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Empirian
Empirian, also called Common, is the daily language of The Empire, and most of its people speak it.12
It stands apart from the Lingua Imperium, or High Common, the old tongue of the Empire. Knowing the Lingua Imperium is a privilege that the highborn usually keep for themselves.12
The phonetics of Badgertongue, the language of the badgerfolk, are similar to those of Empirian, and that language as a whole resembles a mixture of Empirian and Elvish.3
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