The Language of the Land

This is the equivalent of the ubiquitous "common" of standard fantasy, that language that doesn't really make sense and has never existed. ALMOST everyone knows it, and the people/creatures that don't are strange or exotic for some reason or another. In The Funhouse however, there is a fairly reasonable justification for such a language to exist. It is a ubiquitous form of communication across all of the reflections, which creatures of a certain sentience level learn naturally as a result of residing in this plane amalgamation. Nobody is exactly sure why or how this happens, and to be honest, most people aren't especially interested in why literally everyone ever automatically knows this language. Its really something that everyone except the most esoteric of scholars takes for granted, for obvious reasons. One interesting result of this magical implantation of language into everyone's brains is the fact that unlike in our world, where the more affluent are more likely to know the trade language, and those who live out in more isolated regions are likely to only speak their native tongue, here it is the reverse. This language is automatic. Learning another language takes extra work, and even education, so being able to speak the native language of a region is can be a sign of insularity, but it is by necessity an almost intentional, educated sort of insularity. As a result, it is more likely that the poor or uneducated will only speak The Language of the Land, because that is just easier, and takes much less work. On the other hand, most racial groups and ethnicities in a given reflection will still have their own language. This is known as "The Language of the People" and varies from place to place and race to race. As a result, it is unlikely for a given race to only speak one language, such as "goblin" or "gnomeish". Because that is just not how languages work, unless the speakers are for some reason supernaturally homogeneous (like perhaps the fey, or elemental beings of some sort).