Brakic
Brakic1 is a sub-family of the West Wild Mountains languages spoken in northwestern Adynía. It's divided into two branches, namely eastern brakic which includes Lúlkic in the midwestern Wild Mountains on one hand, and western brakic which includes ótanic in the western part of the mountains and keþic in the Lakú Mountains to the west on the other.
Of these, keþic is the most divergent due to centuries of geographic isolation and influence from elven núrakic languages, while the Ótani and Lúlks can understand each other for the most part, sometimes with the aid of a sign language which they share with certain tribes further east.
One notable feature of brakic languages is the use of certain prefixes to indicate the relationships between people, places and objects. For example, adding ke- (gi- in ótanic and hí- in lúlkic) to a personal name means child of someone, e.g. keTarbus means son of Tarbus.
Of these, keþic is the most divergent due to centuries of geographic isolation and influence from elven núrakic languages, while the Ótani and Lúlks can understand each other for the most part, sometimes with the aid of a sign language which they share with certain tribes further east.
One notable feature of brakic languages is the use of certain prefixes to indicate the relationships between people, places and objects. For example, adding ke- (gi- in ótanic and hí- in lúlkic) to a personal name means child of someone, e.g. keTarbus means son of Tarbus.
Writing System
While the Keþíans have adopted a writing system based on a variation of the núrakic alphabet, introduced by Keþírus, founder of their kingdom, nowadays it's generally restricted to mages for writing a different language, Adral. Keþic inscriptions using the adral script are mostly found on old monuments and a few heirlooms used by certain noble families.
1Original icelandic: brakíska.
Root Languages
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