Library Data:Anglic
The official language of the Third Imperium. A distant descendant of Terran English, Anglic was the language of the Rule of Man (-2294 to -1776). Anglic remained a common interstellar language for trade and commerce during the Long Night. Its widespread use on the original worlds of the Third Imperium made it the natural language when the Imperium was established. [1]
On many worlds, Anglic is only a second language used for system traffic control, commercial operations, and interstellar communications. Anglic is sometimes called Galanglic (for Galactic Anglic).[1]
The Imperium has not been able to prevent the emergence of a wide variety of Anglic dialects. Interstellar communications, holocrystals, and recordings help to spread a uniform pronunciation of Anglic throughout the entire Imperium. Within the Imperium, any Anglic speaker can understand almost any other speaker, but isolated communities on worlds with limited contact with the interstellar trade lanes shift their speech patterns to form dialects. In addition, broad areas within the Imperium have established their own pronunciation patterns; accepted dialects include Rim (which includes Terra), Core (the central region of the Imperium), Riftian (the spinward frontiers), and Transform (the Antares region).[1]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Loren Wiseman. GURPS Traveller Core Rules (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 20.
Other References
- Gary L. Thomas. Grand Census (Digest Group Publications, 1987), 8.
- Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 17.
- Marc Miller. Players' Manual (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 33.
- Marc Miller. Agent of the Imperium (Far Future Enterprises, 2015), 188. (v1.1 - Annotated)
- Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 119.
- Christopher Griffen. The Third Imperium (Mongoose Publishing, 2021), 4.