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IIRC, Jordan mentioned somewhere that the Old Tongue was a very complex and sophisticated language? And that the modern language is a degenerated form ... which is supposedly why it's easy for the Forsaken to learn the common tongue, while the Old Tongue is much more difficult to learn for...

What's really interesting is that the Old Tongue is what's viewed as an ancient language that you can't understand. If the language under Hawkwing was basically the same as spoken in the books' time, but during the Trolloc Wars they spoke the Old Tongue (iirc) ... then the language must've...