Elfin-Tongue [EFT]
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[Deactivated User] on 2 March 2020
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Elfin-Tongue
Descendants of the wind, come close and sing to us! Reveal to us the mysteries that we cannot hope to discover!
How the giants wish they could see as we do!
Twenty-five letters gifted by the Splendid Ancestors, handed down in great strings as the leaves of weeping willows gently sweep o'er the ground.
Birthed, maybe involuntarily, from minds almost incomprehensible.
O Great Ones, protect us and watch over us, just as carefully as you do so to those on the ground and below!
For we are your closest kin, born of you, clothed in you, caring for you.
FromSoftware inspired artlang, where I build a world through only the descriptions of words. Almost every word has a description, and I plan on compiling these in articles sorted by relevance to certain topics. For example, there may be an article on religion, or species origin, or any other sort of thing that can be revealed by certain descriptions.
I won't be revealing anything except for what's quoted in the Notes section. This is an experimental language, after all!
How the giants wish they could see as we do!
Twenty-five letters gifted by the Splendid Ancestors, handed down in great strings as the leaves of weeping willows gently sweep o'er the ground.
Birthed, maybe involuntarily, from minds almost incomprehensible.
O Great Ones, protect us and watch over us, just as carefully as you do so to those on the ground and below!
For we are your closest kin, born of you, clothed in you, caring for you.
FromSoftware inspired artlang, where I build a world through only the descriptions of words. Almost every word has a description, and I plan on compiling these in articles sorted by relevance to certain topics. For example, there may be an article on religion, or species origin, or any other sort of thing that can be revealed by certain descriptions.
I won't be revealing anything except for what's quoted in the Notes section. This is an experimental language, after all!
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | s | ʃ | ʒ | h | |||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | |||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | i | [u]1 | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Open | a | |||||
| Polyphthongs | eɪ |
- Used only to end verbs in romanization, allophone of /u/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Elfin-Tongue. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Elfin-TongueOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/k/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ |
| Jj/ʒ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɹ/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ |
| Tt/t/ | TH th/θ/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/u/ | Yy/ɪ/ | Zz/t͡s/ | Ææ/eɪ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
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