This spell grants the creature you touch the ability to understand any spoken language it hears. Moreover, when the target speaks, any creature that knows at least one language and can hear the target understands what it says.
Tongues appears in System Reference Document 5.1. Text from the SRD 5.1 by Wizards of the Coast, CC BY 4.0.
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Utility 3rd · Divination
Tongues
Cast
1 action
Range
Touch
Duration
1 hour
Save
None
This spell grants the creature you touch the ability to understand any spoken language it hears. Moreover, when the target speaks, any creature that knows at least one language and can hear the target understands what it says.
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Utility 3rd · Divination
Tongues
Cast
1 action
Range
Touch
Duration
1 hour
Save
None
This spell grants the creature you touch the ability to understand any spoken language it hears. Moreover, when the target speaks, any creature that knows at least one language and can hear the target understands what it says.
# Tongues
*3rd-level Divination*
- **Casting time:** 1 act
- **Range:** Touch
- **Components:** V, M (A small clay model of a ziggurat.)
- **Duration:** 1 hr
- **Role:** Utility
- **Source:** System Reference Document 5.1
## Card summary
**Touch.** Creature you touch
**Effect.** Understands any spoken language it hears; any listener understands its speech
**Extras.** Lasts 1 hour
## Description
This spell grants the creature you touch the ability to understand any spoken language it hears. Moreover, when the target speaks, any creature that knows at least one language and can hear the target understands what it says.