Vallaran†

In some cases, long vowels would be marked with an apex (apex, –picis), which resembled an acute accent mark.
The earliest Vallaran inscriptions are rendered in the Fridian alphabet. An 8^th or 9^th century stone border marker, deliniating the border between Vallaran and Merillic lands read "ϺΛ ꝹLLRꝹ1 ↃↅP/ↃLLΛ 1RLLꝹ1 ↃↅP" (Hic Vallārium est/Illic Merillium est; Here is Vallarium/There is Merillium). The Vallaran alphabet would be adopted sometime during the 10^th century, and was derived from the eastern Tira Vellan alphabet, adopted from Tratian settlers. The reason for the orthographic switch is unknown, but may have been because the Tira Vellan alphabet was better equipped to write Vallaran, or maybe it was adopted as a sort of national project to distance themselves from their more powerful Fridian neighbours. Today, the Vallaran alphabet is used to write most languages of Eussis, several Serrenic and Dvekmenic languages, and has been adapted to write Elvish.
Vallaran split around the 15^th or 16^th century, with the form of Vallaran spoken in the region of Dacia splitting from the form spoken within the Varaso Kingdom. When Dacia was conquered by Varas in the early 18^th century, the two languages were still classed by the Varasos as forms of Vallaran (Varaso Vallaran and Dacian Vallaran, which later became simply referred to as Varaso and Dacian, hence the name change of Vallaran to Varaso despite the cultural and political continuity between the two), but by this point their level of mutual intelligibility was questionable. There were efforts to force the Dacians to use "proper" Varaso Vallaran, but bilingualism was common, and following the independence of Dacia in 2353, use of Varaso has declined in favour of the native Dacian.

Vallaran

LINGVA VALLARANA
(Lingua Vallarāna)

Pronunciation: [ˈlɪŋgʷa u̯al.laˈraːna]
Ethnicity: Vallarans
Language Family:
Continental

• Elicic
• Vallaro-Altic
• Vallaran