(03-27-2014, 08:48 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: My impression is that Eorzean is the common tongue, with the "racial languages" having died off quite a while ago with the possible exception of the beast tribes and rare "lost" villages and societies (i.e., player-created) with no outside contact. Centuries if not millennia of living in close proximity and actively trading and warring would have turned distinct languages into pidgins and eventually into a new language (a creole). As the creole grew increasingly popular, it just became "the language." Because this happened quite a while ago, it's possible that Garlemald experienced the same process pre-Empire (the Empire being pretty recent in that continent's history). Certainly, I would expect all Garleans are forced to speak the same language enforced by Imperial decree.
