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tovaicas · 11 months

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squenix tell me abt the linguistic evolution in ishgard following the calamity once everyone who lived out in the coerthan countryside before the climate went fuck you actually and were like, minor satellite noble houses and levy soldiers and farmers who couldn't afford to live inside a warded holy city with houses made of stone, a non-flammable material, suddenly had to drop everything and run for their lives and squeeze into a vertically built city with extremely limited available space for housing considering coerthas is Large and ishgardian is definitely one of those language groups that changes accent and dialect every village

#this is what happened to house leuvechier actually they had farmland before the Enfuckening and had to Squeeze into ish//gard #...I have to. rewrite some parts of rouvastre's backstory. but anyway.#I want to know how city ishgardian changed once all these farmers and part time soldiers and minor nobles #with their own local ways of speaking started pouring in.#did the highborne register get exalted to a very prestige level in response. did brume ishgardian catapult to being a shibboleth #in and of itself. did the standard ishgardian spoken among soldiers evolve rapidly as it gained new terms from other parts of coerthas #is the very fact that the calamity was only five years ago and you can still hear exactly where someone was from by accent and dialect #considered a tragedy in and of itself.#ishgardposting #saint.txt

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