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** Infernal and Abyssal are the native tongues of devils and demons, respectively. They have no special properties, but probably include an impressive array of curse words. Specifically the Abyssal is said to suffer from an unfortunate yet inevitable side effect of being the language of Chaotic and particularly uncooperative creatures - it's not as much a language as a broad language group, since each community of the fiends using it ends up developing its own dialect, which eventually drifts more and more from the one used a few layers away. Being regularly misunderstood presumably contributes to their bad attitude.
*** One source mentions Mabrahoring, or High Infernal, an archaic form of Infernal that is only spoken by Hell's nobility.
** Yugoloths also have their unique language, which is said to remind listeners of the stench of decaying roses and the whisper of wind blowing across the sand. Given how they live on deception and manipulation of others, every word has more than one meaning, and a yugoloth is able to convey two different messages to different individuals at the same time by carefully chooosing its words. Most often, only their rulers can do this; less intelligent members of the race like mezzoloths and dergholoths have as much trouble understanding this method of speech as mortals do.
** In the first edition of the game, [[Lawful Evil]], [[Neutral Evil]], and [[Chaotic Evil]] alignments had their own languages understandable only to people of the same alignment. When played at all, they tended to get played like Black Speech.
** There's also Draconic, the language of dragons and magic.
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