Editing Setting:Unified Setting/Language (section)

=Common=
Common, also called the Goblin Tongue, is a messy and heavily emphasis-based pidgin composed of many different languages. It has its roots in the language used by the Goblin Empire prior to the Great Fuckup. Even before the goblin Empire fell, it acquired numerous loanwords from the old Elvish language, and the form of Draconian spoken by the Faestir. Almost everyone in the world is conversational in the Common tongue, though only the Goblins and Faestir speak it as a native language. Although it is widely understood, it is seen as classless by the people of the world, and as such, a merchant or diplomat will usually do his best to learn the language of anyone he would be doing business with. A person who can only communicate in the Gobin Tongue is looked down upon by regional powers as being nothing but a foreign hick. To attain any respect, one must speak in the local language. The exceptions to this are the Goblin Isles and Lindwurm, where most everyone speaks the common tongue.

The Faestir speak a version heavily colored by Draconian, and the casual common-speaker may find them difficult to understand if they do not intentionally slow down and speak in a more usual dialect. Unlike the dialects spoken by goblins, the grammar and syntax are constant, and largely irrespective of emphasis.

The Goblin dialects are the more commonly known versions of the language. The Wild Goblins speak the version that is perhaps the most pure. A guttural and often odd-sounding speech, it is the main language in western Lindwurm.

The Ghetto goblins mix the local languages into their speech, but they still speak the Goblin tongue, and they still use the characteristic emphasis patterns.

The Remnant Goblins have a dialect which has taken loanwords from all corners of the world. This dialect, often called Trade Common, is the version used by most travelers and people who use the language out of necessity.

If you use real-world languages in your campaigns to represent fictional languages, the common tongue is best represented by English. We recommend British English for the Faestir, a country or southern dialect for the Wild Goblins perhaps with some Ebonics conventions, "Spanglish" and similar foreign dialects for the Ghetto goblins, and the English of American television hosts and politicians for Trade Common.