Quote Originally Posted by Chasingstars View Post
Right, and the fact they have in those 3 quests the nature of the language, written and spoken, and then also throw in the blue mage book to further emphasis the language barrier suggests its more a recent thing to have a more unified language. Which the only representative you ever speak to of the Whalaqee tribe, so far is Ceadda, who is a young boy and speaks fluently. Which we don't know how long Martyn was with them for teaching them a language. So it creates a "chicken or egg" scenario. If its pre-Martyn then the teaching of the language would be easier for him because of the Turali language being very similar for talking. If it occurs during his stay it would start off hard to teach but become easier over time with the new Turali language. If its after, then it would have just been doing it entirely from scratch where a good deal of time is just trying to teach them a language.
I don’t put much stock in the blue book about a single random tribe for telling us when Turali was picked up as a language in the rest of the kingdom. Much of India to this day speaks neither Hindi nor English which are the two “official” languages.

To me it makes much more sense that the language was created around the moment of unification 80 years ago and slowly spread out to the more connected and closer parts of Tural as a trade/official language. Especially since the whole point of Turali was for unification.

Either way I’d say it’s 50/50 as to whether the infrastructure in Shaaloani is directly Eorzean or if it’s all native. Koana is a Turali prince staying at the studium who is technologically minded and Erenville is another native of Tural working for the scholars. The former could have very well brought the technology back to his homeland and the word “bar” could be an Eorzean loanword in Turali.