Language

This unique skill is actually a diverse number of skills, one for each language your character knows. This skill is broken down as follows:

• Apprentice: You understand basic phrases and can speak/read at a tourist level. understand basic phrases in this language, and can speak or read at a tourist level.

• Trained: You have a moderate level of fluency and can comfortably hold longer conversations.

• Advanced: You are fluent in this language and are considered a native speaker of the language.

• Expert: You have an academic level of mastery in this language, and can conduct complex conversations in it.

• Master: You are a master of this language, and can fluently write stories and poems in the language.

• Legendary: You have a historic level of control over the language in question, to the levels of Shakespeare, Moliere, Dante and Cervantes.

SPECIAL: You start the game with Advanced proficiency in your first language, and Trained proficiency in English, if it is not your first language.

Some common languages for Characters to know include the following, broken down by language families are as follows (languages marked with an asterisks are ancient languages more known to scholars than used in everyday conversations). Note that, depending on your background, your character can reasonably know and learn any language spoken by modern humans, these are just suggestions to provide a jumping off point:

Algic: Algonquin, Arapaho, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Cree, Mi'kmaq, Ojibwe, Powhatan, Shawnee

Amazigh: Kabyle, Shilha, Tuareg

Armenian: Armenian

Atlantic-Congo: Fula, Igbo, Yoruba, 

Attic: Ancient Greek*, Greek

Austronesian: Hawaiian, Indonesian, Javanese, Malagasy, Malay, Maori, Tagalog  

Baltic: Latvian, Lithuanian

Bantu:  Kongo, Shona, Sotho, Swahili, Xhosa, Zulu

Cushitic: Afar, Oromo, Somali

Dravidian: Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu

Egyptian: Ancient Egyptian*, Coptic*

Eskimo-Aleut: Aleut, Greenlandic, Inuktitut, Yupik

Finno-Lappic: Estonian, Finnish, Lapp

Germanic: Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, German, Gothic*, Norwegian, Swedish, Yiddish

Indo-Aryan: Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Urdu

Japonic: Okinawan, Japanese

Koreanic: Korean

Kra-Dai: Thai, Lao

Iranian: Avestan*, Farsi, Kurdish,  Old Persian*, Pashto

Mayan: Classic Maya*, Wasteko, Yucatec Maya

Mongolic: Oirat, Mongolian

Mon-Khmer: Khmer, Mon, Vietnamese

Na-Dene: Apache, Chipewyan, Navajo

Nilo-Saharan: Nubian, Luo, Songhay

Quechua: Ayacucho, Classic Inca*, Cuzco

Romance: French, Italian, Latin*, Protuguese, Romanian, Spanish

Semitic: Akkadian*, Amharic, Ancient Hebrew*, Arabic, Aramaic*, Ge'ez*, Hebrew, Syriac

Sintic: Cantonese, Classical Chinese*, Mandarin, Shanghainese

Slavic: Bulgarian, Czech, Old Church Slavonic*, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Ukrainian

Tibeto-Burman: Burmese, Sherpa, Tibetan

Turkic: Azerbaijani, Turkish, Uzbek

Ugric: Finnish, Hungarian

Uto-Aztecan: Hopi, Mayo, Nahuatl