings had their own tongue, I don't think they did. I don't really recall FR having special languages.

IIRC the demihumans did indeed just speak their universal demihuman languages, however the humans spoke a lot of different languages

#5
therion666
Sep 29, 2011 12:06:09
I don't really recall FR having special languages.

Human's had a huge variety of regional languages.

I read in the 4E FR book that the common tongue is a variation of Chondathan. Chondathan is spoken through the heartlands of the world that is a region from Waterdeep all the way through to Sembia and the lands just north and south of that line.

Other languages are Damaran, Netherese(this is an ancient language just recently come back in force with the Netherese).

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 akaddk Sep 17, 2011 8:18:05	I want to run an FR game and make the FR languages more prominant and useful. But it feels as if they're entirely redundant in 4e, superceded by the no-frills brand of racial languages. Now, I could simply say that there are ONLY the FR languages in the game, but then... what do elves speak? So I was wondering if someone could point me either to a reference online or even within an older sourcebook (I have several of them but can't remember anything about them and searching through them all would take forever) where I could nail down exactly what languages all the races speak on Toril so that I can bring a little bit of flavour back to the setting, that'd be super.
#2 cronje Sep 18, 2011 12:34:43	Though its by no means a complete list, you should check out the languages category on the Forgotten Realms Wiki. forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Category:...
#3 crzyhawk Sep 19, 2011 15:49:09	IIRC, elves spoke elvish. In the older editions, eladrin were also elves. I tend to think of 4e eladrin as high elves, being that they are the sun and moon elves. I don't believe any of the elven subraces had their own languages other then the drow. I think the same kinda of paradigm exists for other races. Gold and Shield dwarves all speak dwarven, humans all speak common, etc. I don't recall if halflings had their own tongue, I don't think they did. I don't really recall FR having special languages.
#4 Mirtek Sep 20, 2011 14:36:21	IIRC, elves spoke elvish. In the older editions, eladrin were also elves. I tend to think of 4e eladrin as high elves, being that they are the sun and moon elves. I don't believe any of the elven subraces had their own languages other then the drow. I think the same kinda of paradigm exists for other races. Gold and Shield dwarves all speak dwarven, humans all speak common, etc. I don't recall if halflings had their own tongue, I don't think they did. I don't really recall FR having special languages. IIRC the demihumans did indeed just speak their universal demihuman languages, however the humans spoke a lot of different languages
#5 therion666 Sep 29, 2011 12:06:09	I don't really recall FR having special languages. Human's had a huge variety of regional languages. I read in the 4E FR book that the common tongue is a variation of Chondathan. Chondathan is spoken through the heartlands of the world that is a region from Waterdeep all the way through to Sembia and the lands just north and south of that line. Other languages are Damaran, Netherese(this is an ancient language just recently come back in force with the Netherese).