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[Sedil Locunad]

I've searched around and couldn't find anything about such an obscure topic, but what language do Kobold use for their own?  There is no language_KOBOLD.txt nor is there any words in any language that resemble the words Kobold use.  Heck, my dwarfs can't figure out what "Jrayrsnin" could mean as a kingdom's name.

[Haedrian]

Do you want to have a conversastion with a kobold before you cleave its head off?   :p

As long as they scream nice...

[Asehujiko]

I think it's a mix between dwarf, human and elf. When i messed with the language files a bit, the result was random dwarven words popping up in goblin names.

[Toady One]

The kobold utterances are built using some hard-coded rules, and the words don't mean anything, though important objects like kobolds and their entities maintain the same name.  Other concepts can also have words tied to them that are fairly immutable (such as the words repeated during adv mode slay announcements).  The word-formation rules are based on things that TT and I used to say to our cats.

Eventually the rules for creating utterances will slip out into the txt files.  I also have generators for the other languages, but I check those and remove words that have the wrong tone or are too close to english words and so on.  As far as I can tell, this final verification process is the main problem with generating all of the languages from scratch.