Is bilingualism common in your nation?

[Lydenburg]

Quite so. An overwhelming majority of citizens are bilingual, the common instance being fluency in two or more tribal tongues.

Of course, as any man will tell you the army has a language of it's own:

"Troep! Ek gaan jou opvok! Ek sal in jou neusgat invlieg en op jou hart kak! Vir wie loer jy troep? Jy is laer as slangkak se skaduwee in die woestyn! Ek issie daai hoer by die huis nie! As ek jou opvok, gaan hulle my uit die army smyt. Ek sal dan vir jou by daardie hekkie wag, en jou weer opvok!"

[Norsaksenia]

Of course, if you look at my Factbook, my nation's official language are Norsaksenian and German.

[Imperium Sidhicum]

Although the average Sidh doesn't have much use of foreign languages and universal translators are widely available, many choose to learn at least one nonetheless. Learning a language is a way of exercising the mind and improving oneself, which is what being a Sidh is all about.

Good command of at least one human language is a requirement in the Imperial military out of practical reasons, i.e., to be able to interrogate prisoners, read captured enemy documents and equipment manuals, and boss around conquered human civilians. This means that every Sidh who has earned full citizenship knows at least one human language. Skargh language is also an option, although difficult to learn without proper vocal augmentation - due to anatomical differences, a human or Sidh will find it nearly-impossible to pronounce Skargh words correctly.

Learning languages is considerably easier for a Sidh due to availability of linguistic neural softwares that "implant" knowledge of the language in one's mind on a subconscious level. Having a considerably higher intelligence than the average human, a Sidh will only have to hear and speak a word once or twice to memorize it and it's proper pronounciation. Proper mastery of a language still takes practice though - while a Sidh may very quickly memorize the language itself and be able to comprehend what is said or written in it, it will still take regular practice before he can write poems in that tongue. Still, a Sidh will usually learn in a month what takes a year or more for a human.

Most Sidh polyglots don't in fact speak these languages very well, since they normally have hardly any interaction with non-Sidhae, so their language skills are reserved mostly for the reading of old Terran classics in original languages. In other words, they can read and write a lot better than they can speak.

[Matululu Isles]

In rural areas only a few people know the english fluently, others there just know a few words of it, and mostly it's all things like "hello" "no" and "yes". When you are in urban areas, if you want to climb up the food chain (literally) you've got to know english because in the moment Matululu Isles live on the foreign money while the government is trying to establish a source of income to get off the stone age.

[Veceria]

Kinda, yeah. Most adults speak both German and English fluently, plus the native Vecerian language.

[Baravia]

Yes, bilingualism is common in Baravia, but usually the citizens speak many languages because the Baravian Empire stretches around the world.

[Sircassia (Ancient)]

Yes, though only recently. People of various linguistic groups began to mix with each other in what later became our country in the mid-17th century. By the late 18th century, most of these groups had lost their native tongue and taken to speaking the common language of the wider society (Russian). In this way, Georgians, Azeris, Armenians, Chechens, Ingush, Tabasarans, and others lost their languages. When Tatars and Ukrainians began to immigrate into our land in the mid 19th century, they soon found themselves mixing into the society and losing their languages as well by the 1920s. Since the 1960s, the Soviets encouraged us to learn English in order to be able to challenge others on a world scale. Since independence in 1991, English proficiency has increased dramatically, and in 2009 English was declared a second official language (to Russian).

[Anonymous Islands]

To most people it is too much of a hassle to learn one language properly.

Bilingualism is almost only found among people of immigrant background.

[Yaramaqui]

Yes. Bilingualism and Also Trilingualism are common in my nation. All of the people in my land speak at least 3 languages though. It has been like this since 1300 B.C.

[Arumdaum]

yeah sure why not

[Estado Paulista]

It is not common. However, Italian, German and Lithuanian are commonly spoken in the most secluded towns in the country, where the majority of the people descent from immigrants from these nations.

[Mechacercradonia]

Yes, in today's time. Back then, Mechacercradonia only spoke one language, Cycloughphygish, an alien language using numbers and pictographs. Here is a passage written in Cycloughphygish:

Written Cycloughphygish: 92, 52131126161255 8244 52826 12 6587!

Pronounced: Mye Dah-mah-the-who-jah fon-gh nerr-heh-sai-jaccai-de-barl.

English: We, Mechacercradons will never be prisoners of war!

Now, due to negotiations with the "A"lliance and vice versa, English has became Mechacercradonia's second language.



Here are the phonics of written Cycloughphygish:
1= A,B,C
2= D,E,F
3= G,H,I
4= J,K,L
5= M,N,O
6= P,Q,R
7= S,T,U
8= V,W,X
9= Y,Z

[Englar Empire]

Nope. Englarians have a well-deserved reputation for monolingualism.

[Grand Russian Federation]

Bilingualism isn't common, because trilingualism is way more common.

[Breheim]

The majority of Breheimians know a bit of another language (russian, english and runit being the most common ones), but only around 15% can claim to be fluent in more than one language (mostly english, with russian and runit being second and third respectively). Trilingualism is even rarer.

[Midwest Africa]

The people of Midwest Africa speak English and or French/ Arabic.

[El Kuduro]

Spanish is the national language. A significant portion of the population are also fluent in Portuguese and English. There are minorities of people who also speak French and German. However, the average Kuduran speaks 2-3 languages.

[Rejistania]

The average rejistani speaks his native language, has a decent grasp on rejistanian and knows some English, spoken with a horrible accent. In addition, sometimes enough of the adjacent native language is spoken to communicate.

[Sanian Confederacy]

English and Equestrian are the two most commonly spoken languages throughout the Confederacy and it's constituent states, such that most people easily speak both bilingually and the rest pick up on one or the other in their time here enough to at least rudimentally communicate in it.

[Peace and Progress]

Almost everyone speaks Spanish and roughly half of the population speaks some English.

[Cyllea]

All Cyllean citizens are required to know Cyllean and English. Many citizens, however, take it further and learn 1 or 2 other languages. The most common languages for citizens to learn besides Cyllean and English are Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Portuguese and German.
We have a 98.5% bilingualism rate for Cyllean and English, a 72% trilingualism rate and a 46% quadrilingualism rate. Only 12% of our population know 5 or more languages.

[Dorab (Ancient)]

Yes and technically required. Since the 1970s the government has found it necessary to impose English as a mandatory second language.

[Walhammra]

Most people in Walhammra speaks at least three languages to various degrees of fluency. The great diversity of the people makes it a requirement and the communes recognizes five official languages, although Hemmian is steadily taking a more and more dominant role as lingua franca.

[Pinewald]

Pinewald is a mix of three cultures-

British-Wheatian English language.
German-Tautonian German, a more guttural version of the main type of German spoken in Germany.
French-Margotian French, French.

[Euronion]

trilingualism is the norm with quadlingualism being extremely common. Euronion citizens are fluent in Euronion, English, and Latin (the student has a choice of learning either archaic, clerical, or classical Latin). Quadlinguals are generally fleunt in either two forms of latin or have learned the primary language of one of our neighbors.