Dwarvish

Konmál

Austumál

Mýrrmál

Urdunnir

### Spoken in

Archfjord, Austadion, Balonhold, Coldkeep, Eastmarch, Frosthien, Mornhind's Range, Thrakinhold, Thundering Mountains, Undine Peaks

### Spoken by

DwarvesDal in Dwarf Lands

Dwarvish or Dwarven is the name for a family of languages use by dwarves. The dwarves called their own language Málrun, but most other races use that term to refer to the runic alphabet in which the language is written.

Dwarvish is found all over Aroura inscribed into weapons, buildings and mystical items.

The language followed dwarves all over Aroura and beyond, making it an extremely widespread language. Communities and races that have been separated for some time evolved their own dialects.

The Language uses the Run Alphabet.

## History

Originating from the ancient Eldask language, Dwarvish saw many incarnations and variations.

Although once a strong and exclusive language, actual Dwarvish words only make up a fraction of the words used by dwarves today. Many dwarves tend to speak common littered with Dwarvish words. Dwarven record-keepers and historians are among the few left that could speak whole verses in pure Dwarvish.

## Dialects

Being such an old language, Dwarvish has been subject to various changes over the generations and has spawned numerous dialects. All of these dialects employ Run as their written alphabet.

### Nordmál

Nordmál is the oldest dialect of Dwarvish, and closest to the Eldask language of all dwarvish dialects. This dialect shows little influence from the elves and the Dal. Spoken by Stone dwarves hailing from Archenfjord, Nordmál is very heavy with rolled R's and many compound Consonants sounds.

### Frostmál

This dialect is similar to Nordmal but with emphasized vowels, Frostmál is usually spoken slowly so that words can be understood through the snowstorms that are all to common on the Glaciers. This dialect is spoken by the Ice Dwarves.

Urdunnir dwarves used an older version of Frostmál, that more closely resembled the language in its early years

### Konmál

Spoken in the middle and Southern kingdoms, Konmál is the most common dialect of dwarvish. its also the dialect spoken by most other races who speak dwarvish. This dialect puts less emphasis on the vowels and has much more Elvish influence to the fluidity of its words..

### Austumál

Austumál is the Dialect of Dwarvish spoken in Dwarf lands east of the Elvish Empires. Spoken by korobokuru,, the dialect ignores hard consonant sounds taking heavy influence from Shizou.

### Mýrrmál

The Dialect of Dwarvish spoken by the bog dwarves has been highly effected by the Dal, with nazally vowls and exagerated sounds, Mýrrmál has a very distinct sound to it, and includes words from the Dal.

### Duergan

Spoken by Duergar Duergan originated from Konmál, the dialect of the Thundering Mountains. Since the split Duergan has changed dramatically, leaving it as one of the most altered Dwarvish dialects. The Drow and Illithid influences in this dialect are hard to ignore, having altered its vocabulary and grammatical structure.

Writing system

All Dwarvish languages use a runic script known as Run. Run runes are rarely written on paper or cloth due to the short life and fragile nature of such materials. Runes are usually carved or scraped into stone or metal, be it the walls of a building or the blade of a sword.

Dwarvish is seldom written using vowels as its mostly made of root words the vowels are assumed as per the context of the writing.