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Originally Posted by Kelly Pedersen
All of this is exactly covered by Omnilingual. It covers all "common" languages on your homeworld, but specifically excludes languages that haven't ever been studied or deciphered. So all your examples of uncontacted tribes, lost worlds, and newly-returned people from the distant past, would be things the GM could say "sorry, you don't know this one".
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It's even reasonable to say something like "They're speaking some sort of pidgin of Mongol* and Russian* with some Mandarin* loan words and a few you don't recognize, your comprehension is at Broken for at least a week till you get the swing of it, then Accented for a month, then Native**."
* Or whatever. You got the drift.
** If they also have Language Talent.