Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6493589-20150619172544/@comment-24891101-20150620212818

What? How could species developing on opposite sides of a planet possibly have a unified language? The odds are transastronomically unlikely. More likely, there are many, many languages, but the language of Equestria is lingua franca, on account of the living gods in charge. The people with which they interact are mostly within that nation, and are therefore likely to speak their language, since they don't really interact with tourists. Other factors to consider are such things as translation spells and similar, whether cast by a character or passively suffusing an area. As to Tirek, he is likewise a living god, and so there are metaphysics at work.