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Classical Tongue

247 statements
47 feature instances
13 referencing feature instances

Classical Tongue	type	FeatureClass
Classical Tongue	label	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue	page	ClassicalTongue
Classical Tongue	comment	A language that isn't typically known or used by the common man. It may be dead and mostly forgotten, or only spoken by educated elites such as nobility, scholars, clergy, or mages. A few words from it might be used to denote something special, or it is used for something or someone's name, or someone who knows it might drop a phrase here and there in an attempt to sound clever, but don't expect the common masses to use it (anymore). It's often an Expy of Latin, if it isn't Latin itself. The language may also be some kind of holy language spoken by those in a religious order, which makes the comparison to Latin all the more obvious. In these instances, see Sacred Language. If forgotten, can become a Lost Language. In some cases, a classical language came either from or to a Noble Tongue. A Language of Truth or Language of Magic often doubles as one. Compare Smart People Know Latin. Contrast Common Tongue. See also Primordial Tongue, for a proto-language from which all the other tongues of the world descend. See also: classical language on The Other Wiki.
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Classical Tongue	isPartOf	DBTropes
Classical Tongue / int_1c4104e	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_1c4104e	comment	BIONICLE: Mask of Light: The writing on Great Kanohi is considered ancient enough that only Turaga can read it, compared to other signs that Takua can read just fine.
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Classical Tongue / int_2171d046	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_2171d046	comment	Let Us Be Your Poison: Many Faunus don't speak the Common Tongue of New Kingspeak. They only speak their own tongue, Zhoviyak.
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Classical Tongue / int_2192aeb3	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: The Ancient Language in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn is used as a spellcasting language in most contemporary settings and is the primary language for the Heron tribe. Most of what Princess Leanne says is in this language. In fact, it's simply English in an invented script; translations can be found here and here.
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Classical Tongue / int_226469fe	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_226469fe	comment	Ghoul: The ghoul starts mumbling a Madness Mantra in Aramaic at one point.
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Ghoul	hasFeature	Classical Tongue / int_226469fe
Classical Tongue / int_2268de37	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_2268de37	comment	Grimm: Downplayed when Nick needs a text translated that is written in a medieval dialect of German. Monroe explains that the dialect has not been used in a long time but he can still translate it because it is close enough to modern German. Played straighter with the cloth covering the Templar treasure, which has writing in Aramaic and Latin. Rosalee can translate some of the Latin, but says it's archaic Latin, not Classical Latin (which, ironically given the trope name, would be easier to translate).
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Classical Tongue / int_2ef7cb74	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_2ef7cb74	comment	Lyrical Nanoha: Ancient Belkan (which is suspiciously similar to modern German) is spoken only by a few old-fashioned Knights and their Devices.
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Classical Tongue / int_3501cc23	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_3501cc23	comment	Gentleman Bastard has Throne Therin, the courtly language of the defunct Therin Empire. Amusingly, Word of God states that the Therin nobility invoked this, creating a "tarted-up" version of common Therin to set them apart from the common folk and flaunt their erudition.
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Classical Tongue / int_468bebb0	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Latatian, the language of the ancient Ankh-Morporkian Empire. It's used by wizards, lawyers, and doctors, all of whom reckon that their professions are greatly enhanced if ordinary folk don't understand a word they're saying. In the same way as modern Morporkian just happens to be identical to 20th century English, Latatian bears a remarkable resemblance to Canis Latinicus. There is also Classical Ephebian.
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Classical Tongue / int_46a4b34d	comment	The Elenium: During the Archprelate's funeral, there's a reference to the prayers and chants being in an archaic form of the Elene language that hardly anyone present understands.
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Classical Tongue / int_531b8f34	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_531b8f34	comment	Scrapped Princess: It turns out that the old language is English. For example, the name of their continent, "Dustvin", is a corruption of "Dustbin".
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Classical Tongue / int_56e10d85	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_56e10d85	comment	Tolkien's Legendarium: J. R. R. Tolkien, a linguist by trade, devised several for his works: Westron, the Common Speech of western Middle-earth during the time of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, is derived from AdÃ»naic, the language of the NÃºmenÃ³reans who had already ruled much of Middle-earth before even before they lost their island homeland to catastrophe and were forced to reestablish themselves on Middle-earth as the kingdoms of Arnor and Gondor. Quenya serves in the same capacity for the Elves, being the language spoken by the Elves who (at least momentarily) lived with the Valar in the Undying Lands. The Elves of the Third Age mostly use it for poetry and formal literature, and speak a distinct tongue among themselves. Khuzdul (Dwarvish) is a static, ceremonial language, and Dwarves rarely speak their own tongue to outsiders outside of their Battle Cry (and presumably the hearers are expected to soon be dead). When talking to outsiders and sometimes even among themselves, they use Common Speech. If an outsider knows Khuzdul, that is a sure sign that they are considered to be a very honored friend and possibly that they have Gone Native.
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Classical Tongue / int_5cc59ec7	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_5cc59ec7	comment	In Godbound, there are Ancient Akeh, Old Din and Classical Ren. These are the languages of the three Former Empire-era ethnicities of Arcem. Since the Shattering, the various nations' languages have diverged into clusters of mutually-unintelligible languages. Classical Ren is still the court language of Dulimbai (though the peasants primarily speak Modern Ren), while Ancient Akeh and Old Din are purely scholarly and religious languages.
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Classical Tongue / int_5e150650	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted has Old Realm, as opposed to modern High Realm and Low Realm. It's still spoken by most spirits and by scholars, enough to be used as one of the setting's three Common Tongues.
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Classical Tongue / int_65608411	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_65608411	comment	Time Enough for Love: In the setting, which takes place in the 43rd century, more or less, English is a dead language, which Lazarus Long insists on speaking when dealing with the Howards.
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Classical Tongue / int_66fd2e30	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_66fd2e30	comment	Wax and Wayne: High Imperial is the language once spoken by Spook the Lord Mistborn, founder of the new civilization, and is now only used in old historical documents and occasional government ceremonies. To readers, it's Spook's bizarre street slang from the Original Trilogy.
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Classical Tongue / int_6790956f	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_6790956f	comment	Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: Old Peculiar. Some peculiar-specific vocabulary comes from Old Peculiar, like syndrigasti and ymbryne, and there's one song in it. But even Millard — who prides himself as a scholar of all things peculiar — only knows a little, and there's definitely no one having conversations in Old Peculiar.
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Classical Tongue / int_68237790	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder: The language of the ancient Azlanti empire hasn't been used in millennia, but has been incorporated into the common tongues of Taldane and Varisian and can still be found in some ruins.
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Classical Tongue / int_6ac55ec7	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons In the default setting, Draconic is one of the most ancient languages still in use, partly thanks to its use in magical notation and partly because dragons are candidates for longest-lived non-immortal creatures. Forgotten Realms: Auld Wyrmish is the language of ancient dragon civilization with which different species talk with each other, while each kind itself uses derived dialects. Much the same applies to Giant, which is not the same as dialects that giant subspecies, e.g.: stone giants or verbeeg, use among themselves. Thorass or "Auld Common" is an ancient written trade language from which "Common" is derived, still used for official records in some lands. High Drow is an ancient dialect known mostly to the drow clergy, different enough that they sometimes use it for secret communication over the heads of lay worshipers.
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Classical Tongue / int_6bf150d5	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_6bf150d5	comment	Vow of Nudity: The Genasi see primordial as the world's proto-language and a source of national pride. Haara can also speak it, due to growing up in their empire as a slave.
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Classical Tongue / int_6e1d5f36	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Farscape has Old Luxan, which D'Argo needs specialized Translator Microbes (as opposed to the regular ones everyone has) to understand, and which Jool disparages him for not knowing. There's also an ancient Hynerian language, which Rygel does know as he's their deposed emperor.
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Classical Tongue / int_70193ebb	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_70193ebb	comment	Alex Benedict: The series takes place 9,600 years in the future, more than enough time for civilizations to rise and fall and give our future antiquities dealers something to pick through. Many languages have come and gone in that time. Notably, modern English vanished in the third millennium, and modern French only lasted a millenium more before both languages became only known by their written form — no one has recordings to know how they sounded.
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Classical Tongue / int_72e7d7f6	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_72e7d7f6	comment	Lord Peter Wimsey: At the end of Gaudy Night, Wimsey makes his last marriage proposal to Harriet Vane in Latin and she accepts in the same language ("Placet," meaning "it pleases"). They're both highly educated graduates of Oxford University, where the novel is set. The event is special, in that Wimsey unsuccessfully proposed marriage to Harriet (in the vernacular) repeatedly over the course of several years and several novels.
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Classical Tongue / int_76e7de99	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_76e7de99	comment	Forgotten Realms: Auld Wyrmish is the language of ancient dragon civilization with which different species talk with each other, while each kind itself uses derived dialects. Much the same applies to Giant, which is not the same as dialects that giant subspecies, e.g.: stone giants or verbeeg, use among themselves. Thorass or "Auld Common" is an ancient written trade language from which "Common" is derived, still used for official records in some lands. High Drow is an ancient dialect known mostly to the drow clergy, different enough that they sometimes use it for secret communication over the heads of lay worshipers.
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Classical Tongue / int_77677ed1	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_77677ed1	comment	Sword of the Stars: Negotiating with different species requires researching their languages. Most of them have three, a "Common Tongue" that allows Ceasefire agreements, a secondary language that allows the formation of alliances or non-aggresion pacts, and a third that enables tech sharing and demands for their surrender. Humanity's are English, Latin, and Hanzi.
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Classical Tongue / int_7de8951a	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_7de8951a	comment	Traveller: Among Darrians, the Old Script Yaser Te-yulep is used for poetry and legal documents and the Roman Script Rome Te-yelup is used generally.
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Classical Tongue / int_8ce98f07	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_8ce98f07	comment	In the Shinza Bansho Series, whenever a character speaks and it is distorted, that means that the character in question is currently speaking in a language not of this current world but from a previous onenote Compare the before and after. Same character, same chant, different eras. As this is something not meant to exist in the current reality it creates a Black Speech like effect and tends to be exclusive to the Gods or those with close ties to them that populate the series.
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Classical Tongue / int_90f42a9b	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_90f42a9b	comment	The Wheel of Time: The Old Tongue, precursor to the Common Tongue used in the books. It was similarly the universal language in its own time, and is now used mainly by nobles to show off their status, much as Latin was in the real medieval age.
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Classical Tongue / int_9d34190a	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: Aldmeris, the language of the Aldmer (Old or First Elves), Precursors to all of the modern races of Mer (Elves). It parallels Latin in that it didn't so much die out as evolve into several distinct but clearly related languages, some living and others, like Dwemeris and the Falmer language, extinct. Translating Dwemeris is a side-quest plot point in Morrowind while translating the Falmer language is a side-quest plot point in Skyrim. Rediscovering the language of the dragons (Dovahzul) is a main quest plot point in Skyrim.
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Classical Tongue / int_9d47a2a2	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire has High Valyrian, the language of the lost Valyrian Freehold. In Westeros it's taught to the highborn as a sign of noble education, particularly in the Valyria-descended Targaryen dynasty. In the East, it's been absorbed into local "bastard Valyrian" dialects in the Free Cities and blended with Old Ghiscari in the languages of Slaver's Bay. Some notable words or phrases include valar morghulis ("all men must die", an Essosi greeting that is traditionally replied by valar dohaeris, "all men must serve"), valonqar ("little brother", part of a prophecy that haunts Cersei Lannister since childhood), and dracarys ("dragonfire", used by Daenerys to command her dragons to breathe fire).
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Classical Tongue / int_a183d57f	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama has a Running Gag where French has become one by the year 3000.
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Classical Tongue / int_a62dae97	comment	Arabic is an interesting case. Classical Arabic — the flowery language of The Qur'an — is unquestionably dead, but it's not difficult to understand for one who speaks Modern Standard Arabic, which is less flowery and more businesslike. However, nobody speaks MSA as a first language, either: they speak one of the numerous varieties of Arabic. However, none of these are traditionally written down, and high-class colloquial Arabic blends seamlessly into MSA anyhow. The result is that while Classical Arabic is a classical language for Arabs (and a holy language for Muslims, Arab or otherwise), Arabic in general is very much alive.note The same process is how we got from Latin to the various Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian, etc.), incidentally. Vulgar Latin, a simplified version of the elaborate Classical Latin and the form spoken by the masses, gradually broke up into different dialects that evolved in different directions. The difference is that the printing press and widespread literacy — and eventually broadcast media and the Internet — arrived in the Arab world before the split was complete. One of the peculiar discoveries of recent Arabic linguistics is that if you write most Arabic dialects in Arabic script and use etymological spellings, Arabic-speakers can mostly understand passages in each other's dialects even if they wouldn't have a clue what was going on if the passages were read out loud. As it turns out, grammatical differences between most dialects aren't big enough to affect understanding, the pronunciation differences are mostly elided by the script (variant vowels are hidden because Arabic script leaves them out and variant consonants follow consistent sound laws and are thus covered up through etymological spelling), and vocabulary differences are easy to resolve for an educated speaker (as they usually derive from synonyms or near-synonyms in Classical Arabic). This discovery became widespread with the advent of the Internet, as Arabic-speakers increasingly needed to spell out their vernacular speech for chats, text messaging, Facebook posts, tweets, and so on.
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Classical Tongue / int_a8150af4	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Elendil befriends Galadriel in Numenor by talking in Quenya with her, assuring her that the Elves still have friends in Numenor, especially on the Western shores where the Faithful resides. Quenya is mostly used only by some parts of the Numenorian aristocracy, such as the Faithful, and most of kingdom's old documents at the Hall of Lore are written in Quenya.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power	hasFeature	Classical Tongue / int_a8150af4
Classical Tongue / int_b0b4e8ff	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_b0b4e8ff	comment	Jade Empire: BioWare commissioned a 2,500 word Conlang called Tho Fan, also known in universe as "the Old Tongue". They ended up using it to save memory on dialogue as they could get away with using only a few sentences in what would sound like gibberish to most players, and the majority of NPCs speak "English" anyways.
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Classical Tongue / int_b7ab2f7c	comment	Flame's Shade — Revisited: Faunus have a basic primal "language" consisting of animal-like noises. This language is something they know from birth. Some noises are known species-wide but some are only understandable to their own kind of faunus (such as cat faunus growls or rabbit faunus clicking).
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Classical Tongue / int_b8af2f5	comment	From Behind Bars: "Lion-latin" is this to lions. It's actually Swahili.
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Classical Tongue / int_bee47cbe	comment	Unsounded: The dead Old Tainish language has been replaced by Tainish and Continental in common speech, but is still studied extensively as the Language of Magic. Since it's the only language the Background Magic Field of the Khert understands, spell composers put a lot of work into rediscovering long-lost bits of vocabulary.
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Classical Tongue / int_c3335b05	comment	RWBY: Scars,:Faunus have a language separate from the Common Tongue everyone uses known as "Ishvi". They only use it amongst other Faunus because for years they've been persecuted by humans for speaking it.
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Classical Tongue / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Old High Gallifreyan is the ancient language of the Time Lords, since become so obscure that the Doctor writes a diary in the language to ensure it can't be read by others.
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Classical Tongue / int_c565e657	comment	A Canticle for Leibowitz: English and Latin have this status for the Church. One aspiring monk remarks on the strangeness of English grammar.
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Classical Tongue / int_cebbba4f	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_cebbba4f	comment	The Dark Tower: "High Speech", which is the language of Gilead, the city of Gunslingers, and is considered a "civilized" language compared to the Low Speech of everyday communication. It's an "old" language in the sense that, by the time of the first novel (The Gunslinger), Roland is the last of the Gunslingers and thus one of the few people left in the world who actually can speak it.
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Classical Tongue / int_d50ee4b7	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_d50ee4b7	comment	Scholars now suspect that the written standard form of Old English (the language of Beowulf) had become this, or at least started to, by the Norman Conquest. Numerous misspellings and scribal errors suggest that the late Anglo-Saxons' spoken language had already come to greatly resemble what we now call Middle English even without the much-vaunted impact of Norman French. This is largely attributed to contact with the Old Norse spoken by the vikings and viking descendants of the Danelaw (which consisted of roughly the northeastern half of the country). The viking contact not only gave Old English a bunch of new words, it affected the grammar of the language: Old Norse was related to Old English but had a vastly different set of grammatical inflections, so the English and vikings quickly realized that they could make themselves understood by just dropping the inflections and relying on word order and helper words to convey grammatical information (what linguists call analytical grammar). This quickly became the spoken standard even in areas technically outside the Danelaw, most notably London. Meanwhile the written standard was based on the West Saxon dialect spoken in the court of Alfred the Great and which continued to be spoken in the southwest, and was therefore essentially free of any Norse influence, including the shift from an essentially inflected to an analytical structure. Thus by 1066, the written standard language was no longer much like what most English people spoke, especially outside The West Country and certain western parts of The Midlands.
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Classical Tongue / int_dea37b6c	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_dea37b6c	comment	Ironclaw has Magniloquentia, a dead language that was spoken in Triskellion before they conquered Calabria. Even the majority of priests don't speak it and only read the Calabrese translations of their holy scripture, though there are some advanced holy spells that have to be learned in the original Magniloquentia.
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Classical Tongue / int_e199d649	comment	Inheritance Cycle: The Ancient Language, an ancient tongue once used by the Grey Men, the first recorded civilization. As an added bonus, it's a Language of Magic and Language of Truth due to a ritual used by the Grey Men to bind the formerly wild and uncontrolled forces of magic to it, which probably explains why it's no longer in common use.
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Classical Tongue / int_ea169528	comment	Ears for Elves: Some children argue about the proper pronunciation of "TaurÃ«", the word for "wood elves" in the Forgotten Tongue. It's the first part of the name of the TaurÃ«cuiva Festival.
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Classical Tongue / int_eed321b1	type	Classical Tongue
Classical Tongue / int_eed321b1	comment	Ars Magica: Latin is the standard academic language in Mythic Europe. Characters need to have a formal education to learn it, and most Academic abilities are only taught in Latin. It's also the common language of European Magical Society, used in tribunal meetings and in magical scholarship.
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Classical Tongue / int_f1d492d4	comment	Chronicles of the Kencyrath: Kens is the Kencyr language. High Kens is a super formal and archaic form of the langugage. The scholarly Jaran's battle cry is in High Kens, in the vein of Smart People Know Latin.
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Classical Tongue / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: It's mentioned in one episode that French has become a dead language.
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Ghoul / int_9041e51c	type	Classical Tongue
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