REVISED ARMY/NATIONALITY/NATIVE LANGUAGE LIST

The following tables contain revised and expanded lists of possible native languages for characters.
All languages are rolled for with percentile dice.
In almost all cases, possession of a second native language indicates ethnic/cultural identity (i.e. if
you're American character speaks Cantonese, he is probably a Chinese immigrant or the descendant of
the same). There can be exceptions to this generalization (in the previous example, perhaps the
character is the child of missionaries, for instance, who spent much of his childhood in Taiwan or
China). In either case, this should be explained or clarified during character generation.
Note that non-Russian Soviet soldiers receive varying degrees of skill in Russian as part of their
military service and background. I think this rule was omitted from ver. 2.x, but it will be familiar to
First Edition players.
For games set in Korea/East Asia I feel the same rule for non-Russian Soviets should be applied
to KATUSAs ("Koreans Attached to US Army").

EUROPEAN THEATER NATIONALITY LIST

ARMY NATIONALITY LANGUAGE

English
United States American
(15% Spanish)
(2% Arabic)
(2% German)
(2% Hindi)
(2% Italian)
(1% Cambodian)
(2% Cantonese)
(2% Swahili or other African)
(2% Tamil)
(1% Farsi)
(1% Greek)
(1% Hebrew)
(1% Korean)
(1% Navaho or other Native American)
(1% Polish)
(1% Thai)
(1% Vietnamese)
(1% Yiddish)
German
(3% Czech)
Austrian Austria
(3% Hungarian)
(3% Italian)
French
Belgium Wallonian
(50% Flemish)
Flemish
Flemish
(50% French)
British English English
Anglo-Caribbean English
English
Welsh
(20% Welsh)
English
Scottish
(20% Scots Gaelic)
Irish English
 (20% Irish Gaelic)
English, plus one of the following:
Asian Hindu (spoken by Hindus)
Punjab (spoken by Sikhs)
Arabic (spoken by Muslims)
Cantonese (spoken by Hong Kong Chinese)
Japanese
Bulgarian
Bulgarian Bulgarian (10% Romanian)
(3% Turkish)
(3% Hungarian)
(1% Romany)
English
Canadian Anglo-Canadian
(30% French)
French
French Canadian
(30% English)
Czech
Czechoslovak Czech (10% Slovak)
(3% Hungarian)
(1% Romany)
Czech
Slovak (80% Slovak)
(3% Hungarian)
(1% Romany)
Danish Danish Danish
Finnish Finnish Finnish
Finnish
Lapp
(80% Saami [Lapp])
German German German
Turkish
Turkish (Gastarbeiter)
80% German
Greek Greek Greek
Hungarian
Hungarian Hungarian (3% German)
(2% Romany)
Italian
Italian Italian (3% German)
(3% French)
(2% Serbo-Croatian)
Dutch
Netherlands Dutch
(10% Frisian)
Indonesian
Indonesian
(80% Dutch)
Norwegian Norwegian Norwegian
Norwegian
Lapp
[70% Saami (Lapp)]
Polish Polish Polish
Romanian
Romanian Romanian (5% Hungarian)
(3% Romany)
Soviet Russian Russian
 Ukrainian
Byelorussian
Uzbek
Tatar
Kazakh
Azerbaijani Native Language +
Armenian LGN (Russian) = to 1d10 x 5 (enlisted) or 1d10 x10 for
Georgian officers (FIRST EDITION)
Lithuanian
Romanian
Latvian
Chuvash
Estonian
Kyrgyz
Mordvinian
Tajiki
Turkoman
Sweden Swedish Swedish
Swedish
Lapp
(80% Saami [Lapp])
Turkish Turkish Turkish
Kurdish
Kurdish
(30% Turkish)

MIDDLE-EASTERN LANGUAGES TABLE

Iran Iranian Farsi
Kurdish, Lur, Bakhtiari, Tribal Language
Qashqai, and Baluchi (30% Farsi)
Hebrew
Israel Israeli
(20% English)
(20% Yiddish)
(2% German)
(2% Polish)
Beta Israeli/Felash Amharic
(Ethiopian Jewry) (50% Hebrew)
Russian
Russian
(30% Hebrew)
Jordan Jordanian Arabic
Kuwaiti Kuwaiti Arabic
Saudi Saudi Arabian Arabic
Syria Syrian Arabic
[See European Table
Turkish
Above]

FAR EAST/KOREAN THEATER

ARMY NATIONALITY LANGUAGES
Mandarin (northern Mandarin
China
Chinese) (30% Cantonese)
Cantonese (southern Cantonese
 Chinese) (30% Mandarin)
Japanese
Japan Japanese
(1% Ainu)
Japanese
Korean
(80% Korean)
North Korean Korean Korean
Korean
South Korean Korean (KATUSAs receive English as per Soviet ethnic
languages).

NEW LANGUAGES
AINU: Spoken by the aboriginal inhabitants of the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, Ainu is
spoken by a very small minority in modern day Hokkaido (perhaps as many as 25,000 speakers). Its
relation to other languages is not entirely clear.
FRISIAN: Spoken by Frieslanders (or the Fries), a fairly large ethnic minority in the north -eastern
Netherlands and coastal regions of western Germany. In the Netherlands, Frieslanders are a recognized
ethnic minority, with Frisian language schools and other legal protection. Frisian is a Western
Germanic language, though in reality it is also closely related to English (it is the closest surviving
relative of English).
SAAMI: Spoken by Lapplanders in northern Scandinavia.