Languages

Throughout the history of Mankind's existence, language has always been our strength. Our ability to communicate in ways that have far surpassed any animal or insect allowed us to reach the stars in the first place.

Language across the occupied worlds of the Milky Way galaxy in the 32nd century has evolved significantly since our primitive existence on Earth. Whilst most of the galaxy's occupants are English speakers, other languages have managed to amalgamate into a hybrid language that is spoken in cultures and spread. Whilst there is no set name for each language as it tends to change from system to system with slight variations on words and phrases, mostly adopted from a crude mixture of English, Chinese, French, German, Indian and Russian, often mixing with non-human languages such as the native language of the Nis.

Language across the occupied worlds of the Milky Way galaxy in the 32nd century has evolved significantly since our primitive existence on Earth. Whilst most of the galaxy's occupants are English speakers, other languages have managed to amalgamate into a hybrid language that is spoken in cultures and spread. Whilst there is no set name for each language as it tends to change from system to system with slight variations on words and phrases, mostly adopted from a crude mixture of English, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Indian and Russian.

English
English is the oldest and most spoken language (From the first human colonists onward). A amalgamation of Germanic languages, French and Latin. During the 19th and 21st century it became the most widespread language spoken on the human homeworld Earth after the British empire's expansion. English in the 42nd century is spoken by most people in society that is corporate controlled; the language has been used on advertising and most products for centuries and thus it has not been forgotten.

Miner Speak
Throughout 2000 years of human colonization, mining has become a huge industry and thus required billions of workers. Most of these workers are uneducated, unskilled laborers from cities owned and controlled by the mining corporations. The infinite supply of human assets meant that corporations would breed their workers on site, most would die in the same place they were born and never see a world beyond their colony.

In order to communicate with each other, a so-called Miner Speak was formed. This Pidgin language was made from a crude mishmash the many other languages brought onto the colonies in the early years of colonization. English from advertisements and products sold to the workers by corporations would be fixed in with other languages such as Indian, Spanish, Russian and Chinese; it would also include entirely made up words. Different colonies have different variations of Miner Speak but the overall language has spread throughout the occupied worlds. Most words found in old human languages would often be misheard or misspelled, forming words that would sound almost like their old-Earth counterparts but with differences in spelling and pronunciation.

Miner speak bares a similar structure to English with Adjectives followed by a Noun then a Verb, though it will use words and phrases that are familiar to Earthen languages like English, Afrikaans, Indian, Russian and Chinese though often combined to make new words. The Miner Speak dialect sounds similar to South African and Eastern European as the languages from these former Earthen countries mixed.

Miner revolutionaries have often detested the Earthen languages as they see it as a tongue only spoken by the corporations that control them, which is one of the reasons some may use their own entirely made up language that shares very little similarity with "Miner Speak", though not many know it. A common thing that Miner revolutionaries do after they speak any sentence in an Earthen language is to spit on the ground to "clear out their mouths of filth".

Extra-Human Languages
The few extra-solar planets baring life have had ecosystems with non-intelligent life like animals that are comparable to reptiles and livestock, with very primitive communication allowing for basic survival skills such as displaying hostility and mating calls as well as co-ordination in hunting activities.

Nisin (The Nis)
The Nis were a socially advanced tribal race and have their own language, Nisin. Nisin is exclusively taught in Human schools or picked up over time, mainly to aid those working alongside Nis workers but also for socializing. Since the Nis have remarkably evolved with brains similar to humans, the integration between the 2 species has been far easier than what was anticipated prior to their discovery.

Nisin sentences are structured as Subject-Oblique-Object-Verb. For example "Mary opened the door with a key" would be "Mary with a key the door opened" when literally translated.