> I would say that I use french to represent all Gloranthan
> languages in most of my french players games ;-).
Well, yes....
> Probably that you could use different real languages for different
> Gloranthan languages but it would bring the problem that
> every player would have to learn the languages used.
No, the whole point is that they *don't* know the languages involved. The PCs don't understand New Pelorian, but can recognise it - and the same goes for Latin. They probably don't understand Welsh, but can recognise it - Stormtongue. One reason I wouldn't use French is that most people probably *would* understand at least some, it being the standard second language taught in schools. And it doesn't, for me, have the same "historical" overtones. Unless of course I used Norman French, but it's hard to find a dictionary, and my own vocabulary is pretty specialised (limited to reading recipes, more or less). Middle English, Old English, and Old Norse, in descending order of comprehensibility, would probably be my next choices. I'd like to use Greek for Dara Happans and related cultures, but again my own linguistical limitations let me down.
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