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A bit of world building. I'm writing and plotting the next arc of Mountain Divide and who speaks what language becomes very important in the distant future. You haven't seen Glenn yet in book 1. I believe she was mentioned, but never showed up. She makes a decent appearance in book 2, but I think she's going to be a much more major character going forward. 

Lily is good with languages. She only spoke Mountainese growing up. She grew up in Rockport, the Mountain Province's only warm water port, and did pick up bits and pieces of Ceasian (an other language spoken by islanders in the Provincial Union), but would not consider herself fluent in the language as she's forgotten most of it since she left home. She learned Common Language in the army. The army only operates in Common Language, so it was a rough couple months as she learned the language and then helped her fellow Mountainers who were not as skilled with language learning as she was. Lily was stationed in several countries early in her military career. Although mostly, she was not in a country long enough to learn the language. She was stationed in Parshin long enough to pick up bits and pieces of their language, but, similar to Ceasian, Lily wouldn't consider himself fluent. Cronian is the language of Cronia. I'm going to start digging into Lily's history there. Lily was stationed there before being sent to fight the rebellion in the Mountain Divide. She spent enough time there, and enough time in contact with locals to firmly pick up the language. 

Mia speaks Mountainese only through the end of book 1. She learns Common Language towards the beginning of book 2. She is not good with languages like Lily, but she doesn't have anything else to do. 

Glenn only speaks Mountainese and a small amount of Common Language that no one would mistake for fluent. 


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Naikios's avatar
I love this format for the languages, it makes life so easy!