Speak another language
Your character speaks one language at a time.
In the menus: ESC → Character → Current → the Speaking: row
Set the language you speak
- Select the Speaking: row on the LANGUAGES rail.
- Select a language from the SPEAK popup.
Only languages your character already knows are listed.
Understand what others are saying covers how they come by a new one.
Every character starts on basic. Choosing a second language in the creation wizard teaches it, it does not start you speaking it.
What everyone else reads
Anyone who understands you reads the line whole, with the language named in front:
Everyone else gets the same number of words in Huttese, drawn at random and rerolled every time you speak:
Typing a language name
Look up a language lists all 71 shipped languages and their stored names.
Basic appears in your known languages and the SPEAK popup. Every character knows it, and it never garbles.
Your server admin can also add a custom language. Its stored name takes 1 to 30 letters, and it garbles from a shared fallback bank.
Things to note
- OOC, actions and comlink messages (currently) skip the language system.
Prefer the console?
The SPEAK popup holds 12 rows and a character can know 15, so the console is the only way to reach the last few.