Thread:Dark dwarves 2/@comment-26184570-20160924193150

I have some ideas involving the linguistics of Xin.

The official language is Mandarin Chinese, and there are many other dialects and languages within the Xinese Empire. It is considered lucky to have "High Xinese" (Mandarin) as your first culture and language. Then, the Xinese Avari speak -(drumroll please)-

Manchu! It makes so much sense! Firstly, the Manchu have been the ruling class of China many times in real life, and second, Manchu is a Tungusic language, which fits with the Elvish theme of Siberian origin (the Elvish languages are based off of many things, but mostly Finnish, which is part of the Uralic language family, which is not to our knowledge related to the Tungusic languages, but it goes with the Siberian theme). What do you think? 