I actually wouldn't be surprised if the unified language originated from the Air Nomads. Like, we know they have magic flying bison, and they're nomads, so it would make sense that their language got around quite a bit, and if anyone decided to impose a worldwide language it would make sense for it to be that one. Or it could well have started more than a hundred years ago, I suppose -- if it did, Old Fire could quite reasonably have stuck around at least a little bit, as an influence and in old poems if nothing else. (cf. things like . . . idk, Scottish Gaelic.) Same for all the various languages in the Earth Kingdom and Water Tribes, although I don't know enough to correlate them directly with any real-world languages the way Old Fire = Japanese. (This fic is totally going to drive me into Asian Literature Studies as a major, isn't it?)
. . . It wouldn't help if I told you that this was originally intended to be a fic about Zuko and Iroh continuing to run their tea-shop, would it. |D
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Date: 2010-09-29 05:10 pm (UTC). . . It wouldn't help if I told you that this was originally intended to be a fic about Zuko and Iroh continuing to run their tea-shop, would it. |D