Euluska

The language **Euluska**, known by the exonym *Luskan*, was a Swordic language, closely related to Cleric and Fallonese, that evolved beginning in the Luskan Peninsula very early on. It was a lovely unique language of melody and sound. It is also the most fleshed out language I have and my **pride and joy**.

## Name List

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cy3vgm9cIHSIiAmh5vRdrtwgRyN7m-vmyR26CKB5bVI/edit?usp=sharing

## Grammar

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bHTCVEyvBjZfS2u0GEhNufNFdY4orgKJMb6WDbqHOvE/edit?usp=sharing

## Vocab

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12PQMpg4l9maBGp1scbUPi43xgY57jet1vP\_6qHK4eb0/edit?usp=sharing

## Origins and Use

It grew out of the peninsula as the language of the Luskan (Native) people, and spread throughout the world with the Lusken Empire's conquest. It also heavily influenced Faerunian, and was used the world over.

## Technical Stuff

It was a simple yet highly agglutinative language, but also fairly regular - core words were not affected much by their prefixes and suffixes, and word order was fairly clear. It had no concept of grammatical gender, and indeed, little concept of gender at all. There were no specific words for 'he or she', 'man or woman', 'mother or father', and so on, just 'they', 'person', 'parent' etc.

You can find my grammar spreadsheet here and my vocab sheet on Languages.

## Script and Alphabet

The Euluska script was a curling and flowing one developed alongside the invention of tablets and later parchment, allowing for elaborate spiralling and flourishing letters. Its alphabet, known as Adeve (from the first three or four letters) was as follows:

* **a, d, v, e, f, h, k, l, m i, y, n, o, s, t, w, x, u, p, r, z**
* *ah, deh, veh, eh, fah, hih, kah, lah, mah, ih, yah, nah, oh, sah, tuh, wuh, xeh, uh, pah, reh, zah*
* Ꮘ Ꮑ Ꮕ Ꭷ Ꮊ Ꮖ Ꮶ Ꮭ Ꮩ Ꮁ Ꮺ Ꮨ Ꮻ Ꮳ Ꮣ Ꮜ Ꮛ Ꮗ Ꮅ Ꮬ Ᏹ

There were no B's, C's, G's, J's or Q's in Luskan usually, except loanwords.

However, In some older texts, the letter **v** was sometimes written with **b,** and the soft **k** might be represented with **g**.

A pair of dots above the second vowel in a pair of vowels (known in Euluska as **totiti /** ᏓᏫᏓᎱᏓᎱ) marked that the two vowels should be pronounced separately.

## Examples

See the North Wind and the Sun or The King and the God.

## Dialects & Accents

Euluska had many dialects the world over, blending with the local tongues. There were some notable features of certain accents though:

* Peninsula Euluska, sometimes called the *Homeland* dialect, often had some sibilants become fricatives; think of a Spanish accent.
* The Euluska accent in the Fallo (not the Fallonese language) had a characteristic lilt in its intonation; think of a Welsh accent. It was called the Gold Coast Dialect.
* Lakayan Euluska often drew out vowels longer and made less distinction between voiced and unvoiced, like Larawiyaki; think of Kanienʼkéha or Nehiyaw.
* The Euluska spoken in the Vortic Isles was grazing and guttural yet poetically tinged with Vortais, like a French accent.
* Danderillonian Euluska accents were less strong, but sometimes tinged with Limba Vrei, sounding eastern European sometimes, but also with hints of Scandinavianesque Rakki.

Some examples:

 Eulúska
 Ŵlyska
 Elusga
 Eulusqu'a
 Elluska