Civil Tongue
The Civil Tongue was the City of the Saved's main language. Variants such as Gestural Civil and Radiant Civil existed for those who communicated non-verbally, and had equal universal intelligibility.(PROSE: Of the City of the Saved... [+]Loading...["Of the City of the Saved... (novel)"])
When J. R. R. Tolkien was resurrected in the City of the Saved. He served as a philologist on a Royal Philological Society team with Florence Briscoe and Adoma Achede to uncover the mystery of the Jama'a Civil Tongue. Tolkien was surprised to realise they'd incorporated The Lord of the Rings into their myth cycle. (PROSE: Philology: The Real Professional Bag of Tricks [+]Loading...["Philology: The Real Professional Bag of Tricks (short story)"])