Draconic
The language of the dragons is ancient. In predates the First Breaking when the dragons first entered Realmspace. It has changed surprisingly little over time, even if it has picked up the occasional loan-word for things new to the dragons. But for the most part, draconic has simply translated concepts into very literal versions of the meaning.
Dragonborn
The dragonborn speak versions of draconic, heavily mixed with other languages in the region where they live. They can understand more ancient draconic with a bit of effort, but their accent is very distinct to those who know the language properly. In the reverse, they are prone to use words from Draconic in normal speech when they are feeling nostalgic or during ceremonies.Writing System
Draconic arrived with its own runes that were made to be clawed into a rock. They have evolved to form more elegant scripts which are often used for arcane notes.
Syntax
Draconic follows a subject-object-verb structure and favours phrases with few component words and long paragraphs with many sentences. That said, it builds a lot of compound words, which means that each of the words in that sentence might be very long. For instance, adjectives are added as suffixes to its noun. And draconic is very fond of its adjectives.
Vocabulary
Phonetics
Draconic has a lot of plosives, fricatives and stops. Vowels are often wide and pronounced at the back of the mouth. This makes it sound somewhat like a snapping viper. Those without a dragon's, or dragonborn's, mouth can find it hard to pronounce a lot of the sounds as quickly as is intended for the speech to sound natural.
Unvoiced consonants can never stand without being followed or preceded by a vowel, but (unvoiced)V(voiced) or the reverse is quite common.
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