Re: P5P-82Z: New Bayou
"Not necessarily," Vektar says through Wright, "Leaders might know it, but the people won't have been taught it. It also depends on how many Jaffa there are. If there were a lot of Jaffa, then the people would have been forced to learn their language rather than making all of the Jaffa learn the local language."
"Remember, if this planet is being run by a previously unknown system lord, which the Jaffa would seem to indicate, then they may control more than one system, so the Jaffa wouldn't be required to learn all of them."
"As it is, Earth has some 250 languages. No Jaffa could have ever learned all of them."
"By extrapolation then, if the people don't speak Jaffa, then there probably aren't that many Jaffa."