Languages of the Known Worlds

Languages that survived the Cataclysm are descendants of five Earthly languages. In order of prevalence, these are English, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, and Russian. A few small pockets of languages descended from Cantonese, German, Romance dialects, Persian, and Urdu, can also be found. All of these languages are significantly different than their Earthly predecessors.

Hellish
The language of Saint Vengeance and the Hellic expansion. Hellish is part of the English family, and uses the roman alphabet. (Ed. note: because Lezarouth wrote in Hellish, a glossary of some untranslatable words has been added to this site.)

vowel shift
Hellish underwent a vowel shift, in much the same way that the vowels of English shifted from Anglo-Saxon to Earthling English, and in the same direction. The following chart shows the major changes: