Talk:Grounders/@comment-28398720-20170322045100/@comment-34891481-20180417200107

Lincoln told Octavia in season 1 that only their warriors knew English.

Also with the commanders spirit being an artificial intelligence passed down from Bekka...it makes sense. Total sense. They obviously communicated with Bekka in English and every commander since. The grounders had probably developed their own form of communication before Bekka came down.

Not to mention alot of the grounders language sounds like slang english. Be quiet basically sounds like shut up. Get knocked down sounds like get smacked down. Unchain him or let him go sounds like break him out. It doesn't take alot of Imagination to create a language based on harsh uncivilized English and slang.