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RE: Help with Languages - V'aleera - 11-23-2015
One thing to note: before the attack on Castrum Meridianum, Minfilia makes a speech to the Alliance troops about how they've all come together regardless of race and language, which pretty much confirms the existence of varied languages in Eorzea.
RE: Help with Languages - Smagon - 11-24-2015
Makes me wonder how many races have their own language and how often those languages are used in daily life. Would the Ishgardians say and do everything in (not)French when not dealing with outsiders?
On a semi related topic, would the average Xaela even know how to speak common? I have seen everything from eloquent to caveman-like with Xaela speech and wondered which would be the more "correct" interpretation.
RE: Help with Languages - Mia Moui - 11-27-2015
I'm feel confident in believing that Eorzea is much, much larger than the game map implies. Â There's room for all kinds of languages and accents even if the vast majority of people on the game map speak the same language. Â Even where I live one can expect, English, Spanish, German, Italian, Indo-Aryan, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, and those are just the ones I hear usually hear week to week.
I'm sure that many Miqo'te, especially Keepers, might still retain some of their ancestral languages. Â Mia can speak some of that language but that's no guarantee that any other Keeper would understanding it. Â I doubt that all Miqo'te had the exact same language before coming to Eorzea. Â If anything, it would be like the Romantic languages where there's a number of similarities deriving from the same source but French and Spanish are now very different languages. Â Spanish and Portuguese are very similar but still different enough to limit understanding.
Presumably, Eorzean is the equivalent of English which has long absorbed and modified all kinds of other languages. Â So basically, one can't really go wrong with language and accents as the world is plenty big enough for almost any interpretation.