Gloranthans, in general, are not literate. I also believe that the vast bulk of the population are not particularly mobile (i.e. they stay close to where they were born). In these circumstances, there will be widely varying pronunciations of names or even wildly different names for the same thing. And spellings will be worse - think of the wide variations of spelling of words in the early days of written vernacular (assumption: most writing uses alphabets rather than ideographs).
I expect, for example, in Sartar that most rural clans will speak with recognisably (to their neighbours anyway) different accents and "everyone" will be able to tell the accents of the groups of clans/tribes clustered around the cities of Sartar.
regards,
Charles
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