I believe they means horde pandas and alliance pandas can talk to each other. And horde dracthyr can talk to alliance dracthyr.
Although ive never checked in game to see if thats accurate or not.
That makes a lot more sense to me.
Yep.
You press your chat bubble, switch the language, and talk in say.
It is, I get a kick out of seeing folks talk back in common.
You can guess which side I’m on 
Edit: If you’re a mage with the passive, you will understand but be unable to talk back.
Youre an alliance panda
Theres a middle child?
They started out speaking the same language though. The dialect would be different, but they’d stay close to the same.
[Furbolg]: “Hey, anyone speak Furbolg here?”
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Pandaren on alliance and Horde can speak to each other.
Dracthyr on alliance and Horde can speak to each other.
The way you wrote it before sounded like Pandaren can talk to Dracthyr each in their own language.
… it’s the exact same situation.
Nightborne (and Blood Elves) and Night Elves spoke the same language. Night Elves still speak the same language, while Blood Elves/Nightborne developed their own dialect.
It’s unrealistic to think they can’t understand each other.
No one ever replies to me when i try to talk to them in that language 
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I think it’d be interesting if maybe there was a toy or item in the game that would allow Night Elves to understand and speak Shalassian, and Nightborne for Darnassian, under the pretext that it’s basically the exact same language with a few differences in dialect. Kind of like French and Canadian French, or English and American English.
The language choices available to player characters are governed by lore. That is why it must be considered when we discuss why certain races have limitations to the languages they speak and comprehend.
I think what should be considered, especially after Dragonflight, is if a system like this still has any place in World of Warcraft, particularly if close cross-faction relations are going to be the norm going forward.
Technically all elven languages are the same root and just different dialects. They use a lot of the same words and sentence structure.
They could probably figure out eachothers language
Just gonna point out, that at best, english speakers could go back 400 years at most and still understand people speaking “english”. 10,000 years is a long time for a language to drift when there is no interaction.
How Far Back in Time Could an English Speaker Go and Still Communicate Effectively? - YouTube
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And unlike pandaren night elves can live for 10 years. No reason nightborn and night elves wouldn’t speak the same language.
Humans are mortal race who are lucky to live 100 years.
There is no evidence to suggest Tyrande forgot how to speak the language she spoke 10k years ago.
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And I can tell you from personal experience, that American English is quite different now to what it was in the 90s. In 10,000 years, yeah even night elves are speaking completely different languages.
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Not really. It’s fully comprehensible. there might be some new slang and some slang may have been phased out. But going back to middle english is partially understandable to modern day. Like Shakespear is early modern and fully understandable from a long time ago. And no one from Shakespear’s time is alive today.
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You’re missing the point, in 30 years, you have a lot of small changes to a language just among those that speak. Linguistic drift isn’t something that happens sporadically. Linguistic drift never stops. Words are constantly having new uses added to them, having their definitions changed, new words being created, all within the life span of 1 generation.
Let’s look at the word Adult. In 30 years, it went from being only a noun, to being a noun and a verb, even if the verb usage is slang. 10,000 years is a long time for a language to drift without contact. There is no shot that 2 groups of people without any contact with each other can still use that language to communicate anymore.
In short, in 10,000 years, words and meanings while having a root base would have changed so much between the 2 groups that even if they know what the word used to be 10,000 years ago, it doesn’t mean the same thing to either language anymore.
Edit: Also let’s be realistic here. Most people can’t remember the details of last week, and you expect someone thousands of years old to have perfect memory of how the language was 10,000 years ago? Seriously?
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