I can accept French origin names without Elezen speaking French because of their geological proximity, usage of the same alphabet, and the fact that French and English are both romance languages that are very much related to each other.
It's a bit harder to swallow the same thing for Domans because they are so distant, and because the naming conventions use Kanji, nor does English have a strong connection to Japanese the way French does to English.
Doman names have meanings the same way Japanese names do.
If there were no language behind those meanings the setting ceases to make any sense whatsoever.
Now, we might claim that beyond naming the language is dead, but if the language was totally dead then the currently spoken language would have mutated the names as well. Yet the names are not mutated, they are names lifted straight out of 16th-18th century Japan.
I can see it making sense if the language is in decline due to the Garlean occupation or any number of reasons, but the notion that it's totally dead or never existed in the first place frankly just doesn't make sense.
It's a bit harder to swallow the same thing for Domans because they are so distant, and because the naming conventions use Kanji, nor does English have a strong connection to Japanese the way French does to English.
Doman names have meanings the same way Japanese names do.
If there were no language behind those meanings the setting ceases to make any sense whatsoever.
Now, we might claim that beyond naming the language is dead, but if the language was totally dead then the currently spoken language would have mutated the names as well. Yet the names are not mutated, they are names lifted straight out of 16th-18th century Japan.
I can see it making sense if the language is in decline due to the Garlean occupation or any number of reasons, but the notion that it's totally dead or never existed in the first place frankly just doesn't make sense.
