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[Napoleon1853]

Like does everybody speak English or whatever language you get the game in? I mean like do the Dwarfs have their own language? Do the Elves? Do some Human groups have a different language? 

[SwankyMcSwish]

In the game, they will all speak the language chosen by the player or regionally (unless you count the grunts and roars of Darkspawn as a different language).



Whether they possess different languages lore-wise, I am unsure, but am curious to know. Further, can Darkspawn actually talk? What about dragons and demons?



Actually, are Darkspawn even sentient?

[Napoleon1853]

Hopefully someone knows.

[caspertjuhh]

I think they all speak the samy language.

[GhoXen]

I know that elves have their language, a long time ago. One of the Dalish Elves' goals is to relearn their ancient and forgotten tongue.

[Arlana Tabris]

The Dalish Elves and Dwarves use some words in their own languages.

http://www.dragonage...ngle/1255568100

I found a quote on it:
Mr Gaider's words:
"We had a linguist doing some work on elven and dwarven early on, but we didn't end up using it all. I think our initial intention was to have elves and dwarves speaking their own languages all the time -- but the reality was that a made-up language sounds like gibberish and is annoying to listen to in large chunks. It is also awfully difficult to get voice actors to properly speak.

So, instead, we've switched to languages being used in small chunks, either in place of common words ("hello", "friend", "thank you", etc) or phrases that are used in context.

As for the origin of the words themselves, they're not tied to any particular existing language. For elven, there is an avoidance of certain hard sounds such as "k" and "t" and a preference for softer sounds such as "l" and "th". You end up with something that sounds vaguely Tolkien-ish, and no doubt that's probably because it's a bit embedded in our consciousness that this is what elven "sounds like". Regardless, any similarities would be coincidental."

Modifié par Arlana Tabris, 19 octobre 2009 - 08:49 .

[Lucy Glitter]

Darkspawn emissaries can communicate in english. Otherwise they have a sort of hive mind.

[Napoleon1853]

Arlana Tabris wrote...

The Dalish Elves and Dwarves use some words in their own languages.

http://www.dragonage...ngle/1255568100

I found a quote on it:
Mr Gaider's words:
"We had a linguist doing some work on elven and dwarven early on, but we didn't end up using it all. I think our initial intention was to have elves and dwarves speaking their own languages all the time -- but the reality was that a made-up language sounds like gibberish and is annoying to listen to in large chunks. It is also awfully difficult to get voice actors to properly speak.

So, instead, we've switched to languages being used in small chunks, either in place of common words ("hello", "friend", "thank you", etc) or phrases that are used in context.

As for the origin of the words themselves, they're not tied to any particular existing language. For elven, there is an avoidance of certain hard sounds such as "k" and "t" and a preference for softer sounds such as "l" and "th". You end up with something that sounds vaguely Tolkien-ish, and no doubt that's probably because it's a bit embedded in our consciousness that this is what elven "sounds like". Regardless, any similarities would be coincidental."

When they refer to an already existing Dwarven and Elven langauge...is there some offical fantasy Elve and offical fantasy Dwarve language or something?

[Lord Thing]

The linguist David talks about in Arlana's quote posted an interesting topic a long time ago if anyone's interested, it starts out kind of annoying, but it gets really good.
Click Here

It's too bad they weren't able to fully utilise the languages in the game

Edit: @Napoleon, yeah, they had a linguist invent multiple languages for them, but in the end they weren't able to implement them in the way they were originally intended

Modifié par Lord Thing, 19 octobre 2009 - 09:13 .