Thread:Dark dwarves 2/@comment-26535281-20171104224634

Wiki still won't let me post lore...

The Empire is a literal mess of languages from many trillions of trees, sounds, and species. The Empire employs many languages from those of the homeworld to the languages of the many cults and temples spread across the Empire. This post (sadly) will only be on the 'official' languages of the Empire the one's that are seen in every corner of the Empire.

Their are two main languages in the Empire one being the high official language and then the common tongue used for daily conversations and mass communication. They are as follows:

- Altum Lingua is the 'High Language' of the Empire used for formal ceremonies, the language of court and nobility, official documents, phrases and inscriptions, and on statues and prominent buildings. It is a language spoken fluently only by the upper classes of the Empire or scholars with the other classes expected to know a few words and important phrases.

- Vulgar Lingua is the 'Low Language' or the 'common tongue' spoken across the Empire used as the basic means of communication and as a lingua franca. It is a bastardization of Altum Lingua with words loaned from many other (semi-related) languages and on top of that Empire wide and local slang.

Any language that is not the two above tend to be placed under two categories: 'Chanting' or simply 'Gutter Speak'. 