Ruminate Family of Languages

The Ruminate family of languages includes:

• Bovine? -- a very simple language used by cows.
  • developmental level -- 13
• Asinine? -- used by donkeys, asses and mules.
  • developmental level -- 32
  • used as a pidgin by all ruminates
  • most ruminates think of Common? and other trade languages as forms of Asinine
• Equine? -- used by horses (usually to boss cows around).
  • developmental level -- 41
• Centrine? -- used by centaurs.
  • developmental level -- 64
  • centaurs have developed the use of staves held in their hands to increase the number of phonemes beyond what four-footed creatures can manage
  • the most recent development is the addition of vocal speech as a kind of inflection added to the meaning of the foot and staff

See also Languages, Matter and Language Template?.

— Scotus - 24 Jul 2001