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Caspar · **01-12-2017, 12:41 AM**

(01-11-2017, 10:38 PM)Kilieit Wrote: Some people take this to mean that Doman is a dialect variation on Eorzean, but that's not canon stated fact. My belief based on all the evidence (including stuff from the geography section) is that "Doman" is an ancient language all of its own (with its own rules and writing script), but most Domans also know a "trade language" that is aforementioned dialect of Eorzean.

Communication between Othard (the continent Doma is on) and the rest of the world started about 20 years ago, thanks to the advent of airship travel (for 2000+ years before then, there was a huge mountain range in the way). So that's when people would've started learning this language; it's likely your character would've too. If he's young enough, he might even have grown up speaking it in addition to Doman.

I agree with this interpretation on a basis of common sense, but for reference's sake do you think you could explain a bit of the reasoning here? It may be useful for myself or other RPers since this is a really inconsistent area of the lore, and translation convention is really dodgy in a multilingual game.

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