Languages

## Elder Languages

Languages that have been around for well over 100,000 years with there being a number of speakers, some even being cross-realm like Draconic and Tanistumoric.

### Tanistumoric

Spoken most commonly by elementals and shares similarities with Eldamati. Other than for communication between elementals, Tanistumoric is used in spellcasting by practitioners of elemental magics as well as witches in their spellcasting.

**Spoken:** a combination of guttural sounds in the back of ones throat and high pitched whining almost like a quick and sharp breeze, it is the most difficult language for non-native speakers to learn as it often requires a very specific set of pipes to be able to pull off.

**Written:** in its written form Tanistumoric consists of sharp runic letters resembling the thing they are describing, such as the rune for a tree is a line with two forks near the end and three forks at the bottom resembling roots.

### Eldmati

Spoken mostly by elves and their descendants, it is used in conjunction with Tanistumoric in elemental and witch spellcasting.

**Spoken:** it is a gentle and flowy sort of language with many high tones combined with small facial changes in order to convey the speakers meaning with the most important part being what ones face gives to the context of what they're saying. It is known for elves to take long periods of time to think before they speak, really mulling over something before speaking their mind on it or giving an answer to a question asked days ago.

**Written:** in it's written form Eldmati closely resembles the written language of Licaius due to Licaius being heavily derived from it, it is filled with curves and curls with soft lines and gentle, barely perceivable markings.

**Runes:** a subtype of its written form but much older than the more modernized written form of Eldmati, Eldmati runes have many circles and curved lines like the rune for sun being a circle with three curved lines going through it horizontally.

There are many differing dialects of eldmati, these being the most well known:

* **Laimin** - spoken by most sky elves, flowy like honey wine with a reliance on flowery wording.
* **Qo** - spoken by qo (forest) elves, more gravelly and harsh.
* **Sudai'in** - spoken by y'ro elves, it is much shorter and blunter but also involves various hand signals.

### Dwarven

Spoken mainly by dwarves and used in dwarven runic magic.

**Spoken:** gentle with soft throat sounds and the occasionally hum, it is by far the easiest of the elder languages to learn when you had not been taught it at a young age.

**Written:** dwarven is mainly a spoken language with its only written form being its runes.

**Runes:** completely the opposite of its spoken form, the runes are sharp, harsh, and often jagged but clean in appearance. An example of a dwarven rune is the dwarven rune for sharp which is a diagonal line with three lines going through it horizontally and each of the lines ends connecting back at the center of the diagonal line.

There are many differing dialects of dwarven, these being the most well known:

* **Lestel** - spoken mainly by steel dwarves, it has a more drawlly sound with many words being shortened.
* **Signam** - dialect of magnesium dwarves, it is very short and harsh sounding.
* **Dlard** - spoken primarily by gold dwarves, it is elegant and sweet sounding almost like eldmati.
* **Revilis** - the most common dialect spoken by silver dwarves.
* **Mantine** - spoken mainly by adamantine dwarves, softly-spoken and to the point.

### Sachket

Spoken by noids; giants, orcs, trolls, and cyclops; with no written form but a runic form similar to that of Dwarven runes.

**Spoken:** a harsher language with lots of guttural k, g, and uh sounds it is unique in that the pronunciation of a smaller creature attempting to speak it will often be somewhat incorrect but understandable to the discerning noid, this is because a key part of the language is the loud and deep sounds larger creatures like the noid's are able to make.

**Runes:** Sachket runes are jagged with many intricate, crossing lines. An example of a Sachket rune is the rune for strength which is two triangles crossing over in their centers with smaller triangles within them.

### Draconic

Spoken by dragons but also used in spellcasting by wizards and sorcerers.

**Spoken:** draconic utilizes the dragons long multi-channel throat with many words requiring one to switch between passages in order to get the desired sound. Single-throated creatures will find it extremely difficult to properly speak draconic but spellcasters using draconic in incantations have figured out a way to bypass the pronunciation issues.

**Runes:** Draconic runes are thin and wiry often with three elements combined together at once in order to create the desired word and how it would be properly pronounced by a dragon.

### Celestial

Spoken by those whom inhabit the ether as well as the various deities of the realms, it is complex with various iterations in which tone and pitch can differ what one is saying though it is generally understood by all who speak it no matter the accent.

### Sevell

The core langauge of the Seven Hells with different pronunciations depending on the exact layer of the hells the speaker is from.

### Mij'laha

Mij'laha is an alphabetical set of runes and symbols through which words are formed by connecting the letters into a single rune or symbol, this form of Mij'laha is known as Mij'laha'sek. There is another form of Mij'laha where the runes and symbols are arranged into words and sentances vertically, this form of Mij'laha is known as Mij'laha'vek.

## Modern Languages

### Common

* **Licaius**: the Most widely spoken language on the realm of Xaekla, it is a combination of Eldmati and each of the major langauges of the main continents; Lasmerian, kilvarian, Emberamian, and Undvar.
* **Leath**: spoken by gnomes and spirit creatures, it is a fast paced and complex language reflecting those that are native speakers.
* **Lasmerian**: spoken within the Lasmerian empire on the continent of Nibar.
* Kilvarian spoken in the Kilvarian empire on the continent of Nibar.
* **Emberi**: spoken in the Emberamian empire on the contient of Miques.
* **Undvar**: spoken on the continent of Ravera, the most recently created of the modern languages and formed due to the displacement of the various peoples of Ravera after the Undead war.

## Trivia

* There are hundreds of other langauges which are lesser known such as the language of the Tuarians and several sub-languages like the Sudmati of the sun elves or the Orcish of Sachket.