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[GreatWyrmGold]

Kobolds: Neanderthalic.

Kobolds: Dolphin

Kobolds: Babyspeak
Its the only explanation for the gibberish they speak.

Kobolds: That language you speak whilst incomprehensibly drunk.

[Mel_Vixen]

Dwarves - German/Danish/Norwegian - those languages have a "primitive" (no offense) feel to them, and the already exisitng accents in the game slightly nod towards those.

Actually its the other way around. The more a Language is distribute the more it gets dumbed down. The english of Shakespears time was more complex then todays. Its more opportune to have a easy and fast to learn language if you need to communicate in a big and far spread crowd. The smaller the core language the more people you can integrate fast and reliable into your group.  Esperanto would be the far end of this. The language base can be learned in 2 Hours and afte that you need just a few vocables.

I agree thought. We can also add some Slavic languages into the mix for dwarven.

[Corai]

Kobolds: German.

Kobold myths originated from somewhere in modern day Germany I think.

[Splint]

Someone made an animation about Dwarf Fortress and it was spoken in german, which felt right for the dwarves. So for dwarves I'd say German.

Humans seem to have a sort of mix between european and arabic so I wanna say like... A mixture of spanish and arabic.

Elves: I'd agree with french or italian. Just seems like a proper fit.

Goblins... I dunno why but I wanna say Aztec.

Kobolds: they originate from 16-1800s german folklore, so a mixture of broken german and broken english(like they know the words but neither's rules)

[GreatWyrmGold]

Kobolds: German.

Kobold myths originated from somewhere in modern day Germany I think.

The word, "kobold," definitely, but not necessarily DFbolds.
Anyways, that needn't matter.

[WaffleEggnog]

Elves - French, Italian

I take offence to that, considering I speak both of those.

About Bolds', wouldent, like, each cave have their on made-up launguage, since they are mostly isolated other then their thieves?

[Leatra]

Elves - French, Italian

I take offence to that, considering I speak both of those.

About Bolds', wouldent, like, each cave hove their on made-up launguage, since they are mostly isolated other then their thieves?

Sorry but you know how french people are stereotyped (wrongly) and it's common knowledge that Italian is actually French. Don't tell me you don't know that

And that's why I think Kobolds should speak Afrikaans. It feels alien enough for me.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Maybe Japanese; it's not particularly closely related to any other extant language.

[Mel_Vixen]

Errr Afrikaans is a german/netherlandian (?) derivative. Just to be sure you dont mean African tribal-languages.

Actually African tribal-languages would go well with the animal people. Kobolds should speak old chinese dialects.

[WaffleEggnog]

and it's common knowledge that Italian is actually French. Don't tell me you don't know that

They are similar, very similar. Same with Spanish, they are all really similar.

[Aseaheru]

Dwarves, Gaelic
Elves... Latin?
Boids, lets go with dog.
Gobbos, some odd mix of Gaelic, Russian, German and Spanish.

[MaximumZero]

Humans: Midwest American-English (Neutral Accent)
Dwarves: English with a heavy Scottish Brogue
Elves: English, but with a fake French accent
Goblins: English, but with a fake German accent
Kobolds: Interpretive Dance

[kuki]

You are all wrong, as I am positive my dwarves are Russians if they are anything from this earth

[WaffleEggnog]

Anyone for Martian?

[Loud Whispers]

Humans: Midwest American-English (Neutral Accent)

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Kobolds should speak old chinese dialects.

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On review I'd say Kobolds speak with interpretive Dolphin, or else their language is still developing.