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Language

Spoken Language in the Sixth World has not changed drastically, although literacy has decreased as the matrix makes graphical iconography more common as a replacement for
verbose text.

There are also a number of new language isolates (single languages that are not part of a larger language family), such as Sperethiel.

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Language list Edit

Names in parenthesis are common alternate names for the languages or families in question.

Family: Language Edit

Anishinaabe: Algonquin, Arapaho, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Cree, Micmac, Mohican, Ojibwa, Shawnee, Wiyot, Yurok.

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Armenian – Isolate.

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Athabaskan (Athapascan, Na-Dené): Apache, Chipewyan, Navaho, Tlingit.

Baltic: Estonian, Latvian (Lettisch), Lithuanian.

Bantu (Niger-Kordofanian): Anyi, Ashanti, Azande, Bassa, Baule, Bemba, Birom, Bulu, Efik, Ewe, Fang, Fante, Fula, Ganda, Ibo, Igbo, Kikuyu, Kituba, Kongo, Kpele, Kru, Luba, Lunda,
Makua, Mande, Mbundu, Mende, More, Mossi, Ngala, Ngbaudi, Nyamwezi-Sukuma, Nyanja, Rundi, Rwanda, Shona, Sotho, Sukuma, Swahili, Temne, Tiv, Tswana, Twi, Wolof, Xhosa,
Yao, Yoruba, Zande, Zulu.

Basque – Isolate with dialects.

Caddoan: Caddo, Pawnee, Wichita.

Celtic: Breton, Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh.

Chinese (see Sino-Tibetan below)

Chukotko-Kamchatkan: Chukchi, Koryak.

Dravidian: Gondi, Kannada, Kurukh, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Tulu.

Eskimo-Aleut: Aleut, Inuit (Eskimo), Yupik.

Finnic: Cheremis, Finnish, Karelian, Lapp, Livonian, Mordvin, Veps, Votyak, Zyrian.

Germanic: Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Flemish, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Yiddish.

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Greek – Isolate.

Hamitic: Beja, Berber, Galla, Hausa (Chadic), Somali, Tuareg.

Indic: Assamese, Bengali, Bhilli, Gujarati, Hindi, Konkani, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Urdu.

Indo-Iranian: Baluchi, Kurdish, Persian (Farsi), Pushtu.

Iroquoian: Cayuga, Cherokee, Erie, Huron, Iroquois, Mohawk, Onandago, Oneida, Seneca, Tuscarora.

Japonic: Japanese, Ryukyuan (Okinawan et al.).

Khoisan: Bushman, Hadza, Hottentot, Nama, Sandawe.

Korean – Isolate.

Malayo-Polynesian: Bahasa, Cebuano, Hawaiʻian, Ilocano, Javanese, Kiriwina, Madurese, Malayan, Māori, Melanesian, Micronesian, Misima, Panay-Hiligaynon, Polynesian,
Waray-Waray (Samar-Leyte), Sāmoan, Sundanese, Tagalog, Tahitian, Taluga.

Mayan: Guatemala, Kaqchikel (Cakchiquel), Kekchi (Q’eqchi’), Mam, Quiché (K’iche’), Tz’utujil, Yucatec (Maya).

Mongolic: Khalkha (Mongolian).

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Mon-Khmer (Annamite): Cambodian (Khmer), Khmer Nāga, Mon, Vietnamese (Annamese).

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Or'zet – Orkish isolate.

Oto-Manguan: Mixtec, Otomi, Zapotec.

Papuan: Dayak, Negrito, Papu.

Perkins-Athabaskan – A sign language (see below).

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Romance: Amazonian Portuguese, Catalan, French, Galician, Italian, Portuguese, Provençal, Romanian, Spanish.

Salish: Chehalis, Okanagon, Salish.

Semitic: Amharic, Arabic, Harari, Hebrew, Neo-Aramaic, Tigré, Tigrinya.

Sino-Tibetan: Burmese, Cantonese, Hakka, Kashmiri, Lao, Mandarin, Min, Nepali, Shan, Thai, Tibetan, Wu, Yueh.

Siouan: Catawba, Crow, Dakota, Hidatsa, Omaha, Osage.

Slavic: Belorussian, Bulgarian, Czech, Georgian, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovene, Ukrainian.

South Amerindian: Arowakan, Aymara’, Cariban, Cuna, Epera, Mapudungun (Araucanian), Mataro, Ngäbere (Guaymi), Páez, Quechua, Tupi-Guarani, Waica, Yanomani.

Sperethiel – Elvish isolate with dialects.

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Tlingit – Isolate.

Tsimshianic: Gitxsan (Nisga’a), Tsimshian.

Tungusic: Evenki (Tungus), Nanai, Xibe (Manchu).

Turkic: Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Chuvash, Gagauz, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Tatar,Turkish, Turkmen, Uzbek, Yakut.

Ugrian: Magyar (Hungarian), Ostyak, Vogul.

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Upvehu – Pixie isolate.

Uto-Aztecan: Aztec, Comanche, Hopi, Nahuatl, Paiute, Papago, Pima, Shoshoni, Tarahumara, Ute.

Zuni – Isolate.

Other Edit

Special: City Speak, Esperanto, Interlingua, Tunnel Talk

Lingoes: City Speak (multiple versions), Legalese (used by lawyers, executives, and politicians), Magetalk (used by hermetics and those who study magic), Military Jargon (used by
soldiers and mercenaries), Netspeak (used by deckers/hackers), Scientific Jargon (used by researchers and lab techs), and Trog.

Sign language Edit

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Perkins-Athabaskan & Amerind Hand Talk
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French derived (LSF & ASL) – Over thirty dialects including American (ASL), Aztlaner (LSA), Brazilian (LIBRAS), French (LSF), German (DGS), Irish (ISL), Israeli (ISL), Russian
(RSL), Spanish (SSL), and Québec (LSQ).
British derived (BANZSL) – Eight dialects including Australian (Auslan), British (BSL), New Zealand (NZSL), and South African (SASL).
Japanese (JSL) influenced – Dialects include Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese sign languages.
Chinese based – Dialects include Shanghai (also used in Malaysia), Hong Kong (HKSL), Taiwan, and Tibetan.
Indo-Pakistani Sign Language (IPSL) – Dialects include Mumbai-Delhi, Calcutta, Bangalore-Madras, and Nepal.
Monastic – Dialects include Benedictine, Cistercian, and Trappist

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Background Edit

This detailed list of languages appeared in SR1 and SR2, although some spellings have been corrected here and common alternate names have been added. Information on Shadowrun's
fictional languages has also been updated if possible.

Later editions made little mention of language families, although those wanting to keep them could house-rule that Language Families are a form of Skill Group costing double what a
language would cost in karma. Language isolates would still be learned at the normal cost for a single language.

SR1&2 treat the "Special" languages as separate languages. City Speak was the common language of the sprawls including bits and pieces of many different languages (famous from its
original source, Blade Runner). Tunnel Talk was a common street language amongst orks and trolls.

SR3&4 treat the "Lingos" as specializations of their parent languages. So City Speak now has multiple regional versions, with North America for example having City Speak as a
specialization of English. One way to keep City Speak as a low level lingua franca, would be to assume that people who know different languages but each have a specialization in City
Speak could communicate as if they had a common language at rating 2.

Notes Edit
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Some linguists argue that Armenian and Greek constitute a language family.

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New languages mentioned in Runner's Companion (p. 63–66).

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The only sign language generally mentioned by name in Shadowrun is the fictional Perkins-Athabaskan used by North American sasquatches. The real sign languages listed above are
grouped based on the hand symbols they share. For example ASL/ISL/LSF/LSQ have relatively common alphabets and word symbols so an ASL/ISL user who writes in English could
communicate (in sign) with a LSF/LSQ user who writes in French; while neither could as easily communicate in sign with a BSL/Auslan/NZSL user who writes in English. In Shadowrun
terms ASL/ISL/LSF/LSQ are dialects of a single sign language common to North America, Ireland, and continental Europe, while BSL/Auslan/NZSL are dialects/lingoes of the sign
language common in the Commonwealth of Nations (excluding Canada). See Sign language classification at Wikipedia for more detail or other groupings.

Sources Edit
Shadowrun, page 61.
Shadowrun: Second Edition, pages 45, 74, 230.
Paradise Lost, page 74

Shadowrun: Third Edition, pages 58, 59, 91.

Runner's Companion, pages 63–66.
Wikipedia (for spelling and the details in the Notes section)

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