Goblin
Goblin, or sometimes Goblish is a language spoken by the fairly broad group known as "Goblins" and by some other creatures that share close proximity and habitation with them. Speakers include the core Goblin races: Goblin, Hobgoblin and Bugbear, but also commonly by their slaves and especially by their sentient or semi-sentient livestock. Worgs almost all speak Goblin, and Frost-Wolves, White-Chitterers and Fellcrows occasionally pick the language up.
Writing System
Goblin borrows its written language from the Dwarvish/Giant/Primordial rune script, with a few additional quick hand symbols. In some parts of the world a pictographic script is used instead.
Geographical Distribution
Like Goblin themselves, the language is spread throughout the world, and there is very little linguistic drift between those separated by distance, in part due to the religious enforcement by the church of Conqueror God.
Phonology
Goblin is oftend described as a guttural with heavy emphasis on consonants. Stress is most often placed on the beginning of the words, and can be quite intense.
Morphology
Goblin is a highly morphological language, with a limited lexicon of individual words but an extensive collection of suffixes and prefixes, and morphemes are freely created to adapt words that are found lacking.
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