Languages: modern
Most settings lack in language descriptions: masters don't want to be bothered, and some settings propose atrocious approximations such as people speaking "common". DwarvenWorld, in its commitment to offering detailed knowledge of everything useful, has instead this page for you. In assigning levels, we assume 3 corresponds to a basic knowledge, 5 to fluent (normal for a native speakers), whereas levels higher than 6 (literary) correspond to academics, orators or poets.
Proensal: The common tongue spoken and written, with minor variations, in the Four Realms and (in a rather warped way) in the Gueresquelot area. Often used abroad by troubadours, musicians and entertainers of some skill. Maximum level: 10.
Haramaic: Basically a dialect of Proensal, but with heavy Zamoran influences, spoken and seldom written by natives of the Haram Plains. Maximum level: 6.
Neogorhadian: Mostly oral language spoken by the commoners of the Empire, also used as a common language by merchants, mercenaries, travellers and the such. Maximum level: 6.
Zeugmian: Dialect of Neogorhadian, with heavy Gumrach, Northaic and Dargav influences, so to sound completely obscure to whoever is not used to it. Not written. Maximum level: 4 (even in Zeugma, proper speakers use other languages).
Elder Gorhadian: A language that has passed almost unaltered through all the history of the Empire, it is used there by aristocrats and scholars, and for official documents and literature. Also used internationally when scholars or diplomats of different countries meet. Maximum level: 10.
Zenderian: Language of Zender and its dominions beyond the sea. Maximum level: 10.
Dargav: Oral language used by those few Dargav tribes that hold to their traditional nomadic habits, now extremely rare. Maximum level: 5.
Northaic: A patchwork of sundry dialects spoken and written in the Northern Realms. Maximum level: 10.
Languages: ancient
These languages are no longer spoken; some scholars do, however, still study them.
Gumrach: Non-human tongue, forlorn even by the few scattered Gumrach left, but of which some full (and terribly dusty) libraries still exist.
Stygian: Once spoken by the natives of Stygia, it now survives there only in deformed and scattered dialects, but has been extensively used on this side of the Sea in alchemy, astrology and arcane books.
Runic Northaic: An older form of Northaic, from which it differs mostly for a different set of characters. Can be learnt as if it were a dialect of Northaic.
This list covers only the languages used in the area of the map.
roensal and Neogorhadian are of the same group, deriving from Ancient Imperial, so they have many similarities; masters should keep these things in mind when deciding how easily a character can learn languages.