The Languages

Hundreds if not thousands of languages are spoken in the Lost Lands. At one point in time, most of the human population of the world lived in small, relatively isolated tribes or clans, each of which developed its own tongue (or divergent dialects of regional languages). Over thousands of years, each of these different languages diverged, merged, and influenced each other, in a complex tapestry that can, even to experts, be bewildering.

That being said, certain languages have had outsized influence on the modes of speech in the world. A number of current languages either are descended from or were heavily influenced by the High Boros spoken by the Hyperborean Empire. Even though now separated by thousands of miles, many folk who claim Hundaei ancestry speak a language clearly descended from Kirkut, including the Shattered Folk, the Rheman Loreclans, the tribes of the Sea of Grass, and even the Huun of Libynos. And throughout Libynos, the Semuric tongue of the ancient Assurian Empire has spread far and wide to form the basis for scores of languages now in use throughout that continent.

Languages	Original Speakers	Used Today By
Anari	Anari	Anari
Erskin	Eskaelosi	Erskaelosi
Gasquen	Foere tribes	Foere nobility, Ramithi
Helvaenic	Heldring	Heldring
High Boros	Hyperboreans	None
Khemitian	Khemit	Khemit, traders in Libynos
Kirkut	Hundaei (varied dialects)	Rhemans, Shattered Folk, tribes of Sea of Grass, Huun
Kra	Arkaji	Arkaji (Riverfolk)
Meeruwhan	Jaata	Jaata, merchants in northern Libynos
Nørsk	Northlanders	Northlanders, others in the Northlands
Ogham	Folk of Ynys Cymragh	Daanites
Semuric	Assurian Empire	Many throughout Libynos
Westerling / Common	Varied	Many throughout Akados
Xha’en	Plains of Xha tribes	Xha’en, many in western Akados