Talk:Corpus/@comment-4013467-20140609220041/@comment-88.112.194.81-20140626182754

Theory: communications involving and comprehensible to the Tenno are rendered in English (or whatever language your client's localised for I suppose) simply in the interests of intelligibility for the *players*, and as such this means preciously little one way or the other regarding the actual "in-universe" languages involved. And it's not like a lot of their own vocabulary (eg. "syandana") had much to do with English...

Certainly while it's unclear how far in the future the game is set it ought be well Long Enough (to speak nothing of all the obvious social and cultural upheavals inbetween) for any current Earth languages to have experienced very considerable drift from their current forms, all the more so as human habitation has spread all the way to the hair-raisingly distant outer gas giants which ought to do wonders to dialectisation.