Question about languages

[Swiftpaws the Maned Wolf]

I don't know if this has been asked, but what rarity are Pathfinder languages within Starfinder (for example dwarven or gnomish)?

[moosher12]

I'd say assume Uncommon until the upcoming Ancestry book next year says otherwise.

Dwarves, Elves, and Gnomes are a mainstay, but the 1E book treated them as being in the "Other Languages" section, alongside languages we already consider Uncommon like the planar languages.

[Xenocrat]

It honestly makes zero sense for any languages that could plausibly be put on the infosphere with a tutor program to be uncommon. That includes all the normal planar ones.

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[kaid]

Xenocrat wrote:

It honestly makes zero sense for any languages that could plausibly be put on the infosphere with a tutor program to be uncommon. That includes all the normal planar ones.

"Learn Utopian for only 50cr per month! Our realistic Nosoi holograms will prepare you for the greatest adventure after your death!"

Yes and if SF1 is a guide all major ancestries from gloarian are represented on absalom station. I think the gnomes were interesting because they were basically all bleachings if I remember but it was no longer debilitating or destructive to them.

I would also say unless a language was from some unknown alien species or on a brand new world or was incredibly ancient no language should be hard to pick up. With major info spheres it is just way to easy to access that info and the abundance of magic makes it even easier. Even if you find some ancient alien language various magics can pretty quickly sus it out to become readable/understandable.

[Christopher#2411504]

Should be automatic if you are the Ancestry and Uncommon per Regional Languages if you just live near them.

[moosher12]

kaid wrote:

I think the gnomes were interesting because they were basically all bleachings if I remember but it was no longer debilitating or destructive to them.

Not all gnomes are bleachlings, but roughly half of them or otherwise enough of a proportion to deserve a bespoke heritage are. Sometime during the gap it branched off into becoming a distinct heritage, rather than something that happens after death. Like you've got bleachlings being born bleachlings. The rest of the gnomes still are trying to fight it off.

Core Rulebook pg. 508 wrote:

Gnomes today fall into two ethnicities: feychildren and bleachlings....Bleachlings...are believed to be the descendents of those who survived the virulent gnome plague called the Bleaching, which to this day threatens to drain the color and life from any feychild gnomes who don't constantly seek out enough new experiences to retain their vibrancy. Bleachlings are typically born with monochromatic features, their palettes ranging from black and white to brown and gray. While they are usually more even-tempeted than their feychild cousins, Bleachlings have an exaggerated-but only half-deserved-reputation for dourness.

Xenocrat wrote:

It honestly makes zero sense for any languages that could plausibly be put on the infosphere with a tutor program to be uncommon. That includes all the normal planar ones.

"Learn Utopian for only 50cr per month! Our realistic Nosoi holograms will prepare you for the greatest adventure after your death!"

I mean, I can say that I've been taking online lessons to learn Japanese for years now, I'd probably still consider Japanese an Uncommon language here in the west. As Christopher above said, Uncommon becomes Common if you live near those ancestries.