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The fantasy trope that everyone of a given species shares the same language always seemed a bit funny to me.
Co-author credit on this comic to my daughter, who came up with the concept. (She makes a lot of comics about dragons, but she’s too young to share them publicly.)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca
It has real historic roots though. A common tongue isn’t unrealistic. They once used Sabir or “Frankish” where lingua franca came from, then Latin throughout Europe, now English as a global lingua franca.
If you want to do that in your games, and it works for you, go on with your bad self.
I prefer without a common language. Especially when 100% of the party speaks it.
I played in a GURPS campaign that took place in the real world. There was no restriction on languages, and even with that there were party members who had to use another member to communicate to other party members.
This is kind of a weird conversation to be having in English in a room of probably 50% non-native English speakers.