I think I would love to learn and to [b]use/b] a whole new language in a game !
But that's my own taste ... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />
The egyptians used symbold for sillables (right spelled ?) and for words as well. Even more, they could mix it ! Their language was a language that was / is a relative to arabic and hebraic (right spelled ?) languages; I don't remember the english word for this group of languages.
The Maya did the same witrh their "symbols" - and in a more "extreme" or "sophistoicated" way than the egyptions, because they mixed the symbols as well !