Is there anywhere in the game where the languages are used to hide quests, and story lines?
Other than certain notes and books, but actual NPC's speaking anything other than common?
How do the languages servive, if your a human and you visit Talas all the Barbarians are speaking common, what of thier own tongue?
Languages
Almost every race in Norrath has its own unique language, and with a little practice you can learn them all.
What is the best way to develop your different language skills? Which languages are the most and least useful to learn? Who should be developing their language skills, and why?
Post your strategies on how to best use the language skills, and read, rate and comment on those posted by others.
Anonymous
39 posts
i think this erudite lady in qeynos south responds to people who talk to her in erudite, she is an enchanter and her name is danaria holland i think, and she was blue to me when i was lvl 25, so shes around 23 or so
Anonymous
I have found a few notes in kunark on sarnak bodies, which were written in a language which I presume to be sarnak. I didn't understand anything it said. The note was no drop no rent, so its gone now. I also don't know who I could learn sarnak from (maybe it was iksar). But apparently there is some usage of languages in game.
9 posts
To the best of my knowledge there are no NPCs that speak a different tongue. It's a shame Verant hasn't done more with this.
Anonymous
although, if verant did implement this, you might be able to just keep hitting the 'H' key to hail the NPC and learn the language that way.
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Sekcie Daggerfury
Tempting Fate
Druzzil Ro
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Sekcie Daggerfury
Tempting Fate
Druzzil Ro
Anonymous
i really doubt it, they prob would not let the npc even notice or reply to you if you couldnt speak it over a certain level, and you probably wouldnt learn it from npcs, only in group like now
Anonymous
They dont answer, it s true !
There's a couple of dwarfs in EC who only answer if yu speak in dwarf .........
There's a couple of dwarfs in EC who only answer if yu speak in dwarf .........
Anonymous
Is it possbile to learn languages from NPC's, such as Gnoll etc, apart from spending practice points at you guild?
Anonymous
I personally learned gnollish in blackburrow. I noticed it one day when I went to train and I had that language available in my "known" skills. I also had once or twice where I HEARD gnolls speaking in blackburrow. Not text typed on the screen, but actually heard them speaking. I am currently in Lake of Ill Omen and there are times when it ALMOST sounds as if I can understand the sanaks. I'm hoping that I will be around them long enough to learn their language.
Saneril
E'Ci Server
Saneril
E'Ci Server
Anonymous
To all linguist
I have been learning all the languages as a Bard because I thougth from a roleplaying stand point, Bard's should be fluent in all languages. Ok, maybe its silly, but I also enjoy the challenge of trying to learn them all. My question is this. Where can someone learn Kerran? I have never even heard of this language, and most of the people that respond to my request to learn languages tell me they have never heard of it either and doubt it exists. If anyone can help me, please email me at wmiller7@mindspring.com or post an answer for others to see also. By the way, I am excellent in all languages except Orcish and Kerran. For some reason, Orcish is hard to find on Mith Marr at excellent. I am willing to teach the all the other languages to others. Again I am on the Mith Marr server. Just msg me sometime.
Cordially,
Wilhem
Mith Marr
I have been learning all the languages as a Bard because I thougth from a roleplaying stand point, Bard's should be fluent in all languages. Ok, maybe its silly, but I also enjoy the challenge of trying to learn them all. My question is this. Where can someone learn Kerran? I have never even heard of this language, and most of the people that respond to my request to learn languages tell me they have never heard of it either and doubt it exists. If anyone can help me, please email me at wmiller7@mindspring.com or post an answer for others to see also. By the way, I am excellent in all languages except Orcish and Kerran. For some reason, Orcish is hard to find on Mith Marr at excellent. I am willing to teach the all the other languages to others. Again I am on the Mith Marr server. Just msg me sometime.
Cordially,
Wilhem
Mith Marr
Anonymous
Kerran is not a in game language. There is no where to teach it.
From what I have been able to track down, the rumor started when Allakhazam's site (yes, this one...) listed it as a langauge. As per Verant, it is not an official language.
Hope that helps.
Erimore, Battle Bard of Lanys T'Vyl
Master Linguist
Anonymous
Thankks, I was wondering about Kerran. I guess I have them all.
Aeeny
Quellious server
Aeeny
Quellious server
Anonymous
Ok now I know HOW to learn languages, but does anyone know what USE they are except for casters?
How is it casters need the languages? and what about druids?
Anonymous
To speak in code in pvp
#Anonymous,
Posted: Sep 13 2000 at 11:54 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) To speak in code in pvp
Anonymous
Alot of notes and books in game can not be read unless you are able to speak a certain language.
Anonymous
Yes, but are these notes and books of any vital or pertinent use for a character?
Anonymous
There are some quests that use languages, and the research and poisen making books are written in different languages
Anonymous
ok. if you are an int based caster you have to research some of your spells..now way back when before everybody posted all this usefull information...you actually had to learn how to speak different languages so you knew what to put into your research containers to make your spells. for the roleplaying commnity it made more sense than asking /ooc how do i make my lv 34 pet?
Scholar
20 posts
One easy way for a pair of people who are interested in learning ALL the languages is to:
#1) Have one of you get one point in all of the languages(you have to be fairly high to get the one point in elder dragon)
#2) Go to some isolate location by a zone boundary (I chose erudin)
#3) Form a group between the two of you(or more)
#4) Set up a social with /g 1 /g 2 /g 3 /g 4 /g 5. It doesnt make any difference how many characters are on each line, so only do 1 to reduce the spam.
#5 The person who got the skills goes through each language and spams. Once the reciever gets 2 skillups they Jump. This is the best way I have seen to let the first person know when to change languages.
#6 When the reciever has gained 2 points in each language you zone.
#7 Now the reciever does step 5.
#8 Keep going back and forth until you are about 6 points into excellent and you are done.
#1) Have one of you get one point in all of the languages(you have to be fairly high to get the one point in elder dragon)
#2) Go to some isolate location by a zone boundary (I chose erudin)
#3) Form a group between the two of you(or more)
#4) Set up a social with /g 1 /g 2 /g 3 /g 4 /g 5. It doesnt make any difference how many characters are on each line, so only do 1 to reduce the spam.
#5 The person who got the skills goes through each language and spams. Once the reciever gets 2 skillups they Jump. This is the best way I have seen to let the first person know when to change languages.
#6 When the reciever has gained 2 points in each language you zone.
#7 Now the reciever does step 5.
#8 Keep going back and forth until you are about 6 points into excellent and you are done.
Anonymous
I can verify that this technique works well, I discovered the technique myself a few days ago.
Rumor has it that if you have sufficient skill in the right language, that you can sometimes hear mobs say things. Insults, info about an NPC, such as last seen and where, and so forth. I have not had the opportunity to verify this as of yet, though.
Elder Dragon will help a wizard read the rune recipe books. I'm sure other languages have other uses as well, but it's certainly not one of those MUST have skills. I enjoy learning them because it seems to me that a Wizard spends a great deal of time studying and knowledge of many languages would be important.
Rumor has it that if you have sufficient skill in the right language, that you can sometimes hear mobs say things. Insults, info about an NPC, such as last seen and where, and so forth. I have not had the opportunity to verify this as of yet, though.
Elder Dragon will help a wizard read the rune recipe books. I'm sure other languages have other uses as well, but it's certainly not one of those MUST have skills. I enjoy learning them because it seems to me that a Wizard spends a great deal of time studying and knowledge of many languages would be important.
Anonymous
Hear as in through the speakers, or hear as is thorugh text?
Gantrithor Level 29 Druid
Karana Server
Gantrithor Level 29 Druid
Karana Server
12 posts
Common Tongue: the language of commerce -- spread by human merchants
Dark Speech: a patchwork language shared by the evil races
Thieves' Cant: can be spoken completely in handsigns
Barbarian: a rough language of the northern people
Erudite, Elder Erudite: quite complicated languages -- the older bears some resemblence to Common
Combine Empire: ancient language of the geomancers, now spoken only by Giants
Elvish, Elder Elvish: the melodic languages of Tunare
Dwarven: the gruff and deep language of Brell
Gnomish: a scientific variation of Dwarvish
Halfling: a lilting, merry language
Tier`Dal, Elder Tier`Dal: harsh and hateful tongues
Ogre: simple:- but contains a vast vocabulary for war
Troll: a fear-inducing language
Lizardman: a tongue of hisses -- very smooth
Dragon, Elder Dragon: languages of the great wyrms
Pixie: a language of music not words -- simply delightful
Orc: gutteral and stupid and a pain to read
Gnoll: a lingua of barks and growls
Froglok: languge of the frog people
Kobold: a simple tongue of howling and yelping
Kerran: language of the cat people (ooc: not learnable)
Dark Speech: a patchwork language shared by the evil races
Thieves' Cant: can be spoken completely in handsigns
Barbarian: a rough language of the northern people
Erudite, Elder Erudite: quite complicated languages -- the older bears some resemblence to Common
Combine Empire: ancient language of the geomancers, now spoken only by Giants
Elvish, Elder Elvish: the melodic languages of Tunare
Dwarven: the gruff and deep language of Brell
Gnomish: a scientific variation of Dwarvish
Halfling: a lilting, merry language
Tier`Dal, Elder Tier`Dal: harsh and hateful tongues
Ogre: simple:- but contains a vast vocabulary for war
Troll: a fear-inducing language
Lizardman: a tongue of hisses -- very smooth
Dragon, Elder Dragon: languages of the great wyrms
Pixie: a language of music not words -- simply delightful
Orc: gutteral and stupid and a pain to read
Gnoll: a lingua of barks and growls
Froglok: languge of the frog people
Kobold: a simple tongue of howling and yelping
Kerran: language of the cat people (ooc: not learnable)
Anonymous
I have a friend who supposedly speaks beetle. I haven't managed to learn it from him since he has since moved to another server. I would dearly love to learn this one just to figure out what all the clicks are for!
Saneril - Ranger
E'Ci
Saneril - Ranger
E'Ci
Anonymous
Goblin is speakable
Anonymous
Where/How do you learn Pixie? I was told Kerran was leaarnable, and had been looking for it, but not pixie, so now I know not to look for one, and have a different one to find!
Krystalsinger
Knights of Velious
Luclin Server
Krystalsinger
Knights of Velious
Luclin Server
47 posts
Are these (including goblin, and excepting Kerran) all "learnable" languages in-game???
If that's true, I count 25 learnable languages... Is there really that many? Thanks in advance for your reply...
BTW, does anybody actually know how to speak all these???
If that's true, I count 25 learnable languages... Is there really that many? Thanks in advance for your reply...
BTW, does anybody actually know how to speak all these???
Anonymous
My High Elf Cleric has made it his personal quest in life to speak all the languages of this great land. Kerran is a new one to me, but at level 15, he speaks the rest of the languages at Excellent. I roleplay this character and have all the languages on there own hotkeys, so I can switch between them and talk to other PC in the own language.
To make a hotkey type: /language help - to bring up the language list.
Then make the hotkey: /language 1 (for Common) and so on. Just put the language number from the list on the hotkey. Example: /language #
I have fun with the languages and you would be supprised how many people think you don't know what they are saying about you or someone else, because they're using their "Racial" language.
Although not a "Trade Skill" I have made a reasonable sum oif coins teaching people. My best so far, 100pp for teaching a level 52 Necro, Halfling and Froglok. Not bad for half an hours work and he taught me Dragon in return.
Well that's my two cents worth.....
Krynn,
High Elf Cleric of Tunare
Kingdom of Light Guild (Drinal)
Master Linguist
15th Season
To make a hotkey type: /language help - to bring up the language list.
Then make the hotkey: /language 1 (for Common) and so on. Just put the language number from the list on the hotkey. Example: /language #
I have fun with the languages and you would be supprised how many people think you don't know what they are saying about you or someone else, because they're using their "Racial" language.
Although not a "Trade Skill" I have made a reasonable sum oif coins teaching people. My best so far, 100pp for teaching a level 52 Necro, Halfling and Froglok. Not bad for half an hours work and he taught me Dragon in return.
Well that's my two cents worth.....
Krynn,
High Elf Cleric of Tunare
Kingdom of Light Guild (Drinal)
Master Linguist
15th Season
Anonymous
You forgot goblin
33 posts
are those all the languages?
Anonymous
No those are not. Its Erudian not Erudite.
Anonymous
Yes those are all the langs including also including goblin. and except kerran you can learn and speak them all (not sure about kerran so I take his word). I have faerie not pixie so I'm assuming they are the same because well there more faeries than pixie NPCs anyway. and to the question does anyone speak all these I speak most of them although I'm still in search of some of the NPC languages. To learn them you have to gain lvls and eventually your NPC GM offers them although he won't offer them all so you must learn some from other players. If you fight certain mobs for a long time when you reach the lvl required of yer class to learn that language it may already have a great amount of skill in it. example I fought orcs forever and when I hit a certain lvl it was already excellent and I now speak it :). That's all
Scholar
39 posts
Is there a way to learn languages past your current level without grouping with other players or spending skill points? If I have a "10" in a language and sit there and talk to myself or others is there any chance that I can improve? Can language skills raise by just hiting a spam key over and over again? Or does someone actually have to "teach" it to you?
12 posts
You can teach someone else to a skill one above your own. Then after you both zone the other person can teach you what he has learned, plus one point. (You must change zones after you learn a language to have the knowledge kick in)
Say I had a 75 skill in pixie. I could teach someone else enough to raise their skill to 76.
Say I had a 75 skill in pixie. I could teach someone else enough to raise their skill to 76.
Actually, when you zoning back and forth is not neccesary i have heard, its just you need to zone for the computer to change it on your skill list, but hey i could be wrong?
15 posts
There are many languages Everquest. All races except humans have a language unique to their race, evil races have their "Darkspeech", rogues have "Theives Cant" and so on. In addition, all characters start with "Common" at Excellent, and most of the time you will see people using Common.
On a non-PvP server, the advantages of learing languages are limited, but it will still help in reading certain notes that you find, as well as with researching new magic spells. (I imagine that on the Team PvP server, the evil races use Darkspeech so "Good" characters can't understand them). There are four languages used for reading books about researching spells. They are Elder Elven, Elder Erudite, Elder Dragon, and I believe Combine (the language of the Giants). Obviously, Elves begin with Elder Elven, and Erudites with Elder Erudite.
As you advance in levels, you will notice that there are some other languages that appear when you are training at your class's guildhouse. These include Goblin, Gnoll, Elder Dragon, and many others. While there is no obvious reason to train in these, it is possible to learn these languages with a minimal investment of skill points. You can see if you can find someone you can pay to teach you the language, or you can learn them with a friend (even if only one of you has just one point in that language).
Heres how:
1) Group up with your friend, and have both of you turn off group chat in your options (this will prevent you from going Linkdead from all the spamming).
2) Set your language to the one you want to work up by right clicking the dialogue box when in the small view mode (the one where the dialogue box looks like a scroll).
3) Make a language hotkey using all six slots. start each with /g and then just one word after.
Sample:
/g Hi
/g how
/g are
/g you
/g doing
/g today?
4) Hit the hotkey repeatedly until he or she /tell's you that the language skill stopped increasing. You will see a message that goes something like "Your language skills have improved". If you are teaching the language from 0 or 1 point, it will only go up a few times before it stops.
5) When the language skill stops increasing, both of you should zone. Now you will be able to teach eachother again and your language skill will be able to raise a few more points. (This is because you are able to teach someone only a little more of the language than you know yourself. So if you had 1 point in the "Gnoll" language, you might be able to teach a friend Gnoll up to around 3 or 4. After zoning, your friend could teach you Gnoll up to 5 or 6.) Continue to do this until your skill rating reaches Excellent.
If one of you knows the language up to Excellent, then only the person learning the language will have to zone, and only once. By the time you've heard the "Your language skills have improved" message about 90 times, you will have an Excellent rating in that language when you zone.
Be warned that learning a language skill up from one point with a friend may take several hours. It takes only about 5 or 10 minutes if one person has the skill up to Excellent. Its best to teach and learn new languages near the zone edge of a zone that isn't frequently trained.
On a non-PvP server, the advantages of learing languages are limited, but it will still help in reading certain notes that you find, as well as with researching new magic spells. (I imagine that on the Team PvP server, the evil races use Darkspeech so "Good" characters can't understand them). There are four languages used for reading books about researching spells. They are Elder Elven, Elder Erudite, Elder Dragon, and I believe Combine (the language of the Giants). Obviously, Elves begin with Elder Elven, and Erudites with Elder Erudite.
As you advance in levels, you will notice that there are some other languages that appear when you are training at your class's guildhouse. These include Goblin, Gnoll, Elder Dragon, and many others. While there is no obvious reason to train in these, it is possible to learn these languages with a minimal investment of skill points. You can see if you can find someone you can pay to teach you the language, or you can learn them with a friend (even if only one of you has just one point in that language).
Heres how:
1) Group up with your friend, and have both of you turn off group chat in your options (this will prevent you from going Linkdead from all the spamming).
2) Set your language to the one you want to work up by right clicking the dialogue box when in the small view mode (the one where the dialogue box looks like a scroll).
3) Make a language hotkey using all six slots. start each with /g and then just one word after.
Sample:
/g Hi
/g how
/g are
/g you
/g doing
/g today?
4) Hit the hotkey repeatedly until he or she /tell's you that the language skill stopped increasing. You will see a message that goes something like "Your language skills have improved". If you are teaching the language from 0 or 1 point, it will only go up a few times before it stops.
5) When the language skill stops increasing, both of you should zone. Now you will be able to teach eachother again and your language skill will be able to raise a few more points. (This is because you are able to teach someone only a little more of the language than you know yourself. So if you had 1 point in the "Gnoll" language, you might be able to teach a friend Gnoll up to around 3 or 4. After zoning, your friend could teach you Gnoll up to 5 or 6.) Continue to do this until your skill rating reaches Excellent.
If one of you knows the language up to Excellent, then only the person learning the language will have to zone, and only once. By the time you've heard the "Your language skills have improved" message about 90 times, you will have an Excellent rating in that language when you zone.
Be warned that learning a language skill up from one point with a friend may take several hours. It takes only about 5 or 10 minutes if one person has the skill up to Excellent. Its best to teach and learn new languages near the zone edge of a zone that isn't frequently trained.
One good zone for this is the Temple of Solusek Ro. I know I learned quite a few languages in a short amount of time here. If you can get three people doing this in a group with 3 different languages---the time spent is reduced greatly.
Lovejoy Hatepain
#Anonymous,
Posted: Aug 20 2000 at 1:34 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) How do i bounce a language? like learning gnoll lets say. i heard you teach all you know to one person, zone and then he teaches you and on and on till you max the language. Is this right?
#Anonymous,
Posted: Aug 20 2000 at 12:57 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) DOY!!!! duh dubba do da GAK dubba dubba daddy.
33 posts
your an idiot
#Anonymous,
Posted: Aug 18 2000 at 9:01 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) I know how a language can be transfered from one player to another player, but I wonder where is the Gnoll language comes from(other languages as well)? Simply we can't pick a gnoll race to start.
Anonymous
sure ya could. all i know is it would be kinda tough to be a gnoll, w/o being a computer
Anonymous
You can learn languages from your guild trainer. Different ones in different places teach different languages.
12 posts
Setup a simple hot key - YOU ONLY NEED 1 WORD PER LINE! More words per line will only cause you greater lag and higher chance to go LD.
I think you can setup a 5 line phrase per hot key (only need one key). To advance in skill, it goes by number or lines, not amout of words. So, here is how my HotKey is setup:
Key button: Teach
/g You
/g are
/g learning
/g a new
/g language.
Just chose the language and repeat (watch that lag meter, you can make your self go LD quite quickly. Be sure all in the group have group chat OFF and tell them if their skill stops advancing to hit the "H" or whatever their Hail key is a bunch of times so you see it. As the teacher, your screen will be filled will spam.
Also, remember that you must logout and log back on (or zone) to see your advance in skill.
Good Luck! Have fun - BTW, has anyone ever heard of the language "Giant Speak"? I have them all, I thought, but I heard rumors about this one. Does it exist?
I think you can setup a 5 line phrase per hot key (only need one key). To advance in skill, it goes by number or lines, not amout of words. So, here is how my HotKey is setup:
Key button: Teach
/g You
/g are
/g learning
/g a new
/g language.
Just chose the language and repeat (watch that lag meter, you can make your self go LD quite quickly. Be sure all in the group have group chat OFF and tell them if their skill stops advancing to hit the "H" or whatever their Hail key is a bunch of times so you see it. As the teacher, your screen will be filled will spam.
Also, remember that you must logout and log back on (or zone) to see your advance in skill.
Good Luck! Have fun - BTW, has anyone ever heard of the language "Giant Speak"? I have them all, I thought, but I heard rumors about this one. Does it exist?
Anonymous
This is my Lang hotkey that has not caused me any trouble yet:
/pause 1,/g a
/pause 1,/g e
/pause 1,/g i
/pause 1,/g o
/pause 1,/g u
/pause 1,/g a
/pause 1,/g e
/pause 1,/g i
/pause 1,/g o
/pause 1,/g u
Anonymous
'Giant speak' Is 'Combine'.
Whenever I'm in a language lesson I just turn off group chat in the chat filter. You still gain skill just like usual, and you don't get spammed, and won't go LD.
You won't miss anything important, because your groupmates can just use say to talk normally during the lesson.
You won't miss anything important, because your groupmates can just use say to talk normally during the lesson.
Do what now?
12 posts
I know, it is the teacher that usually goes LD, not the students. Sorry for not making this clear, hehe.
Ah, well, usually when I do a language lesson all 6 people are talking in different languages, for maximum skill gain..... for that, even with groupchat off, you need a fast connection, I'm sure... but yeah, to keep the one talked for going LD< your method works great
Do what now?
Anonymous
Combine tongue is the language of the giants.
Scholar
18 posts
You can teach and learn languages quickly at the same time.
1) Each person wanting to teach a language should have made a "Teach" hot key that has several lines of text to say in group. The more that you can fit in one hotkey command, the better.
2) Group with the folks that you want to teach (and learn from if you're exchanging knowledge).
3) Set your language to the one you wish to teach.
4) Important step! Everyone in the group turns on the filter for group chat so that you don't see it. We're about ready to do the mother of all spamming, and we don't want anyone to go link dead.
5) All teachers keep hitting the hotkey repeatedly to train. Everyone should fairly regularly see improvement messages until they've learned all they can.
If you want to teach a second language, just switch languages and continue.
6) When everyone's through, don't forget to disable the group chat filter so that you'll see future group messages.
In theory, a group of six could learn five new languages from the other group members in a very short period of time.
1) Each person wanting to teach a language should have made a "Teach" hot key that has several lines of text to say in group. The more that you can fit in one hotkey command, the better.
2) Group with the folks that you want to teach (and learn from if you're exchanging knowledge).
3) Set your language to the one you wish to teach.
4) Important step! Everyone in the group turns on the filter for group chat so that you don't see it. We're about ready to do the mother of all spamming, and we don't want anyone to go link dead.
5) All teachers keep hitting the hotkey repeatedly to train. Everyone should fairly regularly see improvement messages until they've learned all they can.
If you want to teach a second language, just switch languages and continue.
6) When everyone's through, don't forget to disable the group chat filter so that you'll see future group messages.
In theory, a group of six could learn five new languages from the other group members in a very short period of time.
Anonymous
Hi. I'm about to get EQ,and I was wondering if humans have a certain language they can speak only to other humans with?
9 posts
No, humans (excluding thieves) begin with only Common.
Scholar
30 posts
this does work but better if everyone in the group does it with a diffrent one so you learn as you teach it is alot of funn to make fun of some one in their own launage =)
I've got last!
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