Languages

[dragon_blaze_99]

is there a list of all the Languages of the Megaverse®, use phase world, rifts, HU and AU the hole ball of wax. just thought I would ask...

Dragon_blaze

[Braden Campbell]

No... but I'll get the ball rolling.

Rifts major languages
* American (English)
* Spanish
* Euro
* Chinese
* Japanese
* Techno-Can
* Dragonese/Elven
* Gobbley
* Faerie Speak

Rifts secondary langues
* German
* Quebecois French
* Creole
* Russian
* Mongolian
* Atlantean/Classical Greek

Wormwood languages
* Wormwoodian English (olde Anglish?)
* Demongogian

Phase World languages
* Trade One (the language of the Elder Races?)
* Trade Two (the psychic language)
* Trade Three (Wulfen)
* Trade Four (aka Terran (English))
* Trade Five (Kreeghor)
* Trade Six (the new one that none of my Players ever take)

[BillionSix]

Don't forget the list of languages in worlds of Heroes Unlimited, Nightbane, Beyond the Supernatural, and Ninjas & Superspies.

Abanyom (Bantu)
Abaza (Northwest Caucasian)
Abkhaz or Abkhazian (Northwest Caucasian)
Abujmaria (Dravidian)
Acehnese (Malayo-Polynesian)
Adamorobe Sign Language (Signing)
Adele (Kwa)
Adyghe (Northwest Caucasian)
Afar (Cushitic)
Afrikaans (Germanic)
Afro-Seminole Creole (English-based creole)
Aimaq or Barbari (Iranian)
Aini (Turkic)
Ainu (language isolate)
Akan (Kwa)
Akawaio (Carib)
Akkadian (Semitic) (extinct)
Aklanon (Malayo-Polynesian)
Albanian (Indo-European)
Aleut (Eskimo-Aleut)
Algonquin (Algonquian)
Alemán Coloneiro (Germanic)
Alsatian (Germanic)
Altay (Turkic)
Alutor (Chukotko-Kamchatkan)
American Sign Language (Signing)
Amharic (Semitic)
Amorite (Semitic) (extinct)
Anglo-Saxon or Old English (Germanic)
Amdang (Nilo-Saharan)
Ammonite (Semitic) (extinct)
Andalusian (Romance)
Angaur (Malayo-Polynesian)
Angika (Indo-Aryan)
Ao (Tibeto-Burman)
A-Pucikwar (Andamanese)
Arabic (Semitic)
Aragonese (Romance)
Aramaic (Semitic)
Are (Malayo-Polynesian)
Argobba (Semitic)
Aromanian or Macedo-Romanian (Romance)
Armenian (Indo-European)
Arvanitic(Indo-European)
Ashkenazi Hebrew (Semitic)
Ashkun (Indo-Iranian)
Assamese (Indo-Iranian)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (Semitic)
Ateso or Teso (Nilotic)
Asi (Malayo-Polynesian)
Asturian (Romance)
Ati
Auslan (Signing)
Avar (Northeast Caucasian)
Avestan (Indo-Iranian)
Awadhi (Indo-Iranian)
Aymara (Aymaran)
Azerbaijani (Turkic)
Badaga (Dravidian)
Badeshi (Indo-Iranian)
Bahnar (Austroasiatic)
Bajelani (Indo-Iranian)
Balinese (Malayo-Polynesian)
Balochi (Indo-Iranian)
Balti (Tibeto-Burman)
Bambara or Bamanankan (Mande)
Banjar (Malayo-Polynesian)
Banyumasan (Malayo-Polynesian)
Basaa (Bantu)
Bashkir (Turkic)
Basque (Isolated)
Batak Dairi (Malayo-Polynesian)
Batak Karo (Malayo-Polynesian)
Batak Mandailing (Malayo-Polynesian)
Batak Simalungun (Malayo-Polynesian)
Batak Toba (Malayo-Polynesian)
Bats (North Caucasian)
Bavarian (Germanic)
Beja (Cushitic)
Belarusian (Slavic)
Belhare (Tibeto-Burman)
Bellari (Dravidian)
Berta (Nilo-Saharan)
Bemba (Bantu)
Bengali (Indo-Aryan)
Bengali Sign language (Sign languages)
Bezhta (Northeast Caucasian)
Beothuk (unclassified) (extinct)
Berber (Afro-Asiatic)
Bete (Niger-Congo)
Bété (Niger-Congo)
Bhili (Indo-Aryan)
Bhojpuri (Indo-Aryan)
Bijil Neo-Aramaic (Semitic)
Bikol (Malayo-Polynesian)
Bikya or Furu (Bantu)
Bissa (Mande)
Blackfoot (Algonquian)
Boholano (Malayo-Polynesian)
Bohtan Neo-Aramaic (Semitic)
Bolgar (unclassified) (extinct)
Bonan or Paoan (Mongolic)
Bororo (Bororoan)
Bosnian (Slavic)
Brahui (Dravidian)
Breton (Celtic)
British Sign Language (Signing)
Bua (Niger-Congo)
Buginese (Malayo-Polynesian)
Bukusu (Bantu)
Bulgarian (Slavic)
Bunjevac (Slavic)
Burmese (Tibeto-Burman)
Burushaski (language isolate)
Buryat (Mongolic)
Caluyanon or Caluyanun (Malayo-Polynesian)
Camunic (unclassified) (extinct)
Cantonese (Sinitic)
Carian (Anatolian) (extinct)
Catawba (Siouan) (extinct)
Catalan (Romance)
Cayuga (Iroquoian)
Cebuano (Malayo-Polynesian)
Chabacano or Chavacano (Creole)
Chaga or Kichagga (Bantu)
Chagatai (Turkic) (extinct)
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic (Semitic)
Chamorro (Malayo-Polynesian)
Chaouia or Tachawit (Berber)
Chechen (Northeast Caucasian)
Chemakum (Chimakuan) (extinct)
Chenchu (Dravidian)
Chenoua (Berber)
Cherokee (Iroquoian
Cheyenne (Algonquian)
Chhattisgarhi (Indo-Aryan)
Chintang or Chhintang (Tibeto-Burman)
Chilcotin (Athabaskan)
Chinese (Sinitic)
Chiricahua or Mescalero-Chiricahua Apache (Athabaskan)
Chichewa or Nyanja (Bantu)
Chipewyan (Athabaskan)
Chittagonian (Indo-Aryan)
Choctaw (Muskogean)
Chorasmian or Khwarezmian (Iranian)
Chukchi or Chukot (Chukotko-Kamchatkan)
Chulym (Turkic)
Church Slavonic (Slavic)
Chuukese or Trukese (Malayo-Polynesian)
Chuvash (Turkic)
Cocoma or Cocama (Tupian)
Cocopa (Hokan)
Coeur d’Alene (Salishan)
Comorian (Bantu)
Coptic (Egyptian) (extinct, liturgical language)
Cornish (Celtic)
Corsican (Romance)
Cree (Algonquian)
Crimean Tatar or Crimean Turkish (Turkic)
Croatian (Slavic)
Cuman (Turkic) (extinct)
Cumbric (Celtic) (extinct)
Curonian (Baltic) (extinct)
Cuyonon (Malayo-Polynesian)
Czech (Slavic)
Dacian (Indo-European) (extinct)
Dahlik (Semitic)
Dalecarlian (Germanic)
Dalmatian (Romance) (extinct)
Dameli (Indo-Aryan)
Danish (Germanic)
Dargin (Northeast Caucasian)
Dari (Zoroastrian) (Iranian)
Dari-Persian (Iranian)
Darkhat (Mongolic)
Daur or Dagur (Mongolic)
Dena'ina or Tanaina (Athapaskan)
Dhatki (Indo-Aryan)
Dhivehi or Maldivian (Indo-Aryan)
Dida (Volta-Congo)
Dioula or Jula (Mande)
Dogri (Indo-Aryan)
Dogrib or Tli Cho (Athapaskan)
Dolgan (Turkic)
Domaaki or Dumaki (Indo-Aryan)
Dongxiang or Santa (Mongolic)
Duala (Bantu)
Dungan (Sinitic)
Dutch (Germanic)
Dzhidi or Judeo-Persian (Iranian)
Dzongkha (Tibeto-Burman)
Eastern Yugur (Mongolic)
Eblaite (Semitic) (extinct)
Edomite (Semitic) (extinct)
Egyptian (Afro-Asiatic) (extinct)
Egyptian Arabic (Semitic)
Ekoti (Bantu)
Elamite (isolated) (extinct)
Endegen (Semitic)
Enets or Yenisey Samoyed (Samoyedic)
English (Germanic)
Ennemor or Inor (Semitic)
Erzya (Finno-Ugric)
Esperanto (planned language)
Estonian (Finno-Ugric)
Etruscan (Tyrsenian) (extinct)
Even (Altaic)
Evenk or Evenki (Altaic)
Ewe (Volta-Congo)
Eyak (Na-Dené)
Faeroese (Germanic)
Fang (Bantu)
Fars (Iranian)
Fijian (Malayo-Polynesian)
Filipino (Malayo-Polynesian)
Finnish (Finno-Ugric)
Finnish Sign Language (Signing)
Fon (Volta-Congo)
Franco-Provençal or Arpitan (Romance)
French (Romance)
French Sign Language (Signing)
Frisian (Germanic)
Friulian (Romance)
Fula or Fulfulde or Fulani (Atlantic)
Fur (Nilo-Saharan)
Ga (Volta-Congo)
Gadaba (Dravidian)
Gafat (Semitic) (extinct)
Gagauz (Turkic)
Galician (Romance)
Gangte (Tibeto-Burman)
Garhwali (Indo-Aryan)
Gaulish (Celtic) (extinct)
Gayo (Malayo-Polynesian)
Gazi (Iranian)
Ge'ez (Semitic) (extinct)
Gen or Gẽ or Mina (Volta-Congo)
Georgian (South Caucasian)
German (Germanic)
German Sign Language (Signing)
Ghomara (Berber) (extinct)
Gikuyu or Kikuyu (Bantu)
Gilbertese or Kiribati (Malayo-Polynesian)
Gileki (Iranian)
Goaria (Indo-Aryan)
Gondi (Dravidian)
Gothic (Germanic) (extinct)
Gawar-Bati or Gowari or Narsati (Indo-Aryan)
Grangali or Gelangali (Indo-Aryan)
Greek (Indo-European)
Guanche (Berber) (extinct)
Guaraní (Tupian)
Gujarati (Indo-Aryan)
Gula Iro or Kulaal (Volta-Congo)
Gullah or Sea Island Creole English (English-based creole)
Gusii (Bantu)
Gwichʼin (Athabaskan)
Hadramautic (Semitic) (extinct)
Hadza or Hatsa (Khoisan)
Haida or Masset (Na-Dené)
Haitian Creole (French-based creole)
Hakka (Sinitic)
Hän (Athabaskan)
Harari (Semitic)
Harauti (Indo-Aryan)
Harsusi (Semitic)
Haryanavi or Haryani or Bangru (Indo-Aryan) (a dialect of Hindi)
Harzani (Iranian)
Hattic (unclassified, possibly Northwest Caucasian) (extinct)
Hausa (Afro-Asiatic)
Havasupai or Upland Yuman (Hokan)
Hawaiian (Malayo-Polynesian)
Hawaii Pidgin Sign Language (Signing)
Hazaragi (Iranian) (a dialect of Persian)
Hebrew (Semitic)
Herero (Bantu)
Hértevin (Semitic)
Hiligaynon or Ilonggo (Malayo-Polynesian)
Hindi (Indo-Aryan)
Hinukh (Northeast Caucasian)
Hiri Motu (Motu-based Pidgin)
Hittite (Anatolian)
Hixkaryana (Carib)
Hmong (Hmong Mien)
Ho (Austroasiatic)
Hobyót (Semitic)
Hopi (Uto-Aztecan
Hulaulá (Semitic)
Hungarian (Finno-Ugric)
Hurrian (Hurro-Urartian) (extinct)
Hutterite German (Germanic)
Ibibio (Volta-Congo)
Iban (Malayo-Polynesian)
Ibanag (Malayo-Polynesian)
Icelandic (Germanic)
Igbo or Ibo or Biafra (Volta-Congo)
Ikalanga or Kalanga (Bantu)
Ili Turki (Turkic)
Illinois (Algonquian) (extinct)
Ilokano or Ilocano (Malayo-Polynesian)
Inari Sami (Finno-Ugric)
Indonesian (Malayo-Polynesian)
Ingrian or Izhorian (Finno-Ugric)
Ingush (Northeast Caucasian)
Inuktitut (Eskimo-Aleut)
Inupiaq (Eskimo-Aleut)
Inuvialuktun (Eskimo-Aleut)
Iraqw (Cushitic)
Irish or Irish Gaelic (Celtic)
Irish Sign Language (Signing)
Irula (Dravidian)
Isan or Northeastern Thai (Tai-Kadai)
Istro-Romanian (Romance)
Italian (Romance)
Itelmen or Kamchadal (Chukotko-Kamchatkan)
Jacaltec or Jakalteko (Mayan)
Jalaa (unclassified, possibly Niger-Congo)
Japanese (isolated)
Jaqaru (Aymaran)
Jarai (Malayo-Polynesian)
Javanese (Malayo-Polynesian)
Jibbali or Shehri (Semitic)
Jicarilla Apache (Athabaskan)
Juang (Austro-Asiatic)
Judeo-Aramaic (Semitic) (extinct)
Jurchen (Tungusic) (extinct)
Kabardian (Northwest Caucasian)
Kabyle (Berber)
Kachin or Jingpo (Tibeto-Burman)
Kalaallisut or Greenlandic (Eskimo-Aleut)
Kalami or Gawri or Dirwali (Indo-Aryan)
Kalasha (Indo-Aryan)
Kalmyk or Oirat (Mongolic)
Kalto or Nahali (isolated or Indo-Aryan)
Kamas (Samoyedic) (extinct)
Kankanai or Kankanaey (Malayo-Polynesian)
Kannada (Dravidian)
Kaonde or Chikaonde (Bantu)
Kapampangan (Malayo-Polynesian)
Karachay-Balkar (Turkic)
Karagas (Turkic)
Karaim (Turkic)
Karakalpak (Turkic)
Karelian (Finno-Ugric)
Kashmiri (Indo-Aryan)
Kashubian (Slavic)
Kawi (Malayo-Polynesian) (extinct)
Kazakh (Turkic)
Kemi Sami (Finno-Ugric) (extinct)
Kensiu (Austro-Asiatic)
Kerek (Paleosiberian)
Ket (Chukotko-Kamchatkan)
Khakas (Turkic)
Khalaj (Iranian)
Kham or Sheshi (Tibeto-Burman)
Khandeshi (Indo-Aryan)
Khanty or Ostyak (Finno-Ugric)
Khasi (Austro-Asiatic)
Khazar (probably Turkic) (extinct)
Khirwar (Dravidian)
Khmer (Austro-Asiatic)
Khmu (Austro-Asiatic)
Khowar (Indo-Aryan)
Khunsari (Iranian)
Kildin Sami (Baltic-Finnic)
Kimatuumbi (Bantu)
Kinaray-a or Hiraya (Malayo-Polynesian)
Kinyarwanda (Bantu)
Kirombo (Bantu)
Kirundi (Bantu)
Kivunjo (Bantu)
Klallam or Clallam (Salishan)
Kodava Takk or Kodagu or Coorgi (Dravidian)
Kohistani or Khili (Indo-Aryan)
Kolami (Dravidian)
Komi or Komi-Zyrian (Finno-Ugric)
Konda (Trans-New Guinea)
Konkani (Indo-Aryan)
Kongo or Kikongo (Bantu)
Koraga (Dravidian)
Korandje (Nilo-Saharan)
Korean (isolated)
Korku (Austro-Asiatic)
Korowai (Trans-New Guinea)
Korwa (Austro-Asiatic)
Koryak (Chukotko-Kamchatkan)
Kosraean (Malayo-Polynesian)
Kota (Dravidian)
Koyra Chiini or Western Songhay (Nilo-Saharan)
Koy Sanjaq Surat (Semitic)
Koya (Dravidian)
Krymchak or Judeo-Crimean Tatar (Turkic)
Kujarge (unclassified, perhaps Chadic)
Kui (Dravidian)
Kumauni (Indo-Aryan)
Kumyk (Turkic)
Kumzari (Iranian)
ǃKung (Khoisan)
Kurdish (Iranian)
Kurukh or Kurux (Dravidian)
Kurumba (Dravidian)
Kusunda (Tibeto-Burman) (extinct)
Kutenai or Kootenay or Ktunaxa (isolated)
Kuvi (Dravidian)
Kwanyama or Ovambo (Bantu)
Kxoe (Khoisan)
Kyrgyz or Kirghiz (Turkic)
Laal (unclassified)
Ladakhi (Tibeto-Burman)
Ladin (Romance)
Ladino or Judeo-Spanish (Romance)
Lakota or Lakhota or Teton (Siouan)
Lambadi or Lamani or Banjari (Indo-Aryan)
Lao or Laotian (Tai-Kadai)
Latin (Romance) (liturgical language)
Latvian (Baltic)
Laz or Lazuri (South Caucasian)
Lenape or Unami or Delaware (Algonquian) (extinct)
Lepontic (Celtic) (extinct)
Lezgi or Agul (Northeast Caucasian)
Ligbi or Ligby (Mande)
Lingala (Bantu)
Lipan Apache (Athabascan)
Lisan al-Dawat (Indo-Aryan)
Lishana Deni (Semitic)
Lishanid Noshan or Lishana Didan (Semitic)
Lithuanian (Baltic)
Livonian or Liv (Finno-Ugric)
Lombard (Romance)
Lotha (Tibeto-Burman)
Low German or Low Saxon or Plattdeutsch (Germanic)
Lower Sorbian (Slavic)
Lozi or Silozi (Bantu)
Ludic or Ludian (Finno-Ugric)
Luganda (Bantu)
Lunda or Chilunda (Bantu)
Luri (Iranian)
Lushootseed (Salishan)
Lusoga or Soga (Bantu)
Luvale (Bantu)
Luwati (Indo-Iranian)
Luwian or Luvian (Anatolian) (extinct)
Luxembourgish (Germanic)
Lycian (Anatolian) (extinct)
Lydian (Anatolian) (extinct)
Macedonian (Slavic)
Macedonian, Ancient (Proto-Greek) (extinct)
Magadhi (Indo-Aryan)
Maguindanao (Malayo-Polynesian)
Mahican (Algonquian) (extinct)
Mahl (Indo-Aryan)
Maithili (Indo-Aryan)
Makasar (Malayo-Polynesian)
Makhuwa or Makua (Bantu)
Makhuwa-Meetto (Bantu)
Malagasy (Malayo-Polynesian)
Malay (Malayo-Polynesian)
Malayalam (Dravidian)
Malaysian Sign Language (Signing)
Maltese (Semitic)
Malto or Sauria Paharia (Dravidian)
Malvi or Malavi or Ujjaini (Indo-Aryan)
Mam (Mayan)
Manchurian (Tungusic)
Manda (Dravidian)
Mandaic (Semitic)
Mandarin (Sinitic)
Mandinka (Niger-Congo)
Mansi or Vogul (Finno-Ugric)
Manx (Celtic) (extinct)
Manyika (Bantu)
Maori (Malayo-Polynesian)
Mapudungun or Mapuche (isolated)
Maragoli (Bantu)
Maranao (Malayo-Polynesian)
Marathi (Indo-Aryan)
Mari or Cheremis (Finno-Ugric)
Maria (Dravidian)
Marquesan (Malayo-Polynesian)
Marshallese or Ebon (Malayo-Polynesian)
Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (Signing)
Masaba (Bantu)
Masbatenyo or Minasbate (Malayo-Polynesian
Meitei or Manipuri or Meithei (Tibeto-Burman)
Mesqan or Masqan (Semitic)
Mator (Samoyedic) (extinct)
Mauritian Creole or Morisyen (French-based creole)
Maya (Mayan)
Mazandarani or Tabari(Iranian)
Meänkieli or Tornedalen Finnish (Finno-Ugric)
Megleno-Romanian (Romance)
Megrelian or Mingrelian (South Caucasian)
Mehri or Mahri (Semitic)
Menominee (Algonquian)
Mentawai (Malayo-Polynesian)
Meroitic (unclassified, maybe Nilo-Saharan or isolated)
Merya (Finno-Ugric) (extinct)
Mescalero Apache (Athabaskan)
Mesmes (Semitic) (extinct)
Messapian (Indo-European (extinct)
Meru or Kimeru (Bantu)
Miami (Algonquian) (extinct)
Michif (mixed, French and Cree based)
Middle Dutch (Germanic) (extinct)
Middle English (Germanic) (extinct)
Middle French (Romance) (extinct)
Middle High German (Germanic) (extinct)
Middle Persian or Pahlavi (Iranian) (extinct)
Mikasuki or Miccosukee (Muskogean)
Mi'kmaq or Micmac (Algonquian)
Minaean (Semitic) (extinct)
Minangkabau (Malayo-Polynesian)
Mlahsô or Suryoyo (Semitic) (extinct)
Moabite (Semitic) (extinct)
Mobilian Jargon (pidgin, Choctaw and French based)
Moghol (Mongolic)
Mohawk (Iroquoian)
Mohegan (Algonquian) (extinct)
Moksha (Finno-Ugric)
Molengue (Bantu)
Mon (Austro-Asiatic)
Mongolian (Mongolic)
Mono (Volta-Congo)
Mono (Uto-Aztecan)
Mono (Malayo-Polynesian)
Montagnais (Algonquian)
Montenegrin (Slavic)
Motu (Malayo-Polynesian)
Mpre (unclassified, perhaps Niger-Congo or isolated) (extinct)
Muher (Semitic)
Mukha-Dora or Nuka (unclassified)
Mundari (Austro-Asiatic)
Munji (Iranian)
Murcian (Murcian)
Muria (Dravidian)
Muromian (Finno-Ugric) (extinct)
Murut (Malayo-Polynesian)
Nafaanra (Volta-Congo)
Nagarchal (Dravidian)
Nahuatl (Uto-Aztecan)
Naiki (Dravidian)
Nama (Khoisan)
Nanai (Tungusic)
Natanzi (Iranian)
Nauruan (Malayo-Polynesian)
Navajo or Navaho (Na-Dené)
Nayini or Biyabanak (Iranian)
Ndau or Southeast Shona (Bantu)
Ndebele (Bantu)
Ndonga (Bantu)
Neapolitan (Romance)
Negidal (Tungusic)
Nenets or Yurak (Samoyedic)
Nepal Bhasa or Newari (Tibeto-Burman)
Nepali (Indo-Aryan)
New Zealand Sign Language (Signing)
Nganasan or Tavgi (Samoyedic)
Ngumba (Bantu)
Nheengatu or Geral or Modern Tupí (Tupian)
Nicaraguan Sign Language (Signing)
Nicola) (Athabaskan languages) (extinct)
Niellim (Volta-Congo)
Nigerian Pidgin (pidgin, English-based)
Niuean or Niue (Malayo-Polynesian)
Nivkh or Gilyak (isolated)
Nogai (Turkic)
Norfuk or Norfolk or Pitcairn-Norfolk (cant, English-Tahitian based)
Norman or Norman-French (Romance)
Norn (Germanic) (extinct)
Northern Sami (Finno-Ugric)
Northern Sotho or Sepedi (Bantu)
Northern Straits Salish) (Salishan)
Northern Yukaghir (Yukaghir)
Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk, Riksmål) (Germanic)
Nuer (Nilotic)
Nuxálk or Bella Coola (Salishan)
Nyabwa (Volta-Congo)
Nyah Kur (Austro-Asiatic)
Nyangumarta (Pama-Nyungan)
Nyoro (Bantu)
Nǀu (Khoisan)
Occitan (Romance)
Ojibwe or Ojibwa or Chippewa (Algonquian)
Old Church Slavonic (Slavic) (extinct, liturgical language)
Old English or Anglo-Saxon (Germanic) (extinct)
Old French (Romance) (extinct)
Old French Sign Language (Signing) (extinct)
Old High German (Germanic) (extinct)
Old Norse (Germanic) (extinct)
Old Nubian language (Nilo-Saharan) (extinct)
Old Persian (Iranian) (extinct)
Old Prussian (Baltic) (extinct)
Old Saxon (Germanic) (extinct)
Old South Arabic (Semitic) (extinct)
Old Tupi or Tupinamba (Tupian) (extinct)
Olonets Karelian or Liv or Livvi (Finno-Ugric)
Omagua (Tupian)
Ongota (Afro-Asiatic)
Oriya (Indo-Aryan)
Ormuri (Iranian)
Oroch (Tungusic)
Orok (Tungusic)
Oromo or Afaan Oromoo (Cushitic)
Oropom (unclassified) (extinct)
Ossetic or Ossetian (Iranian)
Ottoman Turkish (Turkic) (extinct)
Páez or Nasa Yuwe (isolated)
Palaic (Anatolian) (extinct)
Palauan (Malayo-Polynesian)
Pali (Indo-Aryan) (extinct)
Pangasinan (Malayo-Polynesian)
Papiamento or Papiamentu (Portuguese-based creole)
Parachi (Iranian)
Parauk (Austro-Asiatic)
Parji or Duruwa (Dravidian)
Parya (Indo-Aryan)
Pashto or Pushto or Pashtu (Iranian)
Passamaquoddy or Maliseet-Passamaquoddy or Malecite-Passamaquoddy (Algonquian)
Pecheneg (Turkic) (extinct)
Pemon or Pemong (Cariban)
Pengo (Dravidian)
Pennsylvania Dutch or Pennsylvania German (Germanic)
Pentlatch or Puntlatch (Salishan) (extinct)
Persian or Farsi (Iranian)
Phalura (Indo-Aryan)
Phoenician (Semitic) (extinct)
Phrygian (Indo-European) (extinct)
Phuthi (Bantu)
Picard (Romance)
Pictish (Celtic) (extinct)
Pirahã (Mura)
Pisidian (Anatolian) (extinct)
Plautdietsch or Mennonite Low German (Germanic)
Polabian (Slavic (extinct)
Polish (Slavic)
Portuguese (Romance)
Pothohari or Pahari-Potwari (Indo-Aryan)
Potiguara (Tupian) (extinct)
Pradhan or Pardhan (Dravidian)
Prakrit (Indo-Aryan) (extinct)
Proto-Indo-European (Indo-European) (extinct)
Provençal (Romance)
Puelche (isolated)
Puma (Tibeto-Burman)
Punjabi or Panjabi or Gurmukhi (Indo-Aryan)
Qashqai or Ghashghai (Turkic)
Qatabanian (Semitic) (extinct)
Quebec Sign Language (Signing)
Quechua (Quechuan)
Rajasthani (Indo-Aryan)
Ratagnon or Datagnon or Latagnun (Malayo-Polynesian)
Réunion Creole or Bourbonnais (French-based creole)
Romanian (Romance)
Romansh or Rhaeto-Romance (Romance)
Romany (Indo-Iranian)
Romblomanon (Malayo-Polynesian)
Rotokas (East Papuan)
Runyankole language or Nyankore (Bantu)
Russenorsk (Russian-Norwegian pidgin) (extinct)
Russian (Slavic)
Russian Sign Language (Signing)
Ruthenian or Rusyn or Carpathian (Slavic)
Sabaean (Semitic) (extinct)
Salar (Turkic)
Samaritan Hebrew (Semitic) (extinct)
Samoan (Malayo-Polynesian)
Sandawe (Khoisan)
Sangisari or Sangesari (Iranian)
Sanglechi-Ishkashimi (Iranian)
Sango (Ngbandi-based creole)
Sanskrit (Indo-Aryan) (liturgical language)
Santali (Austro-Asiatic)
Sara (Malayo-Polynesian)
Saramaccan (English-based creole)
Sardinian (Romance)
Sarikoli (Iranian)
Saurashtra or Sourashtra (Indo-Aryan)
Savara (Dravidian)
Savi (Indo-Aryan)
Sawai (Malayo-Polynesian)
Scots (Germanic)
Scottish Gaelic or Scots Gaelic (Celtic)
Selangor Sign Language (Signing)
Selkup or Ostyak Samoyed (Samoyedic)
Selonian (Baltic) (extinct)
Semnani (Iranian)
Senaya (Semitic)
Sened (Berber) (extinct)
Senhaja de Srair (Berber) (extinct)
Sephardi Hebrew (Semitic)
Serbian (Slavic)
Serbo-Croatian (Slavic)
Sesotho (Bantu)
Seto or Setu (Finno-Ugric)
Seychellois Creole (French-based creole)
Shahrudi (Iranian)
Shimaore (Bantu)
Shina (Indo-Aryan)
Shona (Bantu)
Shor (Turkic)
Shughni (Iranian)
Shumashti (Indo-Aryan)
Shuswap (Salishan)
Sicilian (Romance)
Sidamo (Cushitic)
Sidetic (Anatolian) (extinct)
Sika (Malayo-Polynesian)
Silesian (Slavic)
Silt'e or Selti or East Gurage (Semitic)
Sindhi (Indo-Aryan)
Sinhalese (Indo-Aryan)
Sioux (Siouan)
Siraiki or Seraiki or Southern Punjabi (Indo-Aryan)
Sivandi (Iranian)
Skolt Sami (Finno-Ugric)
Slavey (Athabaskan)
Slovak (Slavic)
Slovenian or Slovene (Slavic)
Soddo or Kistane (Semitic)
Soi (Iranian)
Somali (Cushitic)
Sonjo or Temi (Bantu)
Sonsorolese or Sonsorol (Malayo-Polynesian)
Soqotri (Semitic)
Sora (Austro-Asiatic)
Sorbian, Lower (Slavic)
Sorbian, Upper (Slavic)
Sourashtra (Indo-Aryan)
Southern Sami (Finno-Ugric)
South Estonian (Finno-Ugric)
Southern Yukaghir or Tundra Yukaghir (Yukaghir)
Spanish (Romance)
Sranan Tongo (English-based creole)
St'at'imcets or Lillooet (Salishan)
Sucite or Sìcìté Sénoufo (Volta-Congo)
Suba (Bantu)
Sudovian or Yotvingian (Baltic) (extinct)
Sumerian (isolated) (extinct)
Sundanese (Malayo-Polynesian)
Supyire or Supyire Senoufo (Volta-Congo)
Surigaonon (Malayo-Polynesian)
Susu (Niger-Congo)
Svan (South Caucasian)
Swahili (Bantu)
Swati or Swazi or Siswati or Seswati (Bantu)
Swedish (Germanic)
Syriac (Semitic)
Tabasaran or Tabassaran (Northeast Caucasian)
Tachelhit (Berber)
Tagalog (Malayo-Polynesian)
Tahitian (Malayo-Polynesian)
Taiwanese Sign Language (Signing)
Tajik (Iranian)
Takestani (Iranian)
Talysh (Iranian)
Tamil (Dravidian)
Tanacross (Athabaskan)
Tangut or Xixia (Tibeto-Burman) (extinct)
Tarifit or Rifi or Riff Berber (Berber)
Tat or Tati (Iranian)
Tatar (Turkic)
Tausug (Malayo-Polynesian)
Tehuelche (Chon)
Telugu (Dravidian)
Temiar or Northern Sakai (Austro-Asiatic)
Tetum (Malayo-Polynesian)
Tepehua language (Totonacan)
Tepehuán language (Uto-Aztecan))
Thai (Tai-Kadai)
Tharu (Indo-Aryan)
Thracian (Indo-European) (extinct)
Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman)
Tigre or Xasa (Semitic)
Tigrinya (Semitic)
Tillamook (Salishan) (extinct)
Tirahi (Indo-Aryan)
Tiv (Volta-Congo)
Tlingit (Na-Dené)
Tobian (Malayo-Polynesian)
Tocharian A and B (Indo-European) (extinct)
Toda (Dravidian)
Tok Pisin (English-based creole)
Tokelauan (Malayo-Polynesian)
Tonga (Bantu)
Tongan (Malayo-Polynesian)
Tongva (Uto-Aztecan) (extinct)
Torwali or Turvali (Indo-Aryan)
Tregami (Indo-Aryan)
Tsat (Malayo-Polynesian)
Tsez or Dido (Northeast Caucasian)
Tshiluba or Luba-Kasai or Luba-Lulua (Bantu)
Tsimshian (Penutian)
Tsonga (Bantu)
Tswana or Setswana (Bantu)
Tu or Monguor (Mongolic)
Tuareg languages or Tamasheq (Berber)
Tulu (Dravidian)
Tumbuka (Bantu)
Tupiniquim (Tupian)
Turkish (Turkic)
Turkmen (Turkic)
Turoyo (Semitic)
Tuvaluan (Malayo-Polynesian)
Tuvan Tuvin or Tyvan (Turkic)
Ubykh (Northwest Caucasian) (extinct)
Udihe or Ude or Udege (Tungusic)
Udmurt or Votyak (Finno-Ugric)
Ugaritic (Semitic) (extinct)
Ukrainian (Slavic)
Ulbare (Semitic)
Ulch or Olcha (Tungusic)
Unserdeutsch or Rabaul Creole German (German-based creole)
Upper Sorbian (Slavic)
Urdu (Indic)
Uripiv (Malayo-Polynesian)
Urum (Turkic)
Ute (Uto-Aztecan)
Uyghur or Uigur (Turkic)
Uzbek (Turkic)
Vafsi (Iranian)
Valencian Sign Language (Signing)
Vasi-vari or Prasuni (Indo-Aryan)
Venda or Tshivenda (Bantu)
Venetian (Romance)
Veps (Finno-Ugric)
Vietnamese (Austro-Asiatic)
Võro (Finno-Ugric)
Votic or Votian (Finno-Ugric)
Waddar (Dravidian)
Waigali or Kalasha-Ala (Indo-Aryan)
Waima or Roro (Malayo-Polynesian)
Wakhi (Iranian)
Walloon (Romance)
Waneci (Iranian)
Wapishana or Aruma (Arawakan)
Waray-Waray or Binisaya (Malayo-Polynesian)
Washo (Hokan)
Welsh (Celtic)
Western Neo-Aramaic (Semitic)
Weyto (unclassified, probably Afro-Asiatic) (extinct)
Wolane (Semitic)
Wolof (Niger-Congo)
Wotapuri-Katarqalai (Indo-Aryan)
Wu (Sinitic)
Xam (Khoisan) (extinct)
Xhosa (Bantu)
Xiang (Sinitic)
Xibe or Sibo (Tungusic)
ǃXóõ (Khoisan)
Xokó (unclassified) (extinct)
Xukurú (unclassified) (extinct)
Yaaku language
Yaeyama language
Yakut
Yankunytjatjara language
Yanomami
Yanyuwa language
Yapese
Yaqui language
Yauma language (Bantu)
Yavapai language
Yazdi (Iranian)
Yemenite Hebrew language (Semitic)
Yeni language
Yevanic language
Yi language
Yiddish (Germanic)
Yogur (also known as Yoghur, (Mongolic) Sarï Uyghur, and (Mongolic) Yellow Uyghur, Mongolic)
Yokutsan languages
Yonaguni language
Yorùbá language
Yucatec Maya language
Yucatec Maya Sign Language (Signing)
Yuchi language
Yugur (also known as Yughur, (Turkicic) Sarïgh Uyghur, and (Turkic) Yellow Uyghur, Turkic)
Yukaghir languages
Yupik language (Eskimo-Aleut)
Yurats language
Yurok language
Záparo (Saparoan)
Zapotec (Oto-Manguean)
Zazaki (Iranian)
Zhuang (Tai-Kadai)
Zoque (Mixe-Zoquean)
Zulu (Niger-Congo) (Bantu)
Zuñi or Zuni (isolated)
Zway or Zay (Semitic)

[mobuttu]

Catalan (Romance)

Hey, here's my mother language!!

[drewkitty ~..~]

PF RPG Languages
Elven (aka dragonese)
Dwarven
Wolven
Faerie Speak
Giantese
Gobblely
Human languages
--weastern (Empire)
--southern
--eastern
--northern
Formal Elven (dialect)
Demongogian
Ashada
Kaejor
Ancient Elven (dialect)

[dragon_blaze_99]

Elemental
im working on a list of AU ones will post it soonish

[Vinny]

Languages from the NEXUS Navigator=

[mobuttu]

Suddenly, my years of high school Spanish don't seem so impressive.

142 nations on earth, each one with a different dialect of multiple languages....it's easy to get overwhelmed by the notion.

Don't forget those nations that aren't linked to a state/independent government but also have it's own language, such as Catalonia, Euskadi, Scotland, Tibet, etc.

Keep in mind though, it's not how many languages you speak that are important...but what languages do you know that will let you communicate with the most amount of people?

Which is preferable: knowing Spanish or Tahitian as an alternate language?

I would say that it's not how many languages you speak that are important, but to know the language you'll use most for your destination. Knowing Spanish won't be of any help if you go to Tahiti

[mobuttu]

I would say that it's not how many languages you speak that are important, but to know the language you'll use most for your destination. Knowing Spanish won't be of any help if you go to Tahiti

I knew this was going to be said. I thought about including a disclaimer to acknowledge it....but I just knew someone was going to say that.

But actually, considering how tourist-heavy Tahiti is...you're still better off knowing Spanish. You can visit most of the world knowing Spanish...Tahitian is only good in Tahiti.

Of course you are right. I only meant that it's important to have in mind where somebody is going and try to learn as much languages as possible. Because applying your theory, in the world there would be only a bunch of languages: mostly English, Spanish, French, Russian, Chinese, Arabian and Japanese (I'm sure I'm leaving someone). Surely you will agree with me that it would represent a huge lost of cultural diversity in the world (in front of the big list someone posted before). In fact, it is what has happened in the world of Rifts, which is a pity (although more playable).

[mobuttu]

I understand.

[jade von delioch]

so how many of those languages are dead languages?

[drewkitty ~..~]

Ran across one in the DB's of NA book in the Seridan warrior section....Splugorth.

[The ineffible GM]

so how many of those languages are dead languages?

I think the better question would be which of them are NOT dead languages. That's a much shorter list.

As far as "languages of the world" go, that IS a short list.
I could be mistaken but I believe those are all spoken languages in the world.


Now, wait 50 years and at least half of them will be gone, but probably closer to 75%.

[The ineffible GM]

Sorry, my mistake, some are dead languages. The extinct ones are labeled as such in the list though.

[jade von delioch]

just wondering.. i figure it will be harder for a pc to learn a dead language than any other language. i think it would probably take up at least 2 skill slots, maybe 3.

[The ineffible GM]

Not necessarily.
It depends on how the character is going about learning it.
Latin is, for all intents, dead. However, that means that there is not a population in the world anywhere that is currently incorporating new words into it, or making new slang to learn. It means that if you can find a 'how-to' book on Latin then what is there is it. It is no longer alive. Someone learning English nowadays not only has to deal with "will not" and "jewelry", but also things of cultural relevence that are relatively recent, like "ain't" and "bling".
If no translation (like a how to book or word to word dictionary) is readily available and you have only old written texts to work with, then it can be almost impossible to learn. We can only read ancient egyptian because the rosetta stone provided a translation. People will spend decades trying to translate a single book from a dead language like that, sometimes spend a lifetime and never get that far.
If you are learning it from someone else who speaks the language, then it should be as easy as any other language that is not dead.

[jade von delioch]

i don't think Latins really all that dead. I mean it lives on within english, french, and spanish. Plus every Chathic School here and in europe still teachs Latin to it's students.

[mobuttu]

i don't think Latins really all that dead. I mean it lives on within english, french, and spanish. Plus every Chathic School here and in europe still teachs Latin to it's students.

Latin lives in all Romance languages, btw. And It hasn't to be Catholic school. I studied in a lay highschool where they teach me latin, as it is the origin of Catalan and Spanish.

[The ineffible GM]

Latin is a dead language, because it as a language no longer has changing grammar or new vocabulary.

It has greatly influenced other languages, the Romantic languages specifically, but Italian is not Latin. French is not Latin. Spanish is not Latin.

Latin is probably the most prominent dead language in the world, and that is primarily due to it's use in scientific terminology, and even moreso due to it's use in medical terminology.
You can also, fairly easily, find books that will teach you Latin.
What makes a language a dead language, is that it is no longer changing. Latin is also an 'extinct' language, a language which no longer has any native speakers.

[The ineffible GM]

Overall, I really see Latin becoming completely extinct as a language in Rifts.

Yeah, probably. If you really wanted to learn it, you may well be able to find a pre-rifts artifact of a 'how-to' guide to Latin. Also, it might have survived in a couple of places probably related to the study of medicine, or if you want to get cinematic perhaps in a place with a history of magic study, like Dweomer or Lazlo. Actually, either way, Lazlo is probably the most likely place to find any remains of Latin.

[jade von delioch]

yes, i dout latin would servive the coming of the rifts.

i understand that under a linguistic sense that latin is dead, becuase it no longer grows as a language should.. But in a everyday, non-linguistic sense it still exist and is spoken therefore not dead or non-existant.. when an average person thinks of a dead language they think of a language that is no longer learned or spoken... this is waht i meant earlier.

[The ineffible GM]

yes, i dout latin would servive the coming of the rifts.

i understand that under a linguistic sense that latin is dead, becuase it no longer grows as a language should.. But in a everyday, non-linguistic sense it still exist and is spoken therefore not dead or non-existant.. when an average person thinks of a dead language they think of a language that is no longer learned or spoken... this is waht i meant earlier.

Sorry.
You're right that it is still around, and as such is available to people.

I think if a character wanted to learn a language that was not around at all anymore, as in no speakers to learn from, and no written translations, it would be pretty much impossible.
With years and years of research, and if the player already knew a language that was very similar, then it might be possible. But the character would never know if he/she was pronouncing things properly, and many of the translated words might not be entirely accurate.

[lather]

More than Latin, too. Given the tiny world population after the cataclysm, most languages were lost.

[jade von delioch]

yes, i dout latin would servive the coming of the rifts.

i understand that under a linguistic sense that latin is dead, becuase it no longer grows as a language should.. But in a everyday, non-linguistic sense it still exist and is spoken therefore not dead or non-existant.. when an average person thinks of a dead language they think of a language that is no longer learned or spoken... this is waht i meant earlier.

Sorry.
You're right that it is still around, and as such is available to people.

I think if a character wanted to learn a language that was not around at all anymore, as in no speakers to learn from, and no written translations, it would be pretty much impossible.
With years and years of research, and if the player already knew a language that was very similar, then it might be possible. But the character would never know if he/she was pronouncing things properly, and many of the translated words might not be entirely accurate.

i think this is the case with modern men who know Egyptian are not totally sure they are pronouncing it correctly.

[mobuttu]

I agree, Latin would be lost in the Rifts era.
That sparks an Idea on me: How about if it was used as a "secret" language, or some kind of code, as when allies used navajo language in the WWII? Maybe CS or Lazlo found a latin manual in a lost library and use it for secret communications!

[lather]

.... and encrypted.

[drewkitty ~..~]

I agree, Latin would be lost in the Rifts era.
That sparks an Idea on me: How about if it was used as a "secret" language, or some kind of code, as when allies used navajo language in the WWII? Maybe CS or Lazlo found a latin manual in a lost library and use it for secret communications!

As long as there is the Cathlic Church, Latin would at least be used for church matters, but not fall into extinction. Ans sence the game books don't cover religion there is nothing to say that it has dissappered from rifts earth.

[mobuttu]

No... but I'll get the ball rolling.

Wormwood languages
* Wormwoodian English (olde Anglish?)
* Demongogian

Domongogian is also present in Rifts earth through the multiple demons it is plagued by.

[Nelly]

Thats a damned long list of languages...

Euro (Imagine if German, Italian, French, Spanish, and Polish all got drunk and had a dirty orgy)

somehow we've got that on the Academy where I am studying. Lots of people from all over the world, and sometimes there are people who speak a bit of everything but not enough to get a whole sentences together. So we use like three or four different languages to have a conversation LOL.

It's hilarous and funny as hell.

[Natasha]

Yip. Though it can be frustrating, too

[Nelly]

Yip. Though it can be frustrating, too

Yeah especially when they get something wrong and you trie to explain that there's nothing going on. Or if they do not get the subtles. I mean my english is well but I do not even get all of the subtles and take things the wrong way, yet it is good enough to sort the problem out. But if they don't understand at all.... Jeeeeez!

[Natasha]

Yip. Though it can be frustrating, too

Yeah especially when they get something wrong and you trie to explain that there's nothing going on. Or if they do not get the subtles. I mean my english is well but I do not even get all of the subtles and take things the wrong way, yet it is good enough to sort the problem out. But if they don't understand at all.... Jeeeeez!

Understood perfectly

A friend got married and they designated a small table to put a rose/flower on when one messes up. Rose gets picked up, enjoyed, and life rolls on. Life's too short to fight with your friends (or spouse). There's been a few roses; so far it's worked out.

With friends you can just hold up a "stop" card and the conversation ends immediately so things can be explained. If they can't, well, move on.

[Nelly]

Yip. Though it can be frustrating, too

Yeah especially when they get something wrong and you trie to explain that there's nothing going on. Or if they do not get the subtles. I mean my english is well but I do not even get all of the subtles and take things the wrong way, yet it is good enough to sort the problem out. But if they don't understand at all.... Jeeeeez!

Understood perfectly

A friend got married and they designated a small table to put a rose/flower on when one messes up. Rose gets picked up, enjoyed, and life rolls on. Life's too short to fight with your friends (or spouse). There's been a few roses; so far it's worked out.

With friends you can just hold up a "stop" card and the conversation ends immediately so things can be explained. If they can't, well, move on.

Yeah, I've also had that a couple of times with my bf over german idioms I've translated into english.... but you know what? This is what I miss in the games. Sometimes you got characters who barely can speak a language but this never has any affects on the game because usually the gamers are just too lazy...

[Natasha]

Sometimes you got characters who barely can speak a language but this never has any affects on the game because usually the gamers are just too lazy...

I know what you mean.

"I failed my language check. My character, however, didn't."