Cygnaran

The most direct descendant of Caspian, Cygnaran is the dominant language of the southern Iron Kingdoms, having been widely adopted by the people of the Midlunds and Caspia itself. It is used throughout the region as a trade language and is the national language of both Cygnar and the Protectorate of Menoth, although the latter refers to the language as Sulese.

This rich language includes a number of words borrowed from the Orgoth tongue that came into use during the Occupation, as well as many commonly used trade terms for alchemy, engineering, and the arcane.

Perhaps unsurprisingly for a language spoken across such a broad geographical area, Cygnaran has numerous dialects. Sulese is easily understood by any Cygnaran speaker, but it has adopted a number of Idrian terms and phrases and includes distinct religious terms.

The river folk and swamp denizens of the northern stretches of the Black River are infamous for their “Swampie” language, a dialect that includes many Morridane terms and is thus difficult for the uninitiated to understand. The Arjun people of Thuria employ a similarly dense dialect that mixes Thurian with Cygnaran.