Languages of Fellen

The following list, though incomplete, contains most of the important languages of Fellen and its cosmos.

Mortal Languages
Fellen has many mortal races, most with their own language or dialect. These languages change over time alongside the peoples who speak them. Many scholars curse the gods for blessing the many races with their own languages.

Dwarven Languages
The language of dwarves has undergone many sudden and dramatic changes, resulting in a collection of startlingly different tongues.

Deep Dwarfish
Deep Dwarfish is the language spoken by the most recent stock of Tern's creation. Deep Dwarfish is the most current spoken form of Rune Speak, and Rune Speak is its written form.

Hordish
Hordish is the common tongue of the Nomadic Dwarves, a warrior people known for their exotic mounts and prowess in battle. Hordish has changed little over the centuries, closely resembling an older form of Rune Speak. Rune Speak is its written form.

Mountain Dwarfish
The tongue of the mountain dwarves is both resonate and straightforward. Though there is some dialectal difference, all speakers of Mountain Dwarfish speak a very similar language. Rune Speak is its written form.

Rune Speak
Rune Speak is the common language from which all other forms of dwarvish are derived. Though the written form has never changed, the spoken form of Rune Speak has undergone multiple massive reformations. Each reformation of Rune Speak has been a result of the spoken language being reinvented from scratch as Tern created and set loose a new clutch of dwarves. As each group of dwarves met and began to intermingle, the spoken form of Rune Speak became a combination of the disparate tongues.

Sunken Dwarf
The language of the dwarves isolated during the Great Flooding only marginally resembles any other form of Dwarfish. Long centuries of intermingling with the tongues of the New World have added words and grammar unknown in other forms of Dwarfish. Sunken Dwarf has no written form.

Trade Speak
Trade Speak is the common tongue of the great caravans of the Trader Dwarves. Trade Speak has adopted words and concepts from many other languages, and can function as a trade language in most major cities. Rune Speak is its written form.

Elvish Languages
Elvish speech is derived from the tongue of the Eldar, the first servants of the gods. Each nation of elves is unified by its own divergent form of that ancient language.

Dragaerean
Dragaerean is the primary language spoken within the empire of the Bright Elves. Though each House retains its own secret words, Dragaerean is the language used for all mundane purposes within Dragaeria.

Green Elf
The strongholds of the green elves maintain a single form of speech, despite large geographic separations. The uniformity of their language is maintained by a rigid program of education which encompasses much of their early lives.

Haven
The elves of the Frozen North, known as Moon Elves, speak a language they call Haven. Haven is a blending of Old Elven and the language of the New Gods of the North.

Ixiln
The Sky Elves speak a derivation of Old Elven spoken by refugees who survived an exodus across the Great Barrier. Their language is heavily influenced by Gobble, the language of the goblins who would eventually became the Abdin, and Hrasak-Nar, the language of the Torog-Nar.

Lost Elf
The group of closely related languages spoken by the descendants of the elves who fled the final conflict of the Pillar Wars is known collectively as Lost Elf. These languages retain much of the original Old Elven's grammar and vocabulary, with the addition of a wide range of terminology related to the needs of subterranean life.

Mao-Mer
The language of the Sea Elves is greatly influenced by Aquan, the speech of water elementals. Mao-Mer may be recognized by it use of long series of assonance and the incorporation of some whistles and chitters as exclamations.

Old Elven
Old Elven was gifted to the Primordial Elves by Gaia and Astavar. Old Elven is considered the holy language of the elven peoples. Though it is no longer in common use, Old Elven is still learned by diplomats and historians around the world.

True Speech
The winged elves of the Golden Empire proclaim their language as the one true tongue of creation. Though some will learn other tongues out of need, the True Speech is only spoken by the winged elves and their most powerful servants.

Wild Elf
The bands of wanderers know as wild elves speak a widely varied and branching language. Though their speech has been affected by repeated contact with many cultures, its core components remain unchanged.

Giantish Languages
Before the Fall of Gades, the giantish peoples spoke a variety of unique languages. Most of those languages were lost when the madness took them.

Trollish
Trolls, the ever-living servants of Gades, speak a crisp tongue devoid of idioms.

Warrior's Tongue
The Warrior's Tongue is the ancient spoken language of the ogres. It also served as the language of diplomacy and formal address among all giantish races during the height of their civilization.

Goblin Languages
The languages of goblinkind are many and varied. Though almost every tribe has its own tongue, the major goblinoid language groups are each derived from the spoken tongue of one of the ancient goblin hordes.

Abdin
Abdin is the spoken tongue of the civilized goblins of the Ixiln Empire. The kanji of the Great Swamp is its written form.

Blintish
Blintish is the set of languages spoken by goblin tribes descended from the Great Horde of the South.

Gobble
Gobble is the set of languages spoken by goblin tribes descended from the Rampaging Horde of the East.

Klak
Klak is the language spoken by the two remaining tribes descended from the Lost Horde of the West.

Pidgin
Pidgin is the set of languages spoken by goblin tribes descended from the Terrible Horde of the North.

Halfling Languages
Though halflings often speak the common tongue of the region, the true Halfling language can be found in their homeland.

Halfling
Halflings share a sing-song language heavily influenced by Celestial and Sylvan.

Human Languages
The many tongues of man originate from the tribal language of the first savage humans, given to them during Creation by Erautuen. Though that language has gone through much branching and change, a few root concepts survive in most of its forms. Even two humans who share no common words may be able to communicate basic ideas given time and patience. Though the languages of man are too numerous to list, the following tongues are among the most noteworthy or widely used.

Common
Ancient shared language of the race of man. Little remains of this language, and even the most dedicated of anthropologists and linguists know only a few words.

Emperial
Language spoken by those peoples whose conquests formed the Empire of Man. Now serves as the compulsory trade tongue and court language throughout the Empire of Man.

Esteroni
Trade tongue sharing words common to the seventeen major languages spoken by the Esterman peoples of the Warring States.

Leht-Trahin
Language of the tribal peoples of the frozen wastes of the far south. These tribes have been geographically isolated for much of known history, and their language has diverged further from the ancient Common tongue that any other.

Kuru
Deriving its name from the barbarians who speak it, Kuru is the language of the mountain horsemen of the Great Barrier.

Nordron
Primary language spoken by Norderman peoples of the Great North. Considered part of the cultural heritage of Norderman refugees in other lands.

Sunthron
Common trade tongue among the great theocracies of the southern continent. Highly influenced by Celestial and regional dialects.

Vestron
Primary language spoken by Vosterman peoples along the coast of the Great Sea of the West.

Orcish Languages
The orcs, being both a newer race and geographically secluded, have one of the least diverse language sets of any race. Before the coming of the Dark Gods and the Great War of the North, the orcish peoples had virtually no contact with outsiders.

Ice Tongue
The Arctic Orcs speak a common tongue separate from that of other orcs. Ice tongue has steadily diverged from the main orcish language, though speakers of either language are not yet unintelligible to the other.

Orcish
The vast majority of orckind share a single spoken language and its crude written form. Orcish is a harsh and guttural language which marked by many cases of a change in volume signalling a differentiation in the meaning of a word.

The Blood Tongue
Proven warriors of the orcish nation may learn a tongue secret to the warrior caste and priests of Flam. To be known to speak it is to be recognized as a defender of the orcish people.

Torog Languages
The language of the Torog tribes, originally derived from Aberrant, has been heavily influenced by Sylvan, the elemental tongues, and the unusual vocal capabilities and limitations of Torog anatomy.

Hrasak-Dac
Spoken by the Torog-Dac (those descended from Dac), Hrasak-Dac is the tribal language of many Torog who live in the hill lands south of the Great Swamp.

Hrasak-Nar
Spoken by the Torog-Nar (those descended from Nar), Hrasak-Nar is the tribal language of many Torog who live in the northwestern areas of the Great Swamp.

Torogi
The speech of the Torog varies from tribe to tribe, with many words sharing the same or multiple meanings. Torogi is composed of the commonly shared meanings understood by the majority of Torog tribes.

Trog-Lor
The guttural speech of troglodytes is widely varied, ranging from sophistication to animal-like growlings. Geographically separated tribes often have difficulty communicating.

Triton Languages
Triton and their speech hold mastery of the Greater Seas.

Deepspeek
The triton of the Great Deep are an insular society, and their speech has differentiated greatly from the speech of other tritons.

Eastshore
Eastshore is spoken by those triton who live among the many bays and inland seas along the western shores of the New World continent.

Flowspeek
Flowspeak is an amalgamation of the many triton languages. It is used by travelers, traders, and diplomats, and it is the only triton tongue known to land-dwellers.

Islander
Those triton who dwell among the reefs and atolls of the Great Archipelago speak a language close to the ancient speach of the Triton.

Westshore
Westshore is spoken by those triton who live along the coasts of Dragearea, the Great Swamp, and the eastern coast of the Holy Lands.

Immortal Languages
The immortal creatures of the many planes speak strange and varied words. Some are shaped by bizarre anatomies, a few manifest ancient truths, and others sprang into being from sources unknown. All of the immortal languages are enduring things, used by mortal scholars throughout the ages as enduring forms.

Divine Languages
The gods and their servants speak true and unchanging words. Each of the divine tongues is a record of some act of creation or destruction given utterance. The divine tongues are unchanging testaments to the gods.

Aberrant
Aberrant is a natural expression of the Chaos from which the world was created. Hints of Aberrant may be found between the syllables of a wizard's spells or wafting through rents in reality.

Celestial
Celestial is the true tongue of the Gods. Words spoken in Celestial hold the potential for change, and oths taken in Celestial bind as strongy as steel.

Eldarin
Named for the servants of the Gods which speak it, Eldarin is rarely spoken outside of the divine realms. The will of the Gods is known wherever Eldarin is spoken.

Fiendish
There are beings which still serve and protect what remains of the Forgotten Gods. These beings speak a language that burns the ear and twists the tongue.

Moil
Once a language of men, Moil is now spoken only by those unfortunate beings who dwell within the divine realm of Acerak the Devourer.

Elemental Languages
Each of the prime elements imposes its own order upon creation. Each of these orders contains within it the an expression of the world as viewed by elemental beings.

Aquan
Aquan is the language born of the element of Water. Its words and meaning are conveyed by the pitch and length of sounds. Aquan is spoken across the Plane of Water, throughout its co-terminus planes, and among the wise of the material worlds' oceans.

Auran
Auran is the language native to the element of Air. Communication in Auran is a combination of whistles and soft consonants. Auran is spoken across the Plane of Air, throughout its co-terminus planes, and by the followers and priests of gods of the sky.

Formas
Formas is a collection of commonalities between the many languages emerging from the Plane of Positive Energy. Most natives of the Positive Energy Plane understand Formas well enough to allow communication.

Funus
Funus is the agreed upon method of communication between the survivors of the Plane of Negative Energy. Most enduring natives of the Negative Energy Plane speak or understand Funus.

Ignan
Ignan is spoken by the creatures of the element of Fire. Ignan is a mouth-bending language composed of consonant clusters and elongated vowel sounds. Ignan is spoken across the Plane of Fire, throughout its co-terminus planes, and by fire worshippers.

Terran
Terran is the language originating from the element of Earth. Terran is a formed from combinations of percussive signals and varied tones which carry well solid surfaces. Terran is spoken across the Plane of Earth, throughout its co-terminus planes, and by sages in the deep paces of the world.

Other Elemental Languages
Entities originating from the para-elemental and quasi-elemental planes speak languages which are amalgamations of the languages above, combining their forms, gramars, vocabularies, and concepts into a language unique forms of communication. A creature can speak and understand these languages by learning them individually or by knowing all of the contributing languages.

Natural Languages
Much like the elemental languages, those creatures who existance is an extension of the natural order or a divine act of creation spring into existence with understanding of a shared form of communication.

Draconic
Draconic is the language of dragons and the holy language of the Priests of Pyros. Draconic is an arcane tongue, and many of its forms are mirrored in the shifting cyphers used by wizards to encode their spells.

Sylvan
Those creatures who embody aspects of the natural world share a tongue both subtle and complex. It is said that all things born of nature can be named in the tongue of the fae.

Otherworldly Languages
The world of Fellen is not the only world forged from the Chaos of Creation. The other worlds, large or small, strange or mundane, each have their own inhabitants with languages sometimes bizarre, sometimes almost recognizable. .

Shade
Commonly believed to be an elemental language, Shade is actually the language common to the creatures native to Umbra, the demi-world of shadows, a darkly reflected image of the mortal world.