(01-22-2017, 11:04 AM)Kilieit Wrote: snip
I kinda disagree here. We have plenty of evidence that non-Xaela races of man have had other languages that were commonly used until the common era in Eorzea. But we're also told over and over again that these languages are no longer used commonly. Or that they've become archaic. Or that people no longer speak them. The Roegadyn language is cited in the Warrior information as having been difficult for scholars to translate. Yes, it's largely cultural and they have a collection of words that are generally used in their names, but I don't think it has native speakers anymore. It'd be a dead language. For Elezen, Lalafells and Miqo'te, we again, have evidence that they may have once had their own languages, but the ones living in Eorzea at the very least don't appear to know or speak those languages any longer. The common tongue is the language that people are likely being born and raised with.
But it's also important to note that Hydaelyn (the planet) has no obligation to require that languages diversify over time or distance (or both). For all we know, the common language has been common for more than one Astral/Umbral Era cycle. (We have nothing saying the people of Nym/Ampdapor/Mhach/Allag spoke differently than modern Eorzeans. Although we have nothing confirming it either. ...although given that we do have NPCs people without the Echo can communicate with, I lean more towards the common language being pretty old.)
