^This. If I recall correctly there was even a blue post on it some years ago which was along the lines of âThe language of the server is encouraged, but by no means a requirement, it is however the language support is provided inâ.
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This.
Also want to add, that sometimes other language realms are sharded with âenglishâ realms. For example in Dragonblight/Ghostlands we can see people from Italian pve server all the time, so while we share same trade chat some of us are playing on âenglishâ realm and some on âitalianâ realm. Would be problematic to demand one language in that situation, when everyone is talking language of their own realm. 
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I have never seen a language requirement in local chat or in any of the chat channels. A guild of course may have a language requirement. I know that on my horde alt, the guild I am in requires english for guild chat and our discord chat.
The Russian, Spanish, Italian [puzzling in the first place] and Portuguese [itâs actually Brazilian Portuguese] servers got connected to the English realms because they couldnât support their own âlanguage regionâ.
You wont find German or French realms unless they have grouped with players.
Yeah this is what i understood too. I was just trying to make point, that someone might be thinking âhey that player is talking other language on english serverâ while they are just sharded together (because of this connection) and are actually playing on their own server.
I have a feeling realms dont really exist now, at leats not as we know them.
I was waiting for the quasi-mega server announcement for BfA but maybe 9.0.
Thinking the same. I just wish they would bring it all the way and have shared Ah and guilds too.
I think the AH is the only stumbling block, and storage.
Communities are cross realm guilds-light, not much extra to a guild really.
Iâm sure they are working on new AH as they have mentioned it and rarely talk about stuff they arenât working on to manage expectations.
I doubt the character database is much of a hurdle but I suppose it would also need to get worked on.
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Indeed the language of a realm is more of a guideline than a rule, although you may feel more comfortable playing in one youâre able to communicate with other players.
As for the support language used, this actually follows your communication preferences from the Account Management page, regardless of your realm.
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Wait, what? You offer support in Thai?
There has always been this âunwritten ruleâ that a guild ad was okay in native tongue, but otherwise you speak english in global channels, and keep your own language in /wâs.
I donât know if I ever found it odd, lol I just adapted to that mindset 
Regionally supported languages only. My bad 
I play on a French server, with english Client. All the processes and the help windows were in English, and now youâre telling me iâve wrote reports and request in English but they were received by the French support team ?
Could be useful to add a notice about what language the support team receiving the report speaks. Or thereâs already one and iâve been an idiot for over ten years.
I only can imagine right now those english people who wanted to report the spanish guys talking in the chat.
Lo siento amigos 
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Donât over do it, but even in SW or Borlaus you now get sharded (due to low number of players) with people otuside your own server or cluster. Last nigth we had reports (of rares) in 5 lanquages: German, Italian, Russian, French and English. ALL AT THE SAME TIME!
Runetotem is also known as half-Dutch and half-English server. Never be suprised you will sometimes witness short converstaions or jokes in /1 or /2 in Dutch. Nobody has a problem with it unless it just keeps going on and on. Especially Belgium and Dutch players takes jabs at each other with inside jokes, in Dutch.
donât worry you canât read chat anyway, 15k people will be spamming trade and LFG chat. because Layering and mega servers are true classic experience =)
nope, people can speak whatever language they want in any channel
They can, but people will still comment on it⌠if they can see it that is. I doubt anybody would notise these days with all the boost spammers lol
Can I speak gibberish? I definitely will be much more interesting than the guy who sells M+ and Azshara kill loot guaranteed.
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