Elvish

Elvish is the formal form of elven, primarily used in legal works and speech-making. Informal elven usually falls into the four kindred dialects: Aldri, Kindish, Marumi and Fentish, the languages of the Steadfast , Kindled , Flowing and Vagabond respectively.
Aldri (Steadfast elven) is clear and precise, as conservative and inflexible as dwarvern. High elven script is regarded, philosophically as the building blocks of elven culture. It is written in lines from right to left, like all elven scripts, but starting at the bottom of the page and working up, like a construction building up from its foundations. Its characters are regular and precise, each character and space taking up the same width.
The other dialects have drifted much further from their roots, borrowing words from other cultures and inventing new ones at need. Kindish (the Vagabond dialect) is musical and sussurating, with a syntax that takes second place to musicality. The Marumi dialect of the Flowing favours a bold and strident delivery capable of carrying across a deck during a storm. The sylvani and squali scripts run right to left, but are written from the top of the page to the bottom. Character widths can vary, and the letters themsevles are more flowing, with loops and curves.
Fentish (the Kindled dialect) uses a soft, but carrying intonation, allowing it to be used over considerable distances underground. The ash Elves use dwarvern glyphs in place of elven scripts, and have a lot of dwarvern loan words and syllabic pronunciations, but their language is elvish in vocabulary, grammar and syntax.