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. Each language characters take must have a dialect as a specialty; for PCs and other important NPCs, they may take any other specialty.
The following rules are used to determine whether or not languages are mutually intelligible:
- The same dialect, or the same language without dialect: -0 to speaking rolls
- Different dialects of the same language: -1 penalty to both speakers
- Different languages/dialects of the same sub-group: -2 penalty to both speakers
- Different languages/dialects of different sub-groups in the same group: -4 to both speakers
Effectively, there's a -1 penalty for each "step" you have to go up on the chart to reach a common language ancestor, with a -2 if you reach the main language group at the far left.
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) | ||
| Latin | Ecclesiastic Latin, Hermetic Latin, Judeo-Latin | ||
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
Language Isolates
- Albanian: Gheg dialect is spoken in the north; Tosk dialect, the south.
- Basque: spoken in the western Pyrenees.
Semitic Languages
- Arabic: Spoken through most of the Islamic world. Local languages also exist.
- Maltese: spoken on Malta, oddly enough; an Arabic off-shoot
- Medieval Hebrew, flourished in Spain, used among Jews as a common language much like Latin in the Christian world
Other
- 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.
- Persian (a.k.a. Farsi): One of the more prominent languages of the Islamic world.