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==Languages==

Although the Common Tongue of the temperate lands is the most widely spoken language of the continent, it is by no means a universal speech. A list of languages (and language groups) and where they are spoken appears below.

*'''The Common Tongue:''' Spoken in Albion, Sanga, Sansri, and the southern territories of Sansalam.
*'''Omer:''' Spoken by the Gellemite people in many of the Hundred Principalities, as well as in Sansalam and northern Sansri.
*'''Sand Tongue:''' Spoken in most of the Black Cities and the towns along the Monolith Road, as well as some tribes who dwell in the Plain of Shells.
*'''Old Shaldi:''' Spoken by some Plain of Shells tribes, as well as the nobility of Adaam and some sorcerers in the region. This language is the ancestor of the Sand Tongue, and, in the heyday of the Dark Empire of Shuul, as the conquering nation's common speech. Its writing is hieroglyphic.
*'''Betu:''' This is purported to be the most common language spoken by the people who live east of the Stone Forest.
*'''Panthalassine Languages:''' Languages of this group are spoken among the islands of The Green Ocean. It has hundreds of dialects, most of which are mutually incomprehensible. The people of neighboring islands -- and often neighboring villages of the same island -- are most commonly unable to understand one another's speech.
*'''Qin, Nweño, Cyrric:''' Spoken on the Setting Sun Continent.