<strong>On Languages</strong><br/><br/>Each character starts off being able to speak their native language. Every point put into the Lingustics skill lets you add another language.<br/><br/>Rather than trying to mirror the nuanced and complicated range of languages available in Europe in the 1100s, the following languages are grouped:<br/><br/>-<strong>French-Italian-Spanish</strong>(FISH)<br/>-<strong>German-Dutch-English</strong>: Spoken by the increasing numbers of settlers and merchants from the Holy Roman Empire, this is becoming the language of commerce and trade - at least at the wealthier end.<br/>-<strong>Slavonic</strong>: A collection of dialects, this group is well on its way to becoming the vernacular of Eastern Europe. Places you would expect to hear this are Poland, Bohemia, Keivan Rus, Bulgaria, Macedonia<br/>-<strong>Hungarian</strong>: The native tongue of the Magyar people, spoken in Hungary. In a city like Buda-Pest, this is the working-class language.<br/>-<strong>Romanian-Vlach</strong>(Romanian): This will one day become modern Romanian - it now exists somewhere between Latin and FISH, but is only haltingly comprehenisble (similar in the sense that real German - Dutch - English are similar).<br/>-<strong>Baltic</strong>: Like Slavonic, an umbrella term for a number of languages spoken in what will one day be Lithuania-Latvia-Estonia, and parts of Poland.<br/>-<strong>Latin-Greek </strong>(Classical): For the purpose of this game, classical Greek and Latin are roled into one. Ancient Romans, and modern-day Byzantines would speak this.<br/>-<strong>Kurdish-Armenian-Persian-Egyptian-Arabic</strong>(Arabic)<br/>-<strong>Hebrew-Aramaic </strong>(Semitic)<br/>