Thorass language

Thorass, or Old Common, was an old human language, the direct ancestor of Common. It was a pidgin variant of Chondathan that western Faerûnian traders developed to communicate with their counterparts in other lands.

There is a great deal of evidence that Thorass is derived in part from older incarnations of Jotun, the language of giants, along with other unknown (probably Jhaamdathan) influences.

An unknown scribe eventually developed a written alphabet for Thorass. Thorass is now a dead language (meaning that nobody speaks it on a daily basis anymore), but the alphabet survives, and is now used in languages such as Common, Chessentan, Rashemi, and Uluik.

An inscription in Thorass will translate directly into Common, though it will often have a stilted and archaic form of phrasing and vocabulary. Thorass has a base 10 numbering system.