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I can't find any notion (at least without spending a whole lot of time digging) about what "high languages" are outside of computer code. So I must ask - can you clarify?
By high language do you mean that only the upper classes speak it?

It appears that Dhimmitude is the practice of making non-muslims second-class citizens?

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I may not in fact be able to post tonight, though. :( This work is taking much longer than I'd hoped.

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Wait, really? Greek? Now that's a little confusing. So is Greek more widespread than Arabic?

Should we just settle on Latin, then?

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Regardless, I'll try and post tonight. I can't promise a timeframe - I've got a lot of studying to do tonight. Composition midterm is due tomorrow and an algebra quizz too. P:

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It would not be implausible for Hayate to know french, given his association with what amounts to a French empire in modern-day England. But Mordecai and Marduk aren't going to know French.

Nobody but Rhiannon ought to know Welsh.

Hebrew of course is isolated to Mordecai.

Any one of them might have been exposed to Greek because of its prominence in the ancient world.

Arabic is also a decent option, because it's not impossible that the foreigners would learn some Arabic before visiting Jerusalem.

I'm not really sure about Latin. What's the influence of Latin culture at this point? The Western Roman Empire has collapsed, after all.

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Well at least Rhiannon can communicate with the crusaders?
What about greek? Wasn't greek kinda the international language of the day, what with the byzantine empire floating around?
Not that a bunch of country yokels would know it. :L.

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Oh crap, what language is everybody speaking? Does Hayate speak middle-English? Rhiannon speaks Welsh? Marduk speaks Arabic? Mordecai speaks Hebrew and possibly Arabic, I'd assume?

...We probably need to decide on a common language.

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Thanks, Jinx! That clears things up a little bit.
Seems like the ancient world was playing hot-potato with Jerusalem. xD.

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The IC is up! Wow, it's been a long time since I wrote one of those. Hope it gives you enough to work with! It's a little hard to write anything terribly specific for a whole city~

Also, Jinxer, the more I try to research the subject, the more I get confused. Would you happen to know exactly what was going on with the leadership of Jerusalem at the time? Some sources I've read from claim that it was ruled by the Seljuk turks until 1098, when the Fatimid dynasty of Egypt conquered the city in order to protect it from the crusaders. Or something like that.

Yet as I was reading up on other miscellaneous tidbits, it mentions the fatimids building a mosque in Jerusalem like thirty or forty years before that, and I think I saw something else stating that the city had been in Egyptian hands much longer. I couldn't tell you WHERE I read this, since I've had a lot of trouble tracking down just where I found any individual piece of information to verify it. But I'm very confused.
xD.

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Half-assed, but I've done worse.