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Is it bad to use real languages?
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I've been building my world for a while, and I've been using real world languages for the different races in my world, languages like Irish, Welsh, Navajo, Arabic, etc. But recently I've been told that using real languages is lazy and can be considered cultural appropriation.

Is that true?

[Edit] Thank you all for the replies. And for those who've been asking, my world has history with Earth, that's the lore reason for using irl languages, the personal reason is that I love languages and I'm using world building to help myself and others try and learn other languages.

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