Elvish
From Legonia
The Elven languages belong to the second speech family aside the dwarvish one. So different than the human ones about 50 letters are known which are a lot different to the dwarvish alphabet. The elven tribes know different tongues because they never wrote down their vocabulary and ordinarily teach their children mouth to mouth.
Rare scripts can be found at mages like the elven priests. The oldest writings came from the White elves and are still existing in inscriptions in many ruins near Dragonia Vulcania which are also the oldest evidences of written culture in Legonia.
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Spread of elven languages
Official Use
- Elven Forests (Forest, River, Stone and Shiarasin tribes)
- Moonwood (Shadow elves)
- Ashfields (Fire elves)
Spoken Use
- The northern lands (Middle Kingdom; Outlaw Hills)
- Orlanian lands (Morica and Castallani)
Special tongues
- Shalas'afarith (Old language spoken by the White elves)
- Modern Elvish (Elven Forests; most spreaded)
- Shiarasish (Ahl'shiara region)
- Eastern Elvish (Eastern Continent)
Structure
The many elven dialects are very complex and only true mastern can learn all versions of grammar, time forms and word combinations. Some similarities exists to the ark'tohlian language like the combined words.
Dictionary
| Ahl' | Landscape; place of |
| Ahl'shiara | Land of the Shiarasin; (The jungles south of ELven Forests but also the western mountains Ahl'shiara) |
| Ahs | Innocence; not guilty |
| Erin | God; godly; holy |
| Huminai | Human |
| Shal | River; (moving) Water |
| Shal'ahs'erin'a | "Stream of godly Innocence" ;(The River Shal'ahs'erin'a) |
| Shiara | Jungle; tropical |
| Shiarasin | "Tribe living in jungle"; Shiarasin |
| Sinnae | Tribe; Family, Horde |
Earth related
(The elvish languages of Legonia don't difference to well-known elven speech from modern and classic fantasy so elvish always sounds exotic and like sung.)
