Reading and Writing

[Spectator]

That list is... deeply questionable.

Hyperborean is a Hyborian language. So is Kothic (though doubtless with Shemitish loanwords aplenty)

Khitan and Stygian may have a distant relation from milennia ago, when the two peoples cohabited, but there is no reason to put them in the same family.

The Atlantian list is just borked. I can see an argument for the Antillian (if you overlook the complete disconnect between them and the Howardian Atlanteans) but WTF are the Picts and Nordheimers doing in there?

Yeah the Picts were a seperate race/language group during Kull's time so it is pretty suspect.

Also the fact that Brythunian is an unrelated language is suspect, as well. I was under the impression the Brythunians were Hyborian-blooded and that Brythunia and Nemedia (the vast plain they live on) was the first areas settled by the advancing/ invading Hyborian tribes.

You are right about Kothian being Hyborian. They were influenced by their souther neighbors the shemites, but were still genetically Hyborian, not Shemitic.

 

[The Bull]

:lol:

Ah, a most interesting thread, dearest sires, most interesting.

Thank you for all the insights I gained here.

 

[strategos14]

i keep it simple. i assume the hyborian tongues use the same alphabet. if your a noble or a scholar than you read and write your starting languages and any other language you know that also uses the same alphabet. a skill point is used if not a noble or a scholar and there must be a reason in your backstory as to how you were taught and if were already playing then it must make sense. a player of mine grew up in a backwater zamoran village. his grandmother taught him to read and write zamoran. he speaks turanian but does can't read or write it.