I would replace Pelorian with New Pelorian. I believe that is the official language of the empire.
> in roughly that order of popularity
I might swap Trade with Sartarite and Praxian with Old Pavic. Old Pavic should almost certainly be at the bottom of the list since nomads are usually in and around Pavis, and Old Pavic is a dead language. Since Tradetalk is the language of Issaries, it is the language of trade and would probably be the second language learned by most Orlanthi.
> I would guess the old families in the Rubble (Real City etc) speak Old
> Pavic, what do you think?
Pavic is the derived form of Old Pavic after 500 years of semantic drift and is the language of the city natives. Only a scholar of the city can understand Old Pavic, but several of these would be nobles.
> Can anyone tell me the difference between Pavic and Old Pavic, in terms
of
> who speaks which, and the rules abstraction for understanding one
another?
Old Pavic is the language of the city during it's glory days. It is EWF Sartarite with maybe 50 to 100 years of semantic drift. Over the next 500 years it lost most draconic references and added nomad words and some solar influence from Sun County to become Pavic.
I run the conversion at 1/2. A trained reader of Pavic should be able to read most of the Old Pavic scrolls, but spellings will be different and many of the lost words could be untranslatable without further study.
> and where does Auld Wyrmish come in?
Good question. In RQ1 & 2 it was the human learnable form of the Dragonnewt and Wyrm language(s). By RQ3 Greg had decided that the language could not be written since most of it was like a sign language with sounds most humans couldn't make, so Auld Wyrmish became a spoken only language. The Orlanthi of EWF had to have an operation to split the brain and tongue, and then had to learn to dance before they could really learn Wyrmish (KoS).
Several of the old modules list scrolls in Auld Wormish, but it is probably better to change them to EWF Sartarite instead. Bob
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