Apr 8, 2024
Tentative family chart for goblin-ken languages 🤔 In this setup Old Orcish is a pidgin->creole created after the Velothi Exodus through contact between the newly transformed orcs and their new goblin cousins. The Riekling dialect is considered part of the western family of Goblin-derived languages, despite their population's location on Solstheim, because it grew out of the Western dialect spoken by Riekrs who originally traveled across Skyrim.
There's no in-game evidence of east/west splits for ogres I just thought it made more sense than everyone across an enormous continent speaking the exact same language despite not having any central education system or even political capital.
