Languages of Mythic Europe

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Introduction

These are the languages and rules defined for Mythic Europe for Simon Cornelius’ Ars Magica game. It is based on Guardians of the Forest and The Lion and the Lily source books.

Language Groups

The main division of languages is into Language Groups.

Language Tables

Celtic Languages

Language Group	Sub-Groups	Languages	Dialects
Celtic Languages	Goidelic (Gaelic)	Irish Gaelic	Leinster, Munster, Ulster, Connaught
		Scots Gaelic	East Highlands, West Highlands and Islands
		Manx Gaelic	Manx
	Brythonic	Breton	East Breton, West Breton
		Cornish	Cornish
		Cumbrian	Cumbrian
		Northern Welsh	Northern Welsh
		Southern Welsh	Southern Welsh

Germanic Languages

Language Group	Sub-Groups	Languages	Dialects
Germanic	Anglo-Frisian Group	Lowland Scots	Lowland Scots
		Northern English	Mercian, Northumbrian
		Southern English	Wessex, Sussex, Anglia, Kent, Middle English
		Frisian	Frisian
	German Group	Low German	Flemish, Holland, Brabant , Westphalian, Emsland, Bremenasch, Holstein, Oldenburg, Mecklenburg, Brandenburg, Pommern
		Middle German	Thuringian, Mittelfränkisch, Hessian, Upper Saxon, Silesian German, Lusatian German
		High German	Alsatian, Bavarian, Bohemian, Carinthian, Franconian, Luxemburgish, Styrian, Swabian, Swiss German, Tyrolian, Yiddish
	Norse	Icelandic	Icelandic
		Norwegian	Southern Norwegian
		Faeroese	Faeroese
		Danish	Danish
		Eastern Norse	Swedish, Scanian, Gotlandish

Romance (Latinate) Languages

Language Group	Sub-Groups	Languages	Dialects
Romance Languages	French Languages	Northern French (Langues d'oïl)	Francien (Orléans, Bourbonnais, Champagne, Paris)
			Picard (Picardy, Lorraine, Franc-Comtois)
			Norman (Normandy, eastern Brittany, Maine)
			Poitevin (Poitou, Saintonge, Anjou)
			Bourguignon (Burgundy)
			Walloon (Flanders, Brabant)
		Langues d’Oc	Languedocien (Toulouse)
			Provençal (Arles, Avignon, Nîmes, Provencal Maritime, Nice)
			Gascon (Guyenne)
			Occitan (Limousin, Auvergnat Provençal Alpine)
	Iberian Languages	Catalan	Catalan (Catalonia)
		Portuguese	Portuguese (Portugal)
		Aragonese	Aragonese (Aragon, Navarre)
		Castilian	Castilian (Castile)
	Italian Languages	Gallo-Italian	Piedmontese, Lombard, Emiliano-Romagnolo, Ligurian, Venetian
		Italo-Dalmatian	Tuscan, Sicilian, Neapolitan, Corsican
		Sardinian	Sardinian
	Eastern Romance	Dalmatian	Dalmatian (Dalmatia)
		Romanian	Romanian (Romania)

Greco-Armemian

Language Group	Sub-Groups	Languages	Dialects
Greco-Armemian	Greek		"Standard" (Constantinopolitan), Cypriot, Cretan, Cappodocian
	Armenian		Armenia, Cicilian

Finno-Ugric Languages

Language Group	Sub-Groups	Languages	Dialects
Finno-Ugric	Ugric	Hungarian	Western, Eastern, Csango
	Finno-Lappic	Estonian	Estonian
		Livonian	Livonian
		Finnish	Finnish, Karelian
		Sammi	Western, Eastern

Other Languages

• Albanian: Gheg dialect is spoken in the north; Tosk dialect, the south.
• Arabic: Spoken through most of the Islamic world. Local languages also exist.
• Basque: spoken in the western Pyrenees.
• Berber: spoken in Moorish Spain and Northern Africa.
• Caucasian languages: A wide variety of languages are spoken in the Caucasian mountains, with only a passing similarity to each other. They are not Indo-European languages.
• Magyar: spoken in the middle Danube basin (Hungary).
• Maltese: spoken on Malta, oddly enough.
• Persian (a.k.a. Farsi): One of the more prominent languages of the Islamic world.