Language List

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Standard	Speakers	Script	notes
Common	Humans, Halflings	Common	A mix of Elvish, Gnomish, and Dwarvish
Undercommon	Underworld traders	Sylvan	Written in French, Spoken in Spanish
Dwarvish	Dwarves	Primordial	Straight up 6th century Gaelic...
Elvish	Elves	Sylvan	Written in Spanish, Spoken in French
Giant	Ogres, Giants, Goblins	Primordial	Old English
Gnomish	Gnomes	Primordial	3rd century Welsh

Exotic	Speakers	Script	Notes
Undead	Undead, Death	Draconic	21st century Russian
Celestial	Celestials	Celestial	I don't know, what does God sound like?
Draconic	Dragons, Dragonborn	Draconic	Very guttural
Deep Speech	Aboleths, cloakers	-	Mix squid sounds with Mongolian throat singing and philosophy
Infernal	Devils, Demons	Infernal	3 voices overlapped, 1 higher pitched and 1 lower. Higher = Undercommon, Lower = Elvish, Middle = Gnomish.
Primordial	Elementals	Primordial	Goidelic
Sylvan	Fey creatures	Sylvan	Latin
Orquillan	Orqs	Orquillan	Nahuatl (used in tenochtitlan)