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=== High-Speech ===
=== High-Speech ===
High-Speech is the language of the few Fiends and Celestials of the world, collectively known as Highlings. It is a language of intense and complex grammar, and has complex words with very specific meaning. It uses a large range of sounds and its words often have syllable counts over five. Because of this, it is often seen as the language of science and progress. During the 2nd Epoch, when technology began to develop, High-Speech was used to determine the scientific names of creatures. It has an alphabetic writing system.
High-Speech is the language of the few Fiends and Celestials of the world, collectively known as Highlings. It is a language of intense and complex grammar, and has complex words with very specific meaning. It uses a large range of sounds and its words often have syllable counts over five. Because of this, it is often seen as the language of science and progress. During the 2nd Epoch, when technology began to develop, High-Speech was used to determine the scientific names of creatures. It has an alphabetic writing system.
=== Ìqáalìe ===
Ìqáalìe is the language of the Ìqáalìe, or Lizardfolk, and is full of glottal sounds, clicks, and is quite a tonal language, carrying meaning based on how a word is said. This allows the language to convey a massive amount of meaning in just a few words. Additionally, because of this, Ìqáalìe is a completely oral language with no writing system, but the Ìqáalìe have a rich bardic, musical, and oral history and tradition.


=== Kalashtari ===
=== Kalashtari ===