Archipelegian

The language of the Kingdom of Eversea, now the Drowned Islands, and of the Seachosen refugees who fled the floods, is a twelve-letter alphabet that uses accents and embellishments to create the forty-eight distinct sounds found in the language as a whole.

Writing System

The twelve basic letters of the language are formed with single lines, variously curved or angled. Two types of accents (a horizontal line or a circular dot) can be added above each letter, each of which represents a slightly altered pronunciation. In addition, a small hook may be added to the bottom of the letter indicating that it must be pronounced doubled. Not all letters can have a hook double, but vowels can have an accent occuring with them, an angled nearly vertical line, that indicates a tongue flutter is to be used as well as the duplicate pronunciation.

Phonology

The language is compused of twelve basic sounds that are altered by various types of accenting. Most of the language uses the base sounds or their 'flat accent' counterparts, but vowels especially tend to take advantage of the 'sharp accent' sounds and duplication. Tongue-flutter is characteristic of mostly per-Starfall Archipelegian and currently used only in traditional ballad singing or in some names.

Spoken by

• Seachosen