Rengardt

**Rengardt** was the language of the ancient Rengarth and Angarth barbarian tribes, who lived a nomadic life under the flying cities of High Netheril. Although the language remained without a script for a long period of its existence, the schism that led to the creation of the Angarth tribe by members of the Rengarth led to a new dialect and unique ancient script.

## Speakers & Legacy

Rengardt was spoken by the ancient Rengarth people who lived in lands that would go on to be absorbed into the Netherese Empire. Despite the cutural differences between the magic-fearing barbarians and the Netherese, the Rengarth existed within the Empire with large amounts of autonomy- resisting the influence of the Low Netherese language. Around -1372 DR however, a schism occurred when some among the tribe began to practice magic like their Netherese neighbors, leading to their exodus and the formation of the Angarth tribe. Though this split would also lead to the two different dialects forming, these dialects were mutually intelligible and only differed in the fact that Angardt had more words for magical concepts and also used a unique script.

Many speakers of the Rengardt language perished after the fall of the Netherese Empire, either due to the catastrophe itself or the chaos that followed. The Rengarth had begun to leave their homelands in groups once the land they lived upon had begun the process of becoming a lifeless desert, but the destruction of High Netheril and the following conflicts forced the rest of the Rengardt to migrate to the region now called The Ride. There they would eventually become the Eraka people, and the Rengardt language died in favor of the new Erakic tongue. The Angarth instead migrated to the swamps of the Tunlands, where they become known as the Tunlar. Though they continue to use their unique script, they speak a linguistic descendant of Angarth known as Tunlaric.

## Dialects

The dialects of Rengardt are as follows:

* **True Regardt**, which is called such due to it being the original form of the language spoken by the Rengarth tribes.
* **Angardt**, which was spoken by the Angarth tribe and was influenced by both the languages of the Netherese and the Elves. Angardt utilizes its own script.

## Script

Like many languages of the High Ulutim family, Rengardt is primarily an oral language with no script. Even after being absorbed into the Netherese Empire, the Rengarth barbarians never adopted the Iokharic script of Netheril. It wasn't until around -1372 DR that some speakers of the language began to practice arcane magic, and thus needed to start using a written script. Angarth diviners, taking inspiration from both the Iokharic and Espruar scripts, made a script of their own. This language, though it appears runic in nature, was made entirely by the Angarth mages as opposed to having roots in the complicated Dethek script.

## Appendix

### Connections

* **Waelic**
	+ Waelan | Cosh | Druidic
* **Ulou**
	+ **Netherese**
	+ **High Ulutim**
		- Uluik | Ulutiun
	+ **Low Ulutim**
	+ **Chardic**
		- Damaran | Easting
	+ **Central Thorass**
	+ **North Thorass**
		- Auld Tharian | Tharian | Zhentarim Argot
	+ **East Thorass**
		- Aglarondan | Telpi
	+ Turmic
* **Chessan**
	+ **Chessentic**
		- Auld Chessic | Thresk | Chessentan | Alambit
	+ **Akalaic**