Fuzzy Teenage Bunny
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In Opusculum, speaking multiple language is a necessity for a traveling merchant--as it truly was required historically during the Middle Ages. Between Qamar and his father, they speak Andalusian Arabic, Maghrebi Arabic, Catalan, Occitan, French, Latin, and the Language of the Birds.
-Andalusian Arabic is now extinct, having died out at the end of the Reconquista that forced the Moslems out of Spain for the final time.
-Maghrebi Arabic is still spoken along the northwestern coast of Africa, in Morocco, Algeria, over to Syria and such.
-Catalan is the official language of Andorra currently, and still spoken in passing in Spain.
-Occitan is similar to Catalan and found commonly in southern France, spoken in the provinces of Aquitaine, Midi-Pyrenees, and Languedoc.
-French and Latin should obviously be still spoken widely and a dead language.
-The Language of the Birds was the secretive language of metaphors and code used by alchemists during the Middle Ages to obscure their works from laymen.