words

Normal

>>49860958
Extremely Common.

>>49860958
Spanish.

>>49860958
English

English, or alternatively, Esperanto.

>>49860958
Low Gothic

Tradespeak

Plebeian

(Your Kingdom Here)-ish

>>49860958
Trade
Standard
Translator charms
Aeronautish

The Trade-Tongue, Merchant's Tongue, or just fucking use Common because it's a good term that isn't a specific name for a language like "English" or "Latin", which is what it would actually have and your desire to be a contrarian fuck doesn't make you original. Being original would be inventing a word from a fictional language that is the title for that language, probably derived from that language's place-name for its people of origin. Christ.

Tradespeak
It is so common because it was originally a pidgin language that was developed and spread by traders so they could communicate and barter across different regions.

>>49860958
Basic Land Slot

Lingua franca

Literally "frank talk"

unrelated, but I've long desired to make a character named Frank Lingua.

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>>49860958
> What's a good alternative name for a language spoken by many races besides "Common"?
Banter.

>>49861106
But then Indians wouldn't be able to handle it.

>>49861046
It is based on a common human tongue, amusingly called Common.

>>49860958
Basic language.

>>49861166
And how is that a problem?

A lot of races are unable to handle it.
That's why they are still primitive.
The fact that Indians are unable to handle the "poo in the loo" meme is indicative that it's true. What kind of people that have designated shitting streets can be called "highly advanced"?

You cannot handle the banter - you are a primitive fuck. Q.E.D.

{Name of the planet here}ian

Tradespeak, Merchant-Tongue, Humanoid, Civil-Tongue, Camp-Talk, Peasant-Tongue, Farmspeak

Basically anything that has to do with something trade or working class related and then some word meaning or referring to talking,

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>>49860958
Cosmopolitan

Its what zoologists use to refer to specific families and orders of organisms that exist on all continents, such as Order Chiroptera.

Pic not necessarily related

>>49861106
>>49861213
Why do you want a Australia based game?

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>>49861250
>a Australia
>a
>Australia
>a
Anon, it is "an"

>>49861250
But it's a perfect setting, mate!
>a land full of wandering monsters
>very few actually inhabitable places - everything else is literally a hostile land ripe for adventuring and murderhoboing
>everyone living there is more likely to be a crazy/awesome/crazy awesome murderhobo than anywhere else

>>49861285
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDW_ibmafyc

Go fuck you'reself

>>49860958
Trade speak

>>49860958
Latin

Pidgin. Everyone can express basic terms and conduct trade, but it's not the language of official diplomacy or the learned.

>>49861305
No need to be so fucking touchy, bloke. Learn to banter.

Pidgin

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>>49861290
>Wanting to live in an area where epic level heroes are one-shot by common stingrays

Gronk, originally an Orc language, it evolved into a trader tongue because of how easy it it is to learn, being less than a thousand words and having very loose grammar rules, words that do not exist in Gronk are borrowed from other languages and eventually become part of the language.

>>49861046
Actually, "barter" would be a good name

>>49861305
>you're

>>49861349
pretty sure thats the joke

>>49860958
Secret ultra giga nigga rare

>>49861338
He specced into Ranger and put all of his points into Grappling, Animal Handling and Knowledge (Nature).

GRAPPLING, ANON, GRAPPLING! AND HE TOOK TOUGHNESS AS A FEAT!

I'm not saying he deserved to die, but his choice of skills and feats was subpar for an adventurer.

>>49860958
Ebonics

>>49861285
Trolling is a art

>>49861571
ur mum's a art, dun with muh dipstick

>>49861394
No

>>49860958
Basic, a la Star Wars.
Universal is a good one, too.

>>49861032
Whoah there, Anon.

Arbitrarian

>>49860958
Bara

>>49861832
That means "rose" in Japanese.

>>49860958
Trade tounge

>>49860958
Pidgin
Creole
Lingua Franca
Semaphore
Cant

Really, your campaign setting might have a small handful of regional languages. Latin and Greek for instance. That said they could be named for the dead empires that spoke them.

Protoindoeuropean

>>49861002
>Esperanto
>spoken by many

>>49860958
The reason, that in the early 21st century, that a non-trivial number of people across the world have SOME idea of a handful of English words is due to the economic, political, and cultural power of The United States of America has exerted over the past few decades as the world's superpower. As well as the ease of communication with such things as the Internet, and whatnot. If, in whatever region you intend to set your game, there is a large regional power, such as a country of some sort, then it's likely that most of the people in said area will know at least a few words or phrases in that tongue. Thus, name "common" the language of the hypothetical kingdom.

There's no such thing as a universal "common" in Feudal times all across the world, everywhere.

>>49861947
Right now? No.
Back in 70s? A bunch of people knew esperanto.
True, not comparable to a proper language, but for a purely artificial constructed language esperanto was quite successful.

>>49860958
Is it a natural language or an artificial one?

If its a natural language, name it after the people who spoke it first like every other language in the history of the world.

If its an artificial one, name it after some sort of characteristic of the language (IE; lojban) or get a bit metaphorical with it with and give it some sort of internal meaning (IE; Esperanto means "One who hopes", which has a metaphorical meaning relating to why it was made).

>>49861571
You say Oostreliea, right? Now, what does that tell you? fuck, I got baited on some meta level didn´t I?

>>49860958
Human.

If you're having any races besides humans and they are not exterminated to a man yet, you're a shit DM.

>>49861002
Bona! Vi pravas pri esperanton!

>>49862129
>Human extremism
*Yawn* It was was fun the first hundreds of time but it's stale.

>>49861903
Neat.

>>49860958
"Trade language"

>>49861986
Kaj gi suficas nun.

Creole.

>>49860958
Universal Insult Tongue.

>>49861618
some artist are better than others

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>>49862380
>Universal Insult Tongue.
?

>>49860958
English.

At some point or other, England has had colonies all across the multiverse. Eventually people realized SOMEONE knows a bit of English everywhere and it's study became common

>>49862242
>butthurt elf lover

Fuck off. It's a human-only zone.

>>49862466
suffer not the xenos

>>49862442
Some say that sun still shines eternally upon the English multiversal empire...

>>49860958
Lingua Franca?

You know, the entire concept of "Common" is stupid. Everyone has their own racial languages except humans, who exclusively speak this one language that everyone happens to speak.

In my setting there is no "common". The elves are the dominant cultural force, so everyone learns Elven as a second language (a bit like how in the ancient world Koinè was the patrician's second language of choice, in the Early Modern era everyone worth speaking too learned French and how today you need to know English to function on the international market). The human language is called after the largest human kingdom: Occitania. "Humanspeak" is therefore Occitan.

I realize I might be acting like a special snowflake here, but this idea of "Common" always rubbed me the wrong way.

>>49860958
Pangean

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>>49862466
But I'm a dragon lover. ;)

>>49862578
> Everyone has their own racial languages except humans, who exclusively speak this one language that everyone happens to speak.
So, just like English?

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>>49862604
Wow, aren't you a clever little boy? It's almost like you didn't read the rest of my fucking post, including the part where I bring up English.

>>49862640
What can I say, my attention span is rather sh--

...What were we talking about again?

>>49860958
XML

>>49862578
>I realize I might be acting like a special snowflake here, but this idea of "Common" always rubbed me the wrong way.
Koiné literally means "common"

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>>49862687
Well, fuck me sideways

>>49862397
I got halfway through before I realized it was rhyming.

>>49860958
How many lingua francas do you know that are called 'common'? That's right. Zero.

Even if it was a language typically only used for trade, based originally on some previous lingua franca with highly simplistic grammar and many loans people would still not call it common. People wouldn't even call it 'the lingua franca'. They would have a name for it based on what the original language was called, such as 'simple [name]' or 'merchant [name]'. But, languages being as they are, people to ably stopped caring about the etymology pretty quickly and the name mutated along with the rest of the language so that you could only reason your way to its original meaning and how it must have been called originally by thinking about it for a while.

>>49860996
You mean Castilian

>>49863307
>Wanting to speak with a lisp

>>49860958
Whichever language was native to whichever country most recently conquered the majority of the known world (or at least its trade and finances).

>>49862578
I take it Occitania is in the west?

Just call it what it is.
Latin.
English.
Ching Chong Ling Long.

>>49860958
Voice.
As opposed to Click, Warble, and *MINDSPEAK

>>49862016
Straya! You fucking Galah.

>>49864742
Doodleoodleg

Lame.

>>49860958
Trade Lingo.

>>49860958
How about do enough worldbuilding to figure out why there would be a language spoken by many various nations over a long distance, and then name that language whatever it would logically be called (probably the adjective form of whoever originally spoke it).

Just make a name and say that its spoken by everyone.

>>49861394
I can dig it.

>>49860958
That's a weird thinking position anon. I think I knew where that's from.

>>49865629
You don't actually know what Ebonics is do you anon?

>>49860958
The best reasoning to use for this is irl trade practices, of which there could be various interpretations:

A) The most "common" language:
Make the language of the most trade-focused race the most common language among merchants and craftsmen; regularly picked up by their families and associates, making it the common tongue, so maybe most people speak Dwarven or Human, but not everyone, though not everyone. So if you went to an Elf-Town in a world where [Human] is the common trade-language, then 100% of them would speak [Elf] and 40-60% of them would speak [Human], and maybe another 10-30% very broken [Human].
This happened a lot in many places irl.

B) A self-perpetuating trade-tongue.
Similar to situation A, but it's actually an amalgamation of common phrases and idioms from all of the more common languages, as opposed to a broadly spread language. Lots of simple phrases and common terms from the more common human, elf, and dwarf languages. Nobody's really "fluent" in trade-tongue, but through it you get the gist of what everyone's saying.
This also happened sometimes irl, commonly refereed to as pigeon languages. "The people of the high mountains have a saying..." etc. Call it pigeon, trade, or common, but impose minuscule penalties when trying to convey something super specific.

C) A country took over a huge chunk of the known-world, to the point where they command a majority of international trade.
See A) for more details.

>>49864742
>Moodletthoodlew.
Bleh.

>>49864742
Joodlenny

>>49860958
"The Queen's"

>>49864742
Goodlery Goodlegoodlex's Ghoodlest

>>49865661
>Make the language of the most trade-focused race the most common language among merchants and craftsmen
Not necessarily true. Good merchants are more likely to pick up the language of an important partner rather than the other way around. So in the case that the lingua franca evolved from trade it's more likely that it evolved from the language of the kingdom with the most gold available. And if we want to get super technical, most kingdoms in the real world didn't have just one language either until very recently. Up until the 19th century, I believe, most people in France couldn't actually speak French, for example. So it would actually be language spoken by the richest members willing to trade in the richest kingdom, which is likely to be the same language as the aristocracy of that land as there's likely prestige to be had in speaking it, but not necessarily.

>>49865638
https://youtu.be/RrTSYhGtaqw

I know enough

>>49865826
They sell CDs like this for 'cowboy' and 'hillbilly' as well, I think.

>>49860958
Plek-Speak
Boco-Doco
Polyglot
Pidgin
Speltan
Linga Comaa
Tartagan

>>49860958
Interlac
Basic
Standard
Slapdash
Aurebesh
Bridge
Chakuni

>>49863188
Koiné.

>>49864742
oodlendroodlew

>>49864742
KHOODLEOODLEOODLEOODLEOODLEOODLEOODLEOODLEOODLEOODLEOODLEOODLEOODLEOODLEN!!!!!

>>49860958
Vulgar.

>>49866973
L-lewd, Anon!

>>49866424
Coin?
>>>/v/355244643

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>>49864742
Cloodleoodleboodlernoodle

>>49864742

oodleloodlexoodlendoodler

>>49860958
Trade

>>49861389
>GRAPPLING, ANON, GRAPPLING!

His job involved wrestling with crocodiles. Those were points well-spent.

>>49864742
Coodlemoodleroodlen

I like it.

>>49860958

I call the common language "lingua" in a lot of my settings. It's just short for lingua franca.

>>49864742
Oodledwoodlerd Roodleoodled

>>49860958
Folktongue.
Tradetongue.
Traveler's Speak
Universal

>>49861986
Esperanto is more popular now than ever.

>>49864742
>Noodleoodlel

>>49864742
Oodleloodlexoodlendoodler

Jive

>>49865775
you cheeky coodlent

>>49868301
Jes, tio estas vera.

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>>49860958
I once played a game where travelers communicated in sign language or, from a distance, by using their arms like a flight coordinator. It was called "Cantos". I think the GM ripped it off from somewhere.

>>49868663
Neat. ASL as a trade language!
Mojosa. ASL tiel lingvo de komerco!

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"Orkish"
It basically consists mostly of grunts punctured by blows to the back of the head for emphasis. Of the "vocabulary" 75% or it is insults or swear words, which people pick up very quickly. As a result even the dumbest species with the most underdeveloped vocal cords can pick it up most of an afternoon while drunk, making it perfect for trade.

Orks, ironically, struggle with its nuances.

>>49860958
Esperanto

>>49860958
I use Sol as a more "universal" name

>>49860958
Such a "common" language would be most actively perpetuated by travelling traders, so something related to that.

Merchantile; silver/gold tongue, name of your god of commerse, roadspeek, etc etc

>>49868301
It's not hard to be more popular than ever when everything before was equal zero.

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>>49860958
Merchant's Pidgin

Low
Creole
Pidgin
Vulgar

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Easiest solution?

Don't.

You don't have to draw attention to it. Even if you point out Elvish or Dwarvish you don't have to give a name to the human speak.

People are only gonna notice it if you point it out.

>>49868663
>I think the GM ripped it off from somewhere.

Probably Plains Indian Sign Language.

>>49864742
Joodleroodle.

>>49864742

My name is like 80 percent vowel

>>49869784
Post it.

>>49864742
oodleroodleck

>>49864742
Oodleloodleg
Surprisingly pronounceable.

Oodledoodlenoodler for an occasional username. Doodle noodler? Hah.

>>49864742
Broodlendoodlen

>>49869811
his name could be like, joey

>>49870431
Yeaah but I'm hoping for something more exotic and lengthy.

>>49864742

Joodlemoodles

Hoodlesll

not sure you can oodle Hall ._.

>>49870487
>._.

>>49860958

>a good alternative name for a language spoken by many races.

That's not how you word that question.
>name for a language spoken by many races
>implying they wouldn't already have a name for it in their context
>i.e elves/humans/dwarves all communicate with Common, with variations;
>Elves, Gravel tongue
>Humans, Trade speak
>Dwarves, Topsider'

What you want is;

"What's a good, universal, alternative name for the common language spoken by all (or most) races in a fantasy (or futuristic) setting?"

in which case;
>English

>>49860958

Human :^^^^)))))

>>49870436
you should just settle for a nice local boy, dear

>>49870514
if I'm gonna be sticking my dick into boy butts, I want it to be a nice chocolatey boy rather than pasty white.

>>49864742
oodlelloodle

>>49860958

Imperial
Take the biggest and/or the most influential state in your setting -ish

>>49864742
Moodlertoodlen Froodlenk Thoodlemoodles voodlen Doodleloodlen

Cancer

>>49860958
Vulgar speech

>>49861325
A pidgin language usually only exists as means of communication between one or two groups, and only if contact is limited. An orc's pidgin common would differ greatly from an elf's pidgin common. If two or more cultures co-exist, they would probably develop a creole.

>>49861341
>very loose grammar rules

What does that even mean?

>>49860958
Trade.

>>49868102
Random encounter vs manta.

>be Irwin
>have all these points in grapple
>try the usual, I guess
>not too many points in swim
>roll for underwater tumble
>fail
>manta has 10ft reach with tail
>gets attack of opportunity
>crits
>fml

>>49862578
>You know, the entire concept of "Common" is stupid.

You know, "Dutch" and "Deutsch" literally mean "popular," or "national." It's perfectly reasonable to call the main language "common."

>English
>language based on Saxon
>named after the Angles
>spoken by Celts

>>49864742
Thoodlemoodles Oodledwoodlerd Shoodlermoodlen

That's surprisingly fun.

>>49862677
Underrated.
Now I imagine all spellbooks are written in XML.

>>49860958
High Elven
Low Gothic
Whatever Whatever

>>49862397
>vicious_mockery.jpg

>>49864742
>tfw name has no vowels
Y doesn't count.

>>49860958

Let's be real, you only used that picture hping someone would post more of that artist's lewd work.

I agree, someone post this artist's lewd work.

>>49871416
is it gunna be bara?

>>49871371
If stands for a vowel sound, it's a vowel, asshole.

>>49871433

Yes. I hope you don't have a problem with that, anon.

>>49860958
>Having something such as common in your setting.

I dislike this so hard, completely unrealistic for regular people to all speak the same language. I do dig it though, if only clerical and noble characters speak it, like medieval latin.

>>49871453
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_Philippines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_language

Also,

>What is English

>>49871451
I do so I'll leave you and your fun alone.

>>49868102
>>49870984
Forgot to take dirty fighting and improvise weapon.

Tok pisin is the best language. Fight me.

>>49871606
In common times yes. Historically it's very uncommon for regular people to speak the lingua franca, however. That was something only the very rich did, and they would rarely speak their native language.

>>49860958
Often-used

>>49872225
>Historically it's very uncommon for regular people to speak the lingua franca, however.

Shit, buddy, do you know how Spanish and French developed?

>>49864742
woodlelloodleoodlem

Da fuck.

>>49872273
Both are the result of dialectal variants of Latin spoken by nobles in specific areas of their countries. French in particular is very different because it developed from the form of Larin spoken by nobles around Paris, far away from Rome. Neither were spoken by a majority of the population in either country until very recently.

>>49872374
>Neither were spoken by a majority of the population in either country until very recently.

Vulgar Latin replaced Gaulish before the end of the first millenium. It is natural to assume that there was a period where bilingualism was not uncommon even for peasants and traders. But we're not talking about peasants, we are talking about adventurers and centuries old elves. It is expected for them to reach a degree of fluency in the lingua franca.

>>49864742
Joodlenoodlekoodle

>>49864742
Joodleck Moodlelloodlen.

>>49864742
Joodlecoodleb Oodleoodlehoodlen Noodleyloodler
Good Luck :)

>>49870932
Nailed it.

>>49864742
Groodlehoodlem moodletthoodlew poodlewoodlers
I like groodle-hoodlem poodlewoodlers a lot

>>49864742
Zooodlechooodleraoodlery

>>49862397
How appropriate. You fight like a cow.

>>49864742
Thoodlemoodles

>>49864742
Thoodlemoodles Stoodlephoodlen Groodleoodlen

>>49860958
Merchant-tongue. A pidgin of dwarven and simplified elven invented by the acient dwarven merchant guilds for ease of learning and to encourage commerce; today It's talked in every market that counts something on the world stage and the kobold banks adopted it for their bureaocracy. If you're an adventurer you'd better be conversant in it or you'll have problems finding jobs far from home.

>>49864742
Levoodle

>>49862677
>#x13

>>49876425
Might take this.

>>49876425
This. RL equivalent is English, but you could make the case for Spanish and French too, since they were also heavily involved in colonialism.

>>49871416
What do you mean?

>>49872044
Can't with those dubs.

>>49864742
Noodlechoodleloodles.

>>49863422
anon, only rabbis speak hebrew anymore.

>>49872669
Yes, adventurers and century old elves would know those languages. But why would a farmer? Why would a lumberjack? A smith? Why would any of them suddenly learn it when they pick up a sword and start battling evil? No regular person knows it anyway.

As I mentioned in my first post, I like it when nobles, clerics and other learned figures speak a common language. But a language spanning all countries of the world, spoken by virtually everyone is just illogical.

>>49861213
Nobody handles banter very well when it strikes true.

Go on, go and meme a true American patriot about his fat ass country, Muriklaping, MAGA and shit like that.

>>49862954
FUCK!

>>49864742
>Soodlephoodleoodle.

I'll take it.

>>49878074

The artist that did OP's pic draws a lot of l-lewd bara stuff.

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>>49860958
Yooo I'm just trying to find some sauce on that pic. I can't remember the artist for the life of me.

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>>49880242
I don't know what you're talking about, Anon. Also, Kirin armor is cute! CUTE!!!
https://myreadingmanga.info/kfutaba-monster-hunter-cg/

>>49860958
Call it Uni.

>>49864742
Oodlelvoodleroodle
Why the fuck am I giggling?

>>49881053
Enjoying yourself.

>>49860958
Make it a setting appropriate language that is spoken commonly across the continent.

Common should not be spoken across the entire world.

>>49883420
That's what I mean. I should have put that in OP.

>>49869575
It is in the millions.

>>49860958
Basic. Standard. Lingua Franca. Plebian.

>>49864742
Joodlecoodleb

Hmm. That's... entirely too pronounceable.

Allspeak.

Alternatively, Alltongue.

Universal.

The Shared Tongue.

>>49883658
That doesn't mean much either when you're counting by the billions.

>>49861338
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7aRR86VfTY
sauce dump