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He nods and asks with some curiosity in his eyes, "Are there any dialects of languages similar to ours?"

"Not that I can think of. The Ujik have imported some words from Rokugan, but their grammar is fundamentally different. From my talks with the Shiba, I would say the tribes speaking some variant of Rokugani are more easily found at the northern border of Rokugan than on its western.

Likely, the double barrier of the mountains and the desert was too much of a restriction for exchanges, including of a linguistic nature, until Lady Shinjo opened the path all these centuries ago."