Old Northern Tongue
The Old Northern Tongue, also "Ogledd Danuvoi" is the language spoken by the people of Yr Hen Ogledd, the Old North region known to most as the Sixteen Peaks of Peryknos.
It is noticably very different linguistically from the dialects of Umbraen Elvish spoken in the Kingdom of Darklight and many scholars at the Academia Ars Magicka et Mundana debate hotly the origin of the Old Tongue.
What anyone can see and hear plainly is that its quite unique and not much like any other elven tongue, having more in common with some of the Languages spoken farther east and west of the Great Cavern of Aman-ya by the manfolk of those regions.
Sample of terms within the Old Northern Tongue, each first in the form commonly used by speakers of Umbraen Elvish and secondly in their ancestral form:
It is noticably very different linguistically from the dialects of Umbraen Elvish spoken in the Kingdom of Darklight and many scholars at the Academia Ars Magicka et Mundana debate hotly the origin of the Old Tongue.
What anyone can see and hear plainly is that its quite unique and not much like any other elven tongue, having more in common with some of the Languages spoken farther east and west of the Great Cavern of Aman-ya by the manfolk of those regions.
Sample of terms within the Old Northern Tongue, each first in the form commonly used by speakers of Umbraen Elvish and secondly in their ancestral form:
- Ogledd Danuvoi / Ogledd Danu-voi = of the Northern Folk
- Yr Henn Ogledd = The Old North
- Taislenn / T'ai Slenn = Cliffside Temple
- Dolenrock / Dol'enn-roch = Oppressive Ruler / Misery Ruler
- Yr-tewynneshai / Yr Te’wynn Esh’ai = The Thousand Daughters of the White Witch
- Bodrao-wynnach'ai = Concealed Witch-Blade