Human

Geographical Distribution

Wherever humans came from, their language was common enough that every person who embarked spoke it and no other. It may not have been the only language spoken in that world, but for not one of the humans who left to speak even a single word of another, it was likely extremely dominant. By the time the descendants of those humans reached the shores of Khthon they had spent generations sailing the Astral Sea; their "language" was a dialect of a dialect, and the three arks had drifted apart considerably. The captains and highest ranking officers maintained the knowledge of their original language in order to consult the earliest captains' logs, and kept up an ongoing project of writing translation guides and learning materials should the worst come to pass and anew captain need be selected from outside the senior staff. For the average human, however, their original language was nearly unrecognizable even before they made landfall. They were positively eager to accept the trader talk used in the new world they found themselves in, and though they certainly took several words and turns of phrase with them, the most commonly spoken language by humans was Common in only one generation. After two had passed only scholars, priests, and the staunchest traditionalists could even recognize their original language. It has been many generations since then, and the Human language can essentially be considered dead. There are still ruins, and even ancient landmarks in inhabited cities which bear inscriptions, the most avid language scholars could translate to or from it if given enough time, and some phrases are still repeated in the very oldest temple rituals, but there now exists only one native speaker, a single individual for whom it is their primary language. The Philosopher King still speaks it simply by virtue of being human and having lived for so long, but it has likely been centuries at least since he last spoke it aloud.