Starting languagesFollow

Does anyone have a list or other resource that gives the starting language skill for each race? I'm trying to compile a list of the languages that each race starts with and rather than creating a new character from each race and checking their skills, I thought I would check here first and perhaps save myself some trouble. Thanks!

Not sure. There is this languages page on this site (not sure how old it is though).

My understanding is that every race starts with it's own language at 100, and common at 100. All other languages will start at 0. If there are any languages that start higher then that, they'll start at the same level for everyone.

I think that the only exception for this is that rogues get thieves cant at some starting level.

hm, might be easier to start 16 new chars, skip tutorial and simply write the stats down... or?

If I recall correctly my old troll didn't start at 100 in common.

I might be delusional though.

Thanks Kajolus! That's 2 less throwaways I have to create this weekend!

I have a bunch of lvl 1 characters on a server I don't play on. Lemme check.

Gnome - Common and Gnomish 100, Dwarvish 41. Interesting. I would have thought gnomes would speak a little elvish too, but I guess they are closer to Kaladim. This was a Gnomish Shadowknight I checked, so evil gnomes don't know Dark Speech.

Ogre - Ogre 100, Dark Speech 100, Common 95. I would have thought Ogres would speak a little Lizardman. They are all over Feerrott.

Erudite - Common and Erudian 100. That's it. This was an Erudite Necromancer I checked, so evil Erudites do not know Dark Speech. I guess only the exclusively dark races can speak it.

Iksar - Dark Speech and Lizardman 100. Common 95. This was a lvl 19 iksar, but he had soloed to there so I think these are the starting stats for Iksar.

Half Elf - Common and Elvish 100. That's it. This character's home city was Surefall Glade. I don't know if Half Elves starting in Kelethin have different ones.

The other characters on this server were Drakkin and Dark Elf, which were already covered.

Edited, Jan 4th 2008 7:46pm by mfbrownbear

Thanks for all the help guys. I went ahead and created new characters of my own and here is what I found. All races start with 100 in Common, with the exception (as mentioned above) of Ogres, Trolls, and Iksar which start a few points shy of 100. All races start with 100 in their racial language. I've left that data out of the below list, except in the case of the Half-Elf and Iksar where there is a tad bit of ambiguity about the racial language. If a race isn't listed below, then it doesn't know languages other than Common and it's racial language. I'll post this in the language thread too. Let me know if you notice any errors.

Dark Elf: Elvish (54), Elder Elvish (54), Dark Speech (100)
Drakkin: Dragon (100), Elder Dragon (100)
Dwarves: Gnomish (25)
Frogloks: Troll (42)
Gnomes: Dwarvish (54)
Half-Elves: Elvish (100)
High Elves: Dark Elvish (51), Elder Elvish (51)
Iksar: Lizardman (100), Dark Speech (100)
Ogres: Dark Speech (100)
Trolls: Dark Speech (100)
Vah Shir: Erudian (32), Combine (100)

Also, Rogues start with Thieves Cant at a skill of 100.

Edited, Jan 7th 2008 11:56am by VWDiesel

I think that once you have maxed skills in all languages you can give yourself the title of Cunning Linguist.