Gob

Gob

Script	Goblin
Family	Exotic
Primary speakers	Goblins, Hobgoblins, Bugbears

Overview

Spoken by goblins, hobgoblins, and bugbears, Gob is highly structured and relies heavily on honorific speech - which makes it easy for students of the language to make innocent mistakes in how they refer to themselves or their peers. A slip in Gob can mean a slip in rank, and outsiders are forgiven less often than they hope.

Phonology & Script

Gob’s defining feature is its rigid grammar of honorifics: every address encodes the relative rank of speaker and listener. Used correctly it is a precise instrument of hierarchy; used carelessly it can cost the speaker standing. It is written in the Goblin script.

Speakers

• Goblins, Hobgoblins, and Bugbears - the three goblinoid peoples among the Twisted Races.

Appendix

Sources & Attribution

• Primary lore: editions/5e-2014/world/languages.md (Traveler’s Guide, Languages → Gob), author TrueMichato.

Languages

Languages

Languages of Thelemar

Common & Dialects	Common Lexalian Olympian Jaknian Clairnian Hubian Old Common
Exotic Tongues	Skyspeak Mictlānian Jötunn Gob Trunkodon Felis Minotaur Beastspeech
Planar & Ancient	Draconic Sylvan Stygian Primordial Celestial

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