Galanglic

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Galangic aka Anglic (for Galactic Anglic) is the official language of the Third Imperium. A distant descendent 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. On many worlds, Galanglic is only a second language used for system traffic control, commercial operations, and interstellar communications.

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, but isolated communities on worlds with little 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).

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– Imperial Encyclopedia

– GURPS Traveller