In the game: help languages Also shinar babble harran nisabic tongues
The four languages of Deshret: Shinar, Babble, Harran, and Nisabic.
Four languages are in common use across Deshret. All four are blends of our languages, mixed in different ways. The real languages of the old world survive only in bits and pieces.
Shinar
The common tongue, spoken all over the city. Nearly every citizen learns to speak, read, and write it in a Sepulchre creche.
Babble
The pidgin of the slummers of Suburba.
Harran
The language Sepulchre uses for its rites, and possibly for occult practice too.
Nisabic
The language of administration and record-keeping.
Signs
There is no official sign language, because the Tessera in every citizen's head lets them reach the network. Some groups, criminal ones especially, have made up their own local signs and symbols for secret face-to-face talk.
Learning Languages
Languages have their own room, apart from your skills, so being good with languages does not cost you your main talents. Every character speaks Shinar. How many other languages you can learn depends on your attributes.
To choose the language you speak, see help roleplaying/language.
On the Agora: https://agora.underspire.net/t/language/61