Language

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:

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

• 2 Ranks: You can hold simple conversations in this language.

• 3 Ranks: You have a moderate level of fluency in this language, and can comfortably hold longer conversations in this language.

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

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

• 6 Ranks and above: You are a master of this language, and can fluently write stories and poems in the language. Ranks above 6 demonstrate ever higher levels of mastery over the language in question, to the levels of Shakespeare, Moliere,  Dante and Cervantes.

SPECIAL: You start the game with 4 ranks in your first language, and 3 ranks in English, if it is not your first language.

Common languages for Characters to know include the following:

Algic: Algonkin, 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

Cushtic: 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: Hungarian

Uto-Aztecan: Hopi, Mayo, Nahuatl