Sylvan

Writing System

Wood Elven does not have a written language (at least not one that is extant) and uses the Elven Common script with certain modifications.

Geographical Distribution

Wood Elves, and the Sylvan language they speak, are distributed widely across the West Coast but are dominant in the Green Horn. The Wood Elf Language has not been the official language in any known nation in at least five millennia, although it was the dominant language in Xhethess.

Phonetics

Wood Elven is pronounced as written except as follows:

• r is [ ɾ ], pronounced like the tt in Kitty or little in American speech.
• rr is a trill or rolled R, like in Spanish.
• ss is a laterally lisped s, which does not exist in any real language and is made by hissing through the cheeks.
• l is pronounced [ɬ] and is analogous to l in Icelandic. This can be approximated in English pronunciation by breathing voicelessly through an h sound into an l sound.
• ll is [tɬ], which can be approximated by entering an l sound from a t sound without voice.
• x is [ç], pronounced like a y consonant with no voice or ch in some german dialects.

Spoken by

• Wood Elf