Anglic
The official language of the Third
Imperium. A distant descendent of Terran English, Anglic was the
language of the Rule of Man (-2204 to
-1776). Anglic remained a common interstellar language for trade
and commerce during the Long Night. Its widespread use on the original
worlds of the Third Imperium made it the natural language when the
Imperium was established.
On many worlds, Anglic is only a second language used for system traffic control, commercial
operations, and interstellar communications. Anglic is sometimes
called Galanglic (for Galactic
Anglic).
The Imperium has not been able to prevent the emergence of a wide
variety of Anglic dialects. Interstellar communications,
holocrystals, and recordings
help to spread a uniform pronunciation of Anglic throughout the entire
Imperium.
Within the Imperium, any Anglic speaker can understand almost any
other, but isolated communities on worlds with little contact with the
interstellar
trade lanes shift their speech patterns to form dialects. In
addition,
broad areas within the Imperium have established their own
pronunciation patterns;
accepted dialects include Rim (which includes Terra), Core (the
central
region of the Imperium), Riftian (the spinward frontiers), and
Transform (the Antares region).
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