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While it is mostly redundant with translators, not everyone will have one (like baseliners). I expect most of our characters have the cliche of being multilingual, but that's the result of being an international, boundless figure. So...one language that is native, languages that they are fluent in, and languages they can speak brokenly (and whether or not they can read/write it or just speak it). Also, whether they learnt it through study or acquired it through necessity
Seriphyn Inhonores
Caldanese/Napaani (native)
Gallentean (fluent, acquired) - Requirement of environment/education
Amarish (broken, illiterate, acquired) - Previously fluent. Requirement of environment; Minmatar-dominated community
Ji (broken, illiterate, acquired) - Necessity during peacekeeping tour to Lirsautton
Intaki (broken, illiterate, acquired) - Requirement of capsuleer duties
Anette
Gallentean (native)
Amarish (fluent, learnt) - Requirement of education
Ji (fluent, acquired) - Requirement of family
Caldanese/Napaani (fluent, illiterate, acquired) - Requirement of family
Xiuying
Ji (native)
Gallentean (fluent, acquired) - Requirement of education/environment
Kiam Arreiz
Caldanese/Napaani (native)
Gallentean (fluent, learnt) - Chosen course during higher education
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Math'ra Hiede
Ammarish - (Native language) Heavy Khanid Throne Worlds accent
Caldanese/Napaani - (Native language) Being Khanid and raised in the Kingdom means you learn Caldari early on
Amarrad - (Competent, Learnt) Learnt at Imperial Navy Academy and as part of Officer training, considered a formal language
Matari Dialects - (broken, mostly-illiterate, acquired) Previously fluent and litterate due to extensive under-cover operations in Matari owned regions
Gallentean - (Broken, illiterate, barely acquired) Requirement of foreign operations as a Capsuleer, least practiced or cared about.
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Lilen en Dama
Gallentean (native)
Intaki (native)
Napanii (passable, college-level study; local Caldari dialects are mostly unintelligible to her)
Everything else (because, well, implants and translator)
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Silas, sans implants can do:
Ammarish - (Native language) Formal Holder Accent
Caldanese/Napaani - (Competent, learnt) Taught as a young adult, as many in the Kingdom eventually are.
Amarrad - (Competent, Learnt) Taught as a child, much like in modern days some learn latin
Matari Dialects - (very little) Deemed completely unworthy of time or effort.
Gallentean - (Competent, learnt) Taught as young adult, as some children of Holders would be as part of any rigorous educational upbringing
I will make a distinction that although Silas understands these languages she rarely -speaks- them, at least publicly, as she generally considers uttering foreign tongues beneath her.
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Hmm. Miz...
Amarrish, fluent, multiple accents. Native.
Khanid, fluent, nobility/Holder accent. Native/Acquired.
Modern Standard Matari, fairly perfect lack of accent. Acquired.
Gripdjur dialect, norse inspired (OoC roots) with heavy Amarrish roots. Acquired, with somewhat poor pronunciation.
Thukker sign language, rudimentary grasp of it, acquired recently.
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Mammal
Gallentean (Native)
Intaki (Learnt, fairly fluent) - 'High' dialect taught in schools, but with words from southern hemisphere dialect thrown in, especially Ganga River Valley region.
Amarrish (Fluent, from schooling in Khanid Kingdom)
Napaani (Just greeting and formalities, not conversational)
Valdezi
Amarrish (Native, fluent)
Gallentean (Learnt, fluent, Intaki accent, from tutor)
Intaki (Learnt, slightly less fluent)
Napaani (Bits and pieces, his Khanid Commoner status meant that he didn't learn it well)
Amarrad (Enough to get by)
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Simca
Gallentean(Native)
Caldanese/Napaani(Native, but rarely used)
Intaki(Just greetings, wants to learn more at some point)
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Sure, I'll bite.
Kyoko Sakoda
Caldari (Kimotoro-area dialect; Native)
Napanii (Native)
Gallentean (with a thick but easily understandable Kimotoro accent; fluent, learned from a young age)
For what it's worth I consider the Caldari to have their own distant dialects of Napanii, much like the Scandinavian languages are closely related to one another and are child languages of Old Norse.
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Simon Coal
Standard Intaki (fluent, learned)
-Glass Dust dialect (fluent, native)
Standard Gallentean (fluent, learned)
Ji (passable, learned)
Standard Mannarish (passable, learned)
Federation Street Caldanese (passable, acquired)
Federation Matari Patois (passable, acquired)
Plus bits and pieces of Amarrish, Napaani and the ability to read some otherwise dead dialects of Intaki. Artist background = Linguist.
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Akrasjel Lanate
Gallentean - (Native language) Learned on his homeworld - Carirgnottin VII
Ammarish - (Native language, Learned) His mother was a Ni-Kunni
Amarrad - (Native language, Learned) His mother was a Ni-Kunni
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Cruci speaks fluent asshole.
But really she was born and raised with 'Modern Standard Matari' as Mizhara put it. Her time in Outer Ring would have led her to pick up at least a little Standard Gallentean while living on ORE stations, but barely. Recently she's begun to learn Napanii while living in Curse which she prefers over Gallentean for its simplicity. She is not terribly cultured.
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Nikita Alterana
Thukker Tribal Language - (fluent, literate, Native, speaks with a nullsec accent) Learned as the primary trade language on her homeworld, and her first language.
Sebiestor Tribal Language - (fluent, literate, Native, speaks with a nullsec accent) Learned as the spoken language on her homeworld, learned concurrently with Thukker.
Modern Standard Matari - (Fluent, literate, learned, Primary language) Learned in the cartel, speaks with a noticeable nullsec/thukker accent, her default language except for when she's angry, when she slips into old thukker matari
Thukker sign language - (fluent, native) Learned along with thukker and sebiestor on her homeworld.
Amarrish - (passable, somewhat literate, acquired) formerly fluent, acquired on her homeworld, as the most widely spoken language there, she interacts with Amarrians enough to keep it mostly decent sounding, though she speaks with a heavy matari accent.
Gallentean - (somewhat passable, mostly illiterate, learned) taught by her mother, mostly fallen out of use, if she's around gallentean speakers enough, she can generally piece together what they're saying, will probably make a fool of herself if she tries to speak in it though.
Caldanese/Napanii - (broken, acquired, illiterate) learned during her career with the cartel special forces.
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You know, I'd like to reply to this thread, but explaining what Mata speaks gives too much away. *wry smile*
If you do a fairly cursory search you'll find that:
[spoiler]
It's on the record that Mata was studying at the Republic School of Dance when she was found to be probably pod-compatible, and that at the time the RSD required functional fluency in both Modern Standard Matari and Gallentean.
Anything more than that you'll have to roleplay for.
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Mithfindel (Intaki):
- Akat region Intaki (illiterate, speaks with some fluency)
- Standard Gallentean (writes and speaks well)
- Standard Caldanese (writes and speaks well)
- Old Deteis/Napanii (basic reading, cannot write, comprehends, basic speaking)
- Amarrish (writes and speaks well)
Mithfindel's Intaki is basically family language. Since the family doesn't live in the Federation, he has an accent and a small vocabulary. He acquired Gallentean in school and it was the language he studied with. He works with modern Caldari, though. In addition, Mithfindel has stayed a few years in the Empire, speaking with an accent (can speak near-perfect Amarrish with cybernetic help).
Axel Kurki (Civire):
- Standard Caldanese (writes and speaks, native)
- Napanii (basic reading and writing, speaks with a heavy Lonetrek accent)
- Standard Gallentean (reads and comprehends, basic writing and speaking)
- Amarrish (illiterate, basic phrases)
Axel's native language is the modern standard Caldari language. He learned some Napanii at school, but is not fluent in "the Deteis language". He also learned Gallentean at school to the degree where he isn't completely lost without a translator on a Gallentean station and can order food at the restaurant without resorting to the pointing fingers at the menu technique etc. During his stays in Amarr he has picked enough to be smiled at on Amarr stations and get beaten on Minmatar stations.
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- Akat region Intaki dialect (Native, fluent) Learned as a primary language during her upbringing
- Ancient Intaki Dialect(s) (Native, fluent [product of rebirth]) Strong memories of previous incarnations, as well as frequent communication with other reborn has maintained a variety of ancient dialects no longer recognisably in use.
- Gallentean (Learned, fluent) mandatory as a part of Federation supported private schooling. Reinforced by her University education.
- Caldanese (Learned, broken [audio parsing implant assisted fluency]) Learned on the fly as a trade language, though Aelisha has intimate and complete knowledge of linguistic structures to a text book standard due to neural imprinting technology (skillbooks), she is somewhat unfamiliar with the pace and accents that she encounters in the State. To this end many of her jump clone are augmented with an audio parsing chip to enable swift interpretation. Her original body remains completely un-augmented for spiritual reasons and thus does not benefit from the implant.
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Hmm, I think the technology complicates this question. I mean, I'm sure our characters can learn to talk any language pretty much at will. I'll answer, trying to ignore that concept...
- Intaki (native, probably a few different dialects: Syndicate and Intaki Prime based, at least)
- Gallente (spoken very well, but with a slight accent)
- Thukker (whatever and however it is these guys talk.. moderately well spoken)
In addition, GoGo's prolly picked up some Caldanese and Amarrian from her environments, so she might understand them a bit, but would not be able to really speak them.
That's it without technological aid, I guess.
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Iurnan speaks Gallente and a smattering of Matari picked up from his mom, an immigrant to the Fed. For everything else, he just uses language translators (http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Language_translators_(Chronicle)).
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Lyn being a scholar/bookworm archetype by definition and formed to be at ease with protocol in any society, she speaks a lot of different things :
- Old Ammatar dialect (passable, broken). She mostly learned it by rarely speaking or listening to the local commoners in her estate when she was young. A kind of language that is very close to amarrish, but still tainted with Minmatar roots being remnants of the nefantar legacy.
- Amarrish (native, literate, fluent). Learned it as a daughter of a Holder.
- Amarrad (native, fluent). Learned it half from her classical education, and half by her own zeal.
- Old latin bits (the basics). From what is left and used around New Eden. Not sure if it is still a fully known langage to New Eden, but we can't deny it is used here and there, especially with amarr symapthizers.
- Khanid (read and written, not really trained to speak it). Learned on her own.
- Napaani (competent, fluent). Learned it on her 2 years journey in the State, not long before her capsuleer training.
- Gallentean and old Gallentean (native, literate, fluent). Learned it on her long time spent in the Federation, plus it was also the tongue commonly used by her SoCT mentor.
- Standard Matari (read, written, speaked).
- North Mikramurka dialect (not yet mastered). Currently trying to learn it on her free time, helped by Ava Starfire.
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Ze'ev speaks Calda* (Tierijev dialect) and passable Achur*, and has picked up a few words of Gallente and Amarr*. (Mostly profanity.) Growing up in a community convinced that the Gallente are just about to attack at all times doesn't really lend itself to cosmopolitanism.
* No matter what I put here, somebody will think it's wrong, so just insert whichever letters or non-letters you think are the proper ones.
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Horatius
- Amarish (native, literate, multiple dialects) Learned growing up, technically with a High Parudite/Chavenine accent, but he normally speaks Throne Amarish (not that there's a notable different to outsiders). He knows enough of the language to imitate most major dialects.
- Amarrad (native, literate, fluent) Studied as part of his noble upbringing, and again at the Imperial Academy. Forgot large parts due to not using it (and clone transfer muddling), but has made an effort to study again.
- Matari (basic phrases) Picked up from various "cultural exchanges"
- Caldari (basic phrases)
Orphan World
- Amarish (native, literate, fluent) Learned during his early life in the Mandate, refreshed knowledge during SoCT education.
- Amarrad (native, basic phrases) As above, mainly from curiosity and stealing dusty old books to teach himself.
- Tanoo Cant (native, fluent) Street speak
- Sebiestor Matari (literate, fluent) Learned after leaving the Mandate to live in the Republic
- Matari (literate, fluent) As above
- Gallente (literate, fluent) Studied at the SoCT
- Caldari (literate, fluent) Studied at the SoCT
- Jove (basic phrases)
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Scagga as I played him:
- Amarrish (Acquired, fluent) - Main language with Amarrians
- Old Ammatar dialect (Acquired, fluent) - Main language (I view it as a dialect of Amarrish with Matari sprinklings as Lyn put it).
- Standard Minmatar Dialect (forgotten) - Deliberately 'forgot' his previous proficency and 'remembers' it when it comes in handy. Note: Minmatar dialect of Amarrish, not Minmatar tribal language.
- Amarrad (feigned fluency) Barely literate, but could give the impression that he was fluent.
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I'd see Deadie as having as being fluent in the 'common' languages of the four major empires. She'd probably need a translator for certain dialects if they weren't from her Home Nation (Federation).
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Morwen:
- Gallentean (Native language, multiple dialects) - Learned as a primary language during her childhood.
- Intaki (Native language, multiple dialects) - Learned as a primary language during her childhood.
- Khanid (Near fluency, acquired) - Learned after moving her primary planetside residence to Khanid Prime, with a Holder and/or Throne Worlds accent.
- Amarish (Near fluency, acquired) - Same as the Khanid language.
- Caldanese/Napanii (Broken, illiterate, acquired) - Mostly self-taught, personal interest. Sometimes practices in the Heiian channel.
- Modern Standard Matari (Broken, illiterate, acquired) - Enough to hold a short conversation with vendors at the Rens Bazaar or follow the gist of a more complex conversation. Beyond that, it's hit or miss.
- Amarrian Sign Language (Mostly passable, recently acquired) - Learned at the same time as Khanid and Amarrish in order to communicate with a mute slave.
As a side note, a careful and discerning ear will note that Morwen's voice has a blend of light Luminaire (Caille, specifically) and Intaki accents regardless of the language she is speaking.
Naoko:
- Caldanese/Napanii (Native, primarily Okomon-area dialect) - Learned as a primary language during her childhood.
- Achuran (Native) - Learned as a primary language during her childhood; rarely used in public, but frequently used with family.
- Gallentean (Fluent, acquired) - More or less required for working in the Federation.
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Raxip:
Amarrish (Native Language, one whacky dialect only) from the planet he was born on, somewhere in the outskirts of the empire, he doesn't know where
Wierd Matari slave creole (Native Language) Same as above
Modern Standard Matari (Near fluency, aquired) learned after being reclaimed
Caldanese (Passable, wierd achuran accent) learned from Lt Graham
Lt Graham:
Caldanese (Native language, multiple dialects) when he's relaxed, a hint of a Civire dialect accent from Shihuken
Pretty Much Everything Else (Fluency, no accent, multiple dialects) Graham is a ridiculous polyglot, and was trained to immitate accents for intelligence work
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Raxip:
Amarrish (Native Language, one whacky dialect only) from the planet he was born on, somewhere in the outskirts of the empire, he doesn't know where
Wierd Matari slave creole (Native Language) Same as above
Modern Standard Matari (Near fluency, aquired) learned after being reclaimed
Caldanese (Passable, wierd achuran accent) learned from Lt Graham
Lt Graham:
Caldanese (Native language, multiple dialects) when he's relaxed, a hint of a Civire dialect accent from Shihuken
Pretty Much Everything Else (Fluency, no accent, multiple dialects) Graham is a ridiculous polyglot, and was trained to immitate accents for intelligence work
All of Raxip's characters are also fluent in "tool-ese"
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Saana Nupuunen:
- Standard Caldari (native)
- Napanii (good, Lonetrek accent, learnt at school)
- Gallentean (poor, learnt in Ishukone Watch, knows at least curse words and "Arretez! Haut les mains!")
Taru Haakinen:
- Standard Caldari (native)
- Napanii (poor, literate and speaks, but has a bad vocabulary beyond what cannot be guessed based on modern language)
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Without translators/chips in the head of course:
Saikoyu:
Amarrish (native, fluent)
Modern Standard (Trade?) Matari (learned, poor grasp) Learned to work in Matari space, but still mostly uses translators.
Gallentean (learned, moderate grasp) Learned during school while rooming with exchange student from Federation.
Saikoyu always speaks with an mid to upper class accent from Amarr Prime.
A'kua:
Amarrish (native, fluent) Born and raised in Amarrian Empire
Modern Standard Matari (learned, fluent) Learned during capsuler training
Modern Brutor (learned, fair speaker) This is the most recent language she has taken up and does not practice it often.
Has an Amarrian accent common among slaves from Hedion, but usually tries to suppress it.
Chantal D'len:
Gellentean (native, fluent)
Amarrish (learned, fair speaker) Learned during stay as exchange student in Amarrian Empire.
Modern Standard Matari (learned, fair speaker) Taken up for trading purposes.
Smattering of numerous other languages, mostly consisting of curse words and dirty language. She's a bit of a collector of such things.
Does not speak with any accent most of the time, pointing to either voice training or hailing from a region in the Federation that does not have any accent to speak of. Can fake bad accents, and sometimes does so for comedic effect.
Sako Yatori:
Khanid (native, fluent)
Amarrish (learned, fluent)
Yatori Battle Code (native, fluent) A mix of almost random words and sounds passed down in her family for private communication on or off the battlefield. Given the modern day use of private comm channels, theis is rather useless, but she keeps it sharp reguardless. Also can be spoken with hand signals.
Heavy Khanid Prime accent, very noticable.
Speaking of accents, any of the other Khanids players here have an idea for what Khanid might sound like?
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And now is the time for some more of my self-indulgent twaddle.
Celeste:
- Miesian Gallente (native, fluent and literate, learned at home)
- Miesian Caldari (native, fluent and literate, learned at home)
- Miesian (literate, learned in primary school)
Mies was relatively isolated for quite a long time after its first settlement, thanks to its colonists' discovering (http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Populous_Temperate_Worlds_in_the_Gallente_Federation#Crux)why the archeo-Caldari and archeo-Gallente settlers may have passed up a system that had more optimal living conditions than Luminaire. During that time, the survivors developed distinct variants of Gallente and Caldari (only offworlders call 'Caldari' 'Caldanese' on Lutesse). Miesian Gallente shares many structural elements and words in common with Late Modern Garouni, the last 'pure' iteration of that Gallente Prime planetary language: while speakers of Post-Modern Garouni can easily understand Miesian Gallente speakers, they'd most likely find Miesian accents and word choice quaint, if not outright archaic. Speakers of Standard Gallentean do not generally fare as well. That Miesian Gallente speakers tend to use Miesian Caldari words when they seem more appropriate to what they're trying to say doesn't help matters.
Accent wise, Miesian Caldari is not very different from the Civire ones that took hold in parts of The Citadel. Speakers of Standard Caldanese generally do not have a hard time understanding Miesian Caldari speakers, assuming they can wrap their minds around the dialect's structural differences. Miesian Caldari acquired noun-gender associations from their Garouni Gallente co-settlers, and over time, developed a tendency to insert an 'l' sound into double-vowel constructs. (e.g. Caldanese neuter tsuun "moon" is Miesian Caldari feminine bele tsuun, which is pronounced "beh-le tsul-un". Miesian Gallente would usually say "belle luna" comme un Garouni peu ancien.)
The Miesian language is an iconographic writing system that was constructed by the Mivo Essére corporation to facilitate communication between its Gallentean and Caldari colonists. It helped save lives during the bleak early years after first landfall, and thanks to that, has been a required class for every Miesian schoolchild ever since -- even if Federation regulations have forced it out of exclusive use on public signs, storefronts and food products.
- Old Garouni (temple language, functional and functionally literate, learned at home)
- Napanii (functional and functionally literate, learned in primary school)
- Callanais (functional, acquired in adult life via exposure and inference from native dialects)
Callenais is a collective name for a number of Gallente-Caldari creoles, patois and mishmashes spoken in Federation and State border areas and some urban zones with a heavy mix of both peoples.
- Standard Gallentean (fluent and literate, learned in primary school)
- Standard Caldanese (fluent and literate, learned in primary school)
Celeste tends to sounds more 'prissy' (to quote Seriphyn) Villoreschi than Miesian, thanks to her having worked in Villore for decades. Fatigue and/or sufficient quantities of alcohol tend to bring out her Miesian accent. I like to think of it as her sounding somewhat Cajun. I don't know what she sounds like when she speaks Caldanese. Possibly Citadel-ish, maybe with a thread of Lonetrek since she spent so much time there (and recruited heavily from the area when she left). Or maybe she also sounds somewhat Cajun, especially after drinking. No one's ever complained, so I presume she's generally understandable. At least no one's ever complained about understanding the individual words she's used, even if they can't always make sense of what she's saying.
- Court Amarrish (fluent and functionally literate, learned in secondary school)
- Kadorin Amarrish (functional and functionally literate, acquired in adult life via exposure and inference from Amarrish language studies)
Celeste's hopefully late husband spoke fluent Khanid Amarrish ... but never in her presence. She's never learned the dialect.
- Achur (functionally literate. Can speak it but won't, since she knows her accent is terrible, even with translator aid. Learned in university.)
- "Engineering" Sebiestor (functionally literate: engineering and scientific terms only. Learned in university.)
Celeste had the option to take Intaki instead of Achur in college. She elected the latter. She really doesn't want to know what Intaki are saying behind her back.
Sabette spent the first five or so years of her life on Mies Prime, where she was exposed to the Miesian variants of Gallente and Caldari, as well as Old Garouni. She did not go to primary school on Mies, so she did not study Miesian. She can grasp most flavors of Callanais, but finds it difficult to express complex sentences: she believes her rigorous schooling in Standard Gallentean and Standard Caldanese impedes that and her understanding of her native dialects, since she's thinking of what ought to be rather than what works. Her accent tends toward the Villoreschi. She's had to work hard to retain her Miesian accent, which she views as superior, rather than an embarrassment.
Like Celeste, Sabette took Court Amarrish in secondary school. Quite unlike Celeste, she'd had a head start on the language, thanks to her father: Alons Tisserand communicated privately with his daughters almost exclusively in spoken Khanid Amarrish. Sabette also took Intaki in secondary school, mostly to annoy her mother. She learned Modern Standard Matari as part of her officer training in the regular Federation Navy Academy program. This schooling and intense exposure (she hid out in a Matari quarter of Arcurio for nearly two years) helped her acquire functional competency in Federation Matari Patois.
Vieve was born and reared, with the exception of about a year of her childhood, in Villore. She spoke late, and strangely, favoring a random sing-song mix of her father's Khanid Amarrish and the Old Garouni from her mother's fairy tale books to anything resembling Gallentean. After exhaustive efforts (and her father's surreptitiously treating her with illicit neurochemicals), she stopped fixating on her made up language and engaged with real ones, making up for lost time by rapidly learning Standard Gallentean, Caldanese and Court Amarrish to fluency/full literacy levels by the time she entered secondary school. Like her big sister Sabette, she also studied Intaki. Unlike Sabette, she learned no Matari languages. She can read Achur and some Jin-Mei dialects, but does not speak them.
Some may find it suspicious that Vieve's Gallentean accent is getting even more Villoreschi as time goes by, though she no longer lives in Villore. She's also begun to eschew contractions in spoken Gallentean, something she does not do in Caldanese. By contrast, her Caldanese accent has improved (or degraded, depending upon one's point of view): if she chooses to, she can sound just like a mechanic's wife from Juunigaishi, or a Lonetrek Lai Dai public relations specialist in the tenth year of her posting to a Carthum facility in Madirmilire. Since many Amarr tend to look bemused when she speaks, I can only imagine what her Court Amarr sounds like. It pointedly does not sound like she's a Ni-Kunni, even if she can pass for one in the right clothing.
Maris' schooling (except for a few years when she was a young teenager) was all done in self-directed virtual classrooms, so her language skills aren't as extensive as the terrible trio's. She is fluently conversant and competently literate in Gallentean, with no clear regional accent. She also speaks fluent Standard Caldanese, with a solid Border Zone accent, but can barely read and write it without a translation aid (though she's getting better). She's picked up smatterings of everything from shopkeeper Vherkie to Court Amarrish: essentially enough to guarantee she can do business just about everywhere she goes.
I'm not going to list the languages the NPC alts speak, 'cause that's just silly.
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Hmmmm...
- Amarrish (native, literate, fluent) Learned in childhood, still retains a noticable Tash-Murkonite influence. If there's such a thing as a "commoner accent", I'm tentatively going to say he has one as well.
- Khanid (acquired, near-literate, near-fluent) Learned more recently, interestingly speaks this with a higher-class accent.
- Modern Standard Matari (acquired, semi-fluent/literate) Been learning this since he became interested in outreach; he still has a heavy Amarrian accent which would be noticable to any native speaker of MSM.
- Some mild Brutor dialects (acquired, broken, illiterate) Same as the above, really, albeit with less skill. Capable of stringing a few sentences together, but it's really more bits and pieces.
He also knows a handful of Gallentean, Caldari/Napanii, Ni-Kunni, and Intaki, though it's mostly single words or phrases, not any sense of actual knowledge of the language.
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Just Caldari. Istvaan is reliant on translators, and doesn't show any hint of nationality by sticking foreign words into his diction. As long as everyone understands, we're good.
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Vicky is fluent in Amarrian, whatever accent remains from her previous life indicates that she was raised on Athra. If Ni-Kunni exists as a language (I'm not sure if it still would given the degree of assimilation), she's speak that as well. She understands a little Khanid but never had much use for the language.
Other than that, she knows how to tell you to politely go to hell in just about every major language, and has picked up some rudimentary functional, tactical, and profane Matari after being around the other pilots of Ushra'Khan for several months.
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Antimatter, Void, Null, Scorch, Multifrequency, EMP, Phased Plasma, Hail, Barrage, Fusion.
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Antimatter, Void, Null, Scorch, Multifrequency, EMP, Phased Plasma, Hail, Barrage, Fusion.
Some more fluently than others?
(Also "Without implants?")
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Antimatter, Void, Null, Scorch, Multifrequency, EMP, Phased Plasma, Hail, Barrage, Fusion.
Some more fluently than others?
(Also "Without implants?")
I'm a bit sad "Caldari Navy Terror" isn't on that list.
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Antimatter, Void, Null, Scorch, Multifrequency, EMP, Phased Plasma, Hail, Barrage, Fusion.
Some more fluently than others?
(Also "Without implants?")
I'm a bit sad "Caldari Navy Terror" isn't on that list.
Personally, I'm sad "Medium Energy Neutralizer II" isn't on that list. Show your Curse Pride, man!
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Sebiestor, nothern Mikramurka dialect (Native, limited literacy)
Standard Matari (Conversational, limited literacy)
Amarrian, Mandate dialect (Conversational, no literacy)
Reading and writing not real high on list of priorities to Avlynka's Clan.
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Reading and writing not real high on list of priorities to Avlynka's Clan.
Interesting. I've explicitly made it part of Atamahara's policy that you don't get to pick up a gun until you can read and write, and you don't get to go to war until you know the clan's history and culture.
"It does you no good to win the war if you've forgotten who you are."
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Nachshon:
Caldanese (native language)
Matari (fluent, albeit with a Caldari accent)
Violence (fluent, primarily in missile dialects)
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It's fairly public knowledge, Merahl makes no effort to hide it:
Fluent
- Modern Matari -- Merahl's stationside lowsec accent is one some people find difficult to follow, so he makes an effort to speak precisely; the result is that he sometimes comes across as stuffy and "proper".
- Caldari and Napanii -- learned from his father, though again his accent is rough and potentially embarrassing.
Moderate:
- A random handful of Matari dialects and trader patois -- learned from exposure as a child and later in the military.
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Iurnan speaks Gallente and a smattering of Matari picked up from his mom, an immigrant to the Fed. For everything else, he just uses language translators (http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Language_translators_(Chronicle)).
Hate to be that guy, but Language translators are mostly confined to the Pod, according to PF. Though apparently cyber implanted translators are on a "steady increase"
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N'maro enjoys getting out the pod to have a walk around he various stations and marketplaces of New Eden, and his spoken languages reflect this.
- Basic Repubic standard Matari
- Vherokior dialect (native), as well as high competence in all Matari tribal dialects, save Nefantar and Starkmanir.
- Khanid (aquired, conversational, little written skill)
- Amarrish (mostly Ni-Kunni trader dialects, aquired, some written skill)
- Gallentian (aquired, relatively fluent, considerable written skill)
- Intaki (fractured, conversational, almost no written skill)
- Jin-Mei (almost none, can order a coffee or ask for the bathroom, thats about it)
- Caldari Basic (aquired, fractured, conversational, little written skill)
- Napaani (learned, relatively fluent, some written skill)
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Kikia Truzhari
Gallentean (native)
Modern Standard Matari (fluent, literate, learned) - Requirement of environment/education
Sebiestor Tribal Language (broken, illiterate, acquired) - Learned/learning as she interacts with members of her tribe.
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Richard Wensbane
Caldanese/Napaani - (Native language)
Ammarish - (Fluent, learnt) - A necessity during his days working for the Kor-Azor family.
Gallentean - (Broken, mostly-illiterate, acquired) - Bits and pieces picked up over the years.