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Comment by Hotice2104

Common is the language spoken by the Alliance members. All Alliance characters should understand Common language. Its counterpart for the Horde is the Orcish language.
In the lore (including the RPG, novels, manga, and early games), almost all intelligent races speak Common as it is not a "human" language per se. Common is known by many races, and it is used as a universal language by most members of the races of Azeroth and Draenor. Most if not all races have at least some understanding and speak some dialect of Common. Some gnolls are said to speak with a broken Common. Dialects or languages derived or related to Common include Low Common, Gutterspeak, and Nerglish.
Because Common is a universal language known by many races, characters that have never had contact with other races are often able communicate with each other on their first meeting. Other racial languages (Orcish, Taur-ahe, Gnomish, etc,) are normally limited to their specific races, but are often learned by races that are most likely to encounter those races or read their language.
The modern "Common" seems to share words with the English language, mixed with words from an ancient tongue (actually some Welsh, Latin, and other historical languages). For example, half-ogre is the Common term for the race that is a mixture of ogre and orc ancestry, whereas mok'nathal (lower-case) is the Orcish term for the same race. At least two known dialects of true Common exist, a modern dialect, which relies more on English, and the "ancient tongue", from which the modern Common is derived.

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Comment by 246065

All the Alliance races know this language by default.

This makes the language pretty ... non-rare.

Comment by 748840

Bur is lol in Common. They also use much the same words. Examples are "ruff" and "noth".

Just thought I'd throw that out there.

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