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Languages

Source Player Core pg. 89 ^2.0
Your ancestry entry states which languages you know at 1st level. Typically, this means you can both speak and read these languages. Having a positive Intelligence modifier grants a number of additional languages equal to your Intelligence modifier. You can choose these languages from the list presented in your character's ancestry entry and from those available from your region or ethnicity. Ask your GM if there's a language you want to select that isn't on these lists.

The languages presented here are grouped according to how common they are throughout the Inner Sea region. Languages that are common are regularly encountered around the Inner Sea, even among those who aren't native speakers. Languages that are uncommon (see the Uncommon Languages table and Regional Languages) are most frequently spoken by native speakers, but they are also spoken by certain scholars and others interested in the associated cultures.

Many uncommon languages are spoken by natives of other planes who rarely appear near the Inner Sea unless summoned. Mortals learning these languages might spend a lifetime without meeting a native speaker.

It is possible for your character to learn languages later in their adventuring career. Selecting the Multilingual feat, for example, grants a character two new languages chosen from those listed below. If your Intelligence changes later on, you also adjust your number of languages accordingly. Other abilities and effects might grant access to common or uncommon languages, as detailed in their descriptions. Rare or secret languages can only be discovered through play

^R Language is a regional language