Common Tongue

The Common Tongue is a brief, universal language that is well known to most of the sentient races of Somera and used to bridge language and cultural barriers between the peoples of the land when a translator is not an option.

Language
The common tongue is a very small language, only consisting of about 1,500 words and allows for only the most basic of communication between two people.

Common does not use traditional tense structure, due to its low word count. Sentences such as, "We were out swimming," or "We swam," would be "We swim early." Conversely, the future tense, such as "We will go swimming," would be, "We swim late."

There is also no traditional gender structure in Common either. Words such as "he" and "she" do not exist. Instead, the language uses a uni-gender word, "Hai" which is used for all instances of gender words. "Him" "Her" "His" "Its" and so forth, are all replaced with "Hai."

The final large distinction is the limit of syllables. Common tongue has very few words with three syllables, and next to no words with four syllables. One and two syllable words are the most common of the very small language.