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THE LANGUAGES OF ALAGAESIA
THE ANCIENT LANGUAGE
The ancient language used to be spoken by all living things throughout the world. It used to be just what the name implies - simply a language. However, after magic had wreaked havoc in the world, a race known as the Grey Folk performed a powerful and complicated spell that bonded magic and the ancient language together, so that the former could be performed by speaking the right words in the latter without any confusion and chaos.
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THE DWARVEN LANGUAGE
The dwarves had developed their own language and alphabet long before humans landed in Alagaësia. The humans were illiterate, which must have made reading maps difficult and is perhaps why they landed up in Alagaësia - their ships were out for a cruise and ended up sailing into open sea instead of back to their homeland, because the captain couldn't read the navigational charts. However, soon after arriving in Alagaësia and meeting with the dwarves, the humans began using the dwarves' runic alphabet and even adopted some of their words, like "father" from the dwarven word "farthen" (probably to the relief of all the unnamed human male parents).
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THE URGAL LANGUAGE
For a race whose appearance is so thuggish, the Urgals certainly have very flexible tongues to pronounce the strange words that make up their language. Perhaps this is why so little of their language is known - they're afraid to speak it themselves, in case their tongues slip while pronouncing the second syllable of a word with 12 consonants and only two vowels, and what was originally a perfectly harmless "May I borrow a cup of sugar?" becomes "My pet goat urinates in your mother's general direction."
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