1 In general Language specialities should be accents. The only people
2 without accents as specialities are:
4 * Excellent speakers of the language who have worked to remove their accent.
5 * Very poor speakers of the language who mostly know stuff in a
6 topical area (viz a normal specialization).
7 * People who've learned a language entirely academically without using
8 it on natives. (They might have an entirely inappropriate accent
9 specialization; but in general they'll be assumed to have an accent
10 related to their native tongue).
12 Various different dialects are inter-understandable. The table below
13 gives modifiers for understanding. If not listed below two dialects of the same
14 language are at -1. The table is far from complete...
16 | |Breton|Cornish|English|French||| German |||||Greek||Hebrew|Italian|Kipchak|Latin|Lingua|Occitan|Oghur|Oghuz|Veneto|Vlach|Welsh|Norse|
17 | | | | |AN|No|Ot|Hi|Yi|Fr|Sa|Ot|Ro|Cl | | | | |Franca| | | | | | | |
18 |----------------------:|:----:|:-----:|:-----:|::|::|::|::|::|::|::|::|::|:-:|:----:|:-----:|:-----:|:---:|:-----|:-----:|:---:|:---:|:----:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
19 | Breton | 0 | -1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | -2 | |
20 | Cornish | -1 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
21 | English | | | 0 | | | |-4|-4|-2|-3|-3| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
22 | French (Anglo-Norman) | | | | 0|-1|-1| | | | | | | | | | | | | -2 | | | -2 | | | |
23 | French (Norman) | | | |-1| 0|-1| | | | | | | | | | | | | -2 | | | -2 | | | |
24 | French (Other) | | | |-1|-1| 0| | | | | | | | | | | | | -2 | | | -2 | | | |
25 | German, High | | | -4 | | | | 0|-1|-2|-2|-2| | | | | | | | | | | | | | -4 |
26 | German, High (Yiddish)| | | -4 | | | |-1| 0|-2|-2|-2| | | -2 | | | | | | | | | | | -4 |
27 | German, Low (Frisian) | | | -2 | | | |-2|-2| 0|-1|-1| | | | | | | | | | | | | | -3 |
28 | German, Low (Saxon) | | | -3 | | | |-2|-2|-1| 0|-1| | | | | | | | | | | | | | -2 |
29 | German, Low (Other) | | | -3 | | | |-2|-2|-1|-1| 0| | | | | | | | | | | | | | -3 |
30 | Greek, Romaic | | | | | | | | | | | | 0|-2 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
31 | Greek, Classical | | | | | | | | | | | |-2| 0 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
32 | Hebrew | | | | | | | |-2| | | | | | 0 | | | | | | | | | | | |
33 | Italian | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0 | | -3 | | | | | -3 | | | |
34 | Kipchak | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0 | | | | -2 | -2 | | | | |
35 | Latin | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | -2 | | 0 | | | | | | -3 | | |
36 | Lingua Franca | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0 | -2 | | | | | | |
37 | Occitan | | | |-2|-2|-2| | | | | | | | | | | | -2 | 0 | | | | | | |
38 | Oghur | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | -2 | | | | 0 | -2 | | | | |
39 | Oghuz | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | -2 | | | | -2 | 0 | | | | |
40 | Veneto | | | |-2|-2|-2| | | | | | | | | -3 | | | -2 | | | | 0 | | | |
41 | Vlach | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | -3 | | | | | | 0 | | |
42 | Welsh | -2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0 | |
43 | Norse, West | | | | | | |-4|-4|-3|-2|-3| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
44 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |